Question: In a Standard Format Plan, our block of garages have damage from consistent water ingress. There is no guttering on this building. Who is responsible for paying for these repairs?
We are under a Standard Format Plan and have three garages in a row within our car park. These garages are separate to our townhouses and numbered accordingly for each townhouse with shared walls between.
Two of the garages have consistent water ingress damage from rain events and one has a door that needs replacing. There is no guttering on this building.
Who is responsible for paying for these repairs?
Answer: You should contact your body corporate manager to help determine responsibility with reference to the plan and by-laws.
In a standard format plan, the garage is usually part of the lot and lot owner responsibility. However, it is possible the garages could be separate from the lot and located on common property, presumably with exclusive use rights. Then, the body corporate would be responsible for the exterior and the owner the interior.
As a first step you should contact your body corporate manager to help determine responsibility with reference to the plan and by-laws. After that you would need to work out the source of the problem and the requirements for rectification in order to allocate costs.
This post appears in the March 2022 edition of The QLD Strata Magazine.
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