The “Myth”
Alterations to a Lot and additional or commensurate alterations to Common Property can be approved by the Strata Company under section 89 of the Strata Titles Act 1985 (WA) (Act) or by the Western Australian State Administrative Tribunal under any of sections 90, 197 and 200 of the Act.
This Myth has been advanced by various “actors” even to the extent that I recently needed to dissuade a Member of the Tribunal from adopting it as a “starting position” in an attempt to resolve a dispute about alterations to a Lot and Common Property.
However, the “starting position” is that:
Common Property and Lots are different “portions of land” within a Strata Scheme;