We’re going interstate and all-ages this week but we start with a council on Sydney’s North Shore that has been served with a repair order for defects in a block in which they were co-developers.
According to this story in the SMH, Lane Cove council is finding out the hard way what happens when you get into bed with a developer who goes bust.
After that we look at serious rumblings from Queensland where the government is trumpeting a plan to see 600,000 new apartments in the south-east corner of the state – doubling the number of units in the state in the next 20 years.
Somewhat ironically, that time span is less than the onerous, presold 25-year caretaker contracts that owners will be saddled with, whether they like them or not.
Queensland’s strata managers want to know what happened to the state government’s plans to change the laws into something less… um… anti-democratic... corrupt(?).
And finally we look at how over-55 downsizers and retirees could save between 20 and 80 per cent on the cost of a home by moving into schemes where doof-doof music and screaming kids are effectively banned.
Sounds like a win-win-win to us, and it’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap.
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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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