We have recently received a few questions from Queensland strata lot owners concerning strata parking allocation for disabled parking. Thank you to Kelly Borell, Tower Body Corporate for providing the following responses.
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- QUESTION: Can you please advise if there are strata parking allocation laws regarding how many car parks and how much guest parking is required in a block of units?
- QUESTION: Can an owner with a disability sticker use the disabled car space for permanent parking?
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Question: Can you please advise if there are strata parking allocation laws regarding how many car parks and how much guest parking is required in a block of units?
Answer: I believe it is the local Council that sets the strata parking allocation. They are responsible for requirements relating to the number of visitor parks a complex has, and this would be done when the development approvals were being processed.
Question: Can an owner with a disability sticker use the disabled car space for permanent parking?
Can an owner with a disability sticker use the disabled car space for permanent parking, as a way of obtaining a second car space? The unit has one car space but the owners have two cars.
Answer: Residents are unable to park in visitor car spaces.
If the disabled car space that they are referring to is a visitor car space, then no, residents are unable to park there.
Having a certain number of visitor spots for a scheme is a requirement of the local council, and they are for the sole use of visitors to the complex.
Residents using the visitor spaces themselves would not be abiding by the strata parking allocation and would be in breach of the body corporate bylaws.
This post appears in Strata News #102
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Kelly Borell
Tower Body Corporate
P: 07 5609 4924
E: [email protected]
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Hi Ross,
My understanding is the disability sticker only gives you rights on public roads and not in private complexes. Private car parks can set their own terms and conditions.
Kelly…hi, and thank you for this advice.
I gather from your advice that there are two separate tests re use of Visitor’s Disability Carparks ie they have to be a Visitor, and they have to have a Disability Sticker. To put it plainly:
1. These carparks are for VISITORS NOT RESIDENTS, even when the Residents have Disability Stickers, whether for long-term or short-term parking.
2.They are for VISITORS NOT PASSERSBY, even when the Passerby has a Disability Sticker.
The reason why I raise this is that I’ve had it explained to me in quite emphatic terms, by someone with a Disability Sticker but with no connection with our complex, that they were quite entitled to use our complexe’s Visitor’s Disability Carpark whenever they wished to go shopping over the road, and for as long as they wished to park there.