PROJECT HIGHRISE BLEEDING MONEY CRACK
The stacker, which has only been in use for a few years and is believed to have cost upwards of $2million, is supposed to have an operating life of up to 25 years.Īn engineer's report commissioned by the Owners' Corporation blamed the incident on a crack in a major shaft. "No one will correspond and everyone's pointing fingers in different directions." Mrs Brady said her lawyer wasn't having any luck either. "It just feels like we're getting nowhere," Mr Lim said. Cars trapped in an underground car stacker. Levanta's lawyers fired back in a letter of their own and said: "Repairing and maintaining common property and associated fixtures and services is a function of the Owners' Corporation". The Owners' Corporation warned it would "not be responding to any demands in respect of loss of access to your vehicle". It said the Owners' Corporation was of the view that the "evidence clearly demonstrates" it has "no liability in respect of either the damage to the car stacker … or the loss of access to your vehicle".Īccording to the Owners' Corporation, liability rested with Levanta Park, the Queensland company that supplied and installed the stacker. It followed the completion of an engineer's report. In October last year a letter was sent to residents on behalf of SOCM, the Owners' Corporation Manager. "I lived in China for 30 years and I often think I had far more rights in China, being a communist country, than I do here in Australia." "Sometimes I think as Australians we have very few rights," Mrs Brady said. Louise Brady, who lives in the building with her husband Doug, said she was livid. He has been forking out $800 a month to hire a car. Recent medical graduate Bowen Lim, who has had to move out of the Bond Quarter building, slammed the situation as "absolutely infuriating". READ MORE: I've saved heaps of motorists, says teen on a speed camera crusade It's now been 276 days since the incident and little has changed. "It's just been a blame game as to what's actually happened," one tenant said at the time. Two months later, residents vented their frustration on A Current Affair. READ MORE: Woman finds missing belongings at Mitre 10 outlet amid storage dispute
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