Question: To get my bike to the road from our building there is a steep incline, and difficult for me to access with my bike. I want to ask the Body Corporate if I can wheel the bike through the main entrance as it will be easier on me. Is this a reasonable request? Could they refuse?
I am a 78 yr old female. I have a three wheel bike. Our vehicular exit to the road is a steep incline, and difficult for me to push my bike on. The bike is heavy, but I am ok on the flat ground.
I am thinking of asking our Body Corporate if I can bring my bike through the door from the garage to the lift, go up one floor to the main entrance and exit on a slightly downhill pathway.
Is this a reasonable request? Could they refuse?
Answer: It certainly sounds reasonable on first read. Before you do anything though, do you know for sure there are by-laws which regulate the situation you’re talking about?
It certainly sounds reasonable on first read. Before you do anything though, do you know for sure there are by-laws which regulate the situation you’re talking about? Because if there isn’t, then you may not even have to seek permission to do what you want to do.
If you do need to seek permission, you’d do so in writing and perhaps accompany that with a brief explanatory note in which you outline your difficulties with the incline and why what you’re proposing is a better (safer?) option. If you have something from your doctor to support this, for example, that would really strengthen your case.
The body corporate can refuse this permission although they’d need good reasons to do so. Simply refusing it, either with (a) no reasons at all or (b) because they just don’t like it, will be unlikely to cut it. If there is a refusal and you can’t get any further with the body corporate, you can then challenge it through the Commissioner’s Office.
Chris Irons
Strata Solve
E: chris@stratasolve.com.au
P: 0419 805 898
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