StrataWorking® Podcast

Tobacconists are popping up on shopfronts across Canberra, including in mixed-use strata schemes, and insurers have noticed. When one lot’s use drives up the building’s premium, why should every owner pay for it?

Suz and Ally unpack how ACT owners corporations can use an alternative, user-pays levy methodology to put the cost of a risky use where it belongs, what happens when the owner can’t recover it from their tenant, and why the ACT’s human rights debate over closing illegal tobacco shops matters to strata communities.