Question: A media company wants to install advertising monitors in our lobbies for free, so is that something our strata committee can approve on its own, or does it need formal owners corporation sign-off?
We’ve been offered free installation of monitors in our lobbies by a media company. They’d carry building notices at no cost to the owners corporation, but they’d also display advertising. We want to know whether our strata committee can approve this and inform owners, or whether the owners corporation needs to formally approve it via a general meeting.
Answer: The strata committee can generally approve this itself unless it involves enhancing or licensing the common property.
Between general meetings, the strata committee is the owners corporation. It may make decisions on behalf of the owners corporation unless there is a specific matter in the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (the Act) that requires a general meeting. Such items include adding to or enhancing the common property (section 108) and licensing common property to a third party (section 112), both requiring a special resolution.
On a leased, temporary basis, the installation of the monitors is unlikely to be classed as an enhancement to the common property. Therefore, you could request a copy of the agreement that is to be put in place for the monitors. If there is licensing of common property for the space the monitor will utilise, a special resolution may be required.
If neither of the above applies, the strata committee is entitled to authorise the monitors in its own capacity.
This post appears in the October 2026 edition of The NSW Strata Magazine.
Hugh McCormack
McCormacks Strata Management
E: Hugh.McCormack@mccormacks.com.au
P: 1300 991 825
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