Strata Developers Need to Build for Strata Families
We’ve written a few times, like in the Articles Is Strata really Anti Family? And, do we care? and Are Strata Buildings Child and Family Unfriendly?, that the way strata laws apply and how strata buildings operate is family unfriendly.
Is Strata really Anti family ? And, do we care ?
If strata is the future of Australian housing [which everyone says it is], then it must accommodate families unless it’s to become a national nursing home sector.
Are Strata Buildings Child and Family Unfriendly?
Is it possible that strata apartments are unwelcoming to children and families? And, is that just due to design issues? If so, perhaps we should rethink our approach and make strata title a better place for families with children.
But that’s just the end of the problems for strata families. Not the start.
As this Sydney Morning Herald article by Anthony Segaert called Will Sydney’s Apartments ever Become more Family Friendly? explains: even when local councils change planning controls to increase the number of 3 and 4 bedroom apartments that must be included in new strata developments [like they’ve done in Liverpool and the Hills District], it may not work because developers could build elsewhere [and they often do].
If families and their stuff [which can be voluminous] don’t fit into an apartment or there are no open space facilities in or near the strata building, then they can’t really live there at all.
So, strata developers need to get with the strata families program and build larger and more useful strata apartments.
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