Maintenance Guidelines

What you need to know

As a lot owner in an owners corporation (formerly body corporation), you:

• are entitled to renovate or refurbish the interior of your apartment or unit. You must notify your owners corporation if the renovation requires a building or planning permit
• must keep the exterior of your lot "in good and serviceable repairs". Its appearance must not affect other lot owners' use and enjoyment of the property.

If an owner fails to keep the exterior in good and serviceable repair, an owners corporation can, in writing, order the owners to carry out repairs.
Follow the link for further information https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/housing/owners-corporations/property-maintenance/maintaining-and-renovating-individual-lots