Strata management in Riverwood

Your building might not be in the council you think

Riverwood is split between Canterbury-Bankstown and Georges River. Not the surrounding region: the suburb itself. Two schemes a few streets apart can answer to different councils.

That is not trivia. It determines which council assesses a development application for common property work, which waste and bulky-goods service applies, which local rules govern tree removal, and who a committee should be calling when something on the street is the council's problem rather than the scheme's.

Different sources place parts of Riverwood differently, so the honest answer is that the address has to be checked rather than assumed. We verify the specific property against the NSW Planning Portal before we tell a committee which council it is dealing with. If your current agent has never told you which side you are on, that is worth asking about.

Source: Georges River Council, Riverwood Estate State Significant Precinct.

The Riverwood Estate renewal

Riverwood Estate is the subject of a State Significant Precinct proposal: a large-scale renewal converting 1960s and 1970s public housing walk-ups into a mix of private and social apartments.

If you own in an existing private scheme nearby, the renewal affects you even though you are not part of it. Staged demolition and construction over a long period means dust, noise, traffic changes and altered street parking. It also means the composition of the neighbourhood changes, which tends to move property values and, with them, the level of interest developers take in adjoining sites.

The useful posture for a committee is neither alarm nor indifference. It is to have a dilapidation record of your building before major works begin nearby, so that if cracking appears later you can show what was and was not there beforehand.

The existing strata stock

At the 2021 Census, Riverwood had 4,777 occupied private dwellings:

• 47.8%Flats or apartments
• 38.0%Separate houses
• 13.1%Semi-detached or townhouses

That is a genuinely mixed suburb, and the mix is the point. Riverwood has both apartment schemes and a substantial townhouse and villa population, so the work varies from lifts and fire systems at one end to shared driveways and fencing at the other.

Source: ABS 2021 Census QuickStats, Riverwood (SAL13386).

What we do for Riverwood schemes

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