A gated body corporate with a standard format survey scheme wanted to upgrade their existing water meters to a compliant standard so that Urban Utilities could commence billing individual lot owners for usage rather than billing owners by lot entitlements.
Everything was going ok and appropriate general meeting motions were passed. Unfortunately, the meters are located with the lot boundaries and not on common property. Consequently, every lot owner needs to formally consent to the body corporate upgrading the meter. Additionally, the expense should be a lot owner expense and not be a body corporate expense.
Unfortunately, not every lot owner consented. Whilst the body corporate legislation allows for this situation … some lot owners billed by meter and the unmetered lot owners billed by lot entitlement … Urban Utilities does not support the arrangement. Only if all lots have compliant water meters will they change to billing by usage. Private water billing companies such as Fairwater meters have the same business rule.
So, the poor body corporate is stuck with billing by lot entitlment … for ever.