Stra­ta

We pro­vide advice in the fol­low­ing areas:

Gen­er­al stra­ta advice includ­ing:

• prepa­ra­tion of com­mon prop­er­ty rights by-laws and gen­er­al man­age­ment by-laws
• pre­lim­i­nary advice as to poten­tial claims under the rel­e­vant legislation
• prepa­ra­tion and advice in rela­tion to build­ing man­age­ment or facil­i­ties ser­vices man­age­ment state­ments and stra­ta man­age­ment statements
• prepa­ra­tion and advice in rela­tion to clean­ing agree­ments, concierge agree­ments, secu­ri­ty agree­ments, man­age­ment agree­ments and oth­er ser­vices agreements
• prepa­ra­tion and advice in rela­tion to licence agree­ments and access deeds for neigh­bour­ing development
• prepa­ra­tion of con­sol­i­da­tion of by-laws
• prepa­ra­tion of motions for all aspects of stra­ta and com­mu­ni­ty management
• advice in rela­tion to the enforce­ment of by-laws and statements
• advice in rela­tion to meet­ing pro­ce­dures, proxy require­ments, motions and resolutions
• advice to Build­ing Man­age­ment Committees
• advice as to ease­ments, leas­ing and licens­ing in stra­ta schemes
• advice in rela­tion to changes of use, devel­op­ment appli­ca­tions and own­ers corporation’s con­sent issue
• advice in rela­tion to Com­pa­ny Title Schemes, Mem­o­ran­dums of Asso­ci­a­tion and Arti­cles of Association

Stra­ta disputes:

Act­ing in all juris­dic­tions in respect of stra­ta dis­putes in the NSW Civ­il and Admin­is­tra­tive Tri­bunal and Supreme Court of New South Wales including:

• mak­ing and defend­ing claims for breach of duty to main­tain and repair com­mon prop­er­ty under sec­tion 106 of the Stra­ta Schemes Man­age­ment Act 2015 includ­ing asso­ci­at­ed claims for loss and damage
• mak­ing and defend­ing claims for unau­tho­rised works to com­mon property
• mak­ing and defend­ing claims for com­pul­so­ry stra­ta man­age­ment under sec­tion 237 of the Act
• mak­ing or defend­ing claims for unrea­son­able with­hold­ing of con­sent to by-laws
• by-law dis­putes, penal­ty notices and applications
• sec­tion 88K ease­ment applications

Build­ing Defects claims and con­struc­tion includ­ing:

• advice as to applic­a­bil­i­ty of Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act and accom­pa­ny­ing reg­u­la­tions to reme­di­al works
• advice as to and prepa­ra­tion of build­ing con­tracts and/​or con­sul­tan­cy agree­ments in respect of reme­di­al works 
• mak­ing and defend­ing claims for breach­es of statu­to­ry war­ran­ty under the Home Build­ing Act 1989 for build­ing defects
• mak­ing and defend­ing claims for breach­es of statu­to­ry duty of care under Part 4 of the Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020
• mak­ing home­own­ers war­ran­ty insur­ance claims 
• dis­pute res­o­lu­tion in all areas of dispute
• advice as to and prepa­ra­tion of motions for devel­op­ment approval
• advice on ter­mi­na­tion of build­ing contracts
• mat­ters under SOPA (Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try Secu­ri­ty of Pay­ment Act) 1999

Stra­ta Renew­al and Stra­ta termination

• act­ing for own­ers cor­po­ra­tions and/​or devel­op­ers in respect of col­lec­tive sales or rede­vel­op­ments of stra­ta schemes under Part 10 of the Stra­ta Schemes Devel­op­ment Act 2015
• act­ing for lot own­ers as dis­sent­ing own­ers under Part 10 of the Stra­ta Schemes Devel­op­ment act 2015
• act­ing for lot own­ers as a col­lab­o­ra­tive group prepar­ing own­ers col­lab­o­ra­tive agree­ments, mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing, spe­cial con­di­tions for agency agree­ments, call option deeds
• appear­ing in Land and Envi­ron­ment Court of NSW for Part 10 pro­ceed­ings on behalf of all parties
• appli­ca­tions for ter­mi­na­tion of stra­ta schemes under Part 9 of the Stra­ta Schemes Devel­op­ment Act 2015

Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2015

Advice in all areas of appli­ca­tion of the Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2015 including:

• appli­ca­tion of the Act and reg­u­la­tions to your reme­di­al build­ing works
• whether your reme­di­al build­ing works require devel­op­ment approval
• engage­ment of appro­pri­ate practitioners
• as to the process and require­ments for the NSW Plan­ning Portal
• as to the Res­i­den­tial Apart­ment Build­ings (Com­pli­ance and Enforce­ment) Act 2020
• as to the issu­ing of Build­ing Works Rec­ti­fi­ca­tion Orders by the Build­ing Com­mis­sion NSW

Stra­ta Devel­op­ment:

• advice in rela­tion to the struc­tur­ing and con­fig­u­ra­tion of mixed-use devel­op­ments (com­mer­cial, retail and res­i­den­tial) includ­ing green field sites, brown field sites and expan­sion of cur­rent developments
• draft­ing sec­tion 88B instru­ments to accom­pa­ny com­mu­ni­ty title, stra­tum and stra­ta plans of subdivision
• draft­ing doc­u­ments to cre­ate ease­ments and restric­tions on use of land sub­se­quent to the cre­ation of a com­mu­ni­ty title or stra­ta title scheme
• draft­ing bespoke Com­mu­ni­ty Man­age­ment State­ments and Stra­ta Man­age­ment State­ments to reflect the place mak­ing desired of the developer
• draft­ing bespoke by-laws to reflect the place mak­ing desired of the developer
• advice in rela­tion to lim­i­ta­tions and options of the devel­op­er dur­ing the ini­tial period.

Use­ful Links

• NSW | Fair Trading
• The Law Soci­ety of NSW | Stra­ta Title
• Own­ers Cor­po­ra­tion Network