News from Inner City Wellington
Many apartment owners in Wellington will have seen the PRIME documentary last Wednesday about the ongoing issues with multi-owner residential buildings across New Zealand: leaking, structural issues, non-compliant fire services in buildings completed as recently as five years ago. The financial, health and social impacts on the affected owners are substantial.
This is not a new issue, yet still residential buildings are being built that are ruining owners’ lives.
Another ‘hell’ that hundreds of apartment owners are living through was only briefly touched upon in the documentary. It comes to apartment owners who are told that their buildings have been deemed to be ‘earthquake-prone’ under the Building Act 2004 even though the buildings were fully compliant with the Building Act when they were built or last altered.