Who pays for shared driveway cleaning in Alexandria industrial strata

Contributions to an owners corporation are usually calculated from unit entitlements recorded on the strata plan, which reflect relative value rather than traffic. A small showroom unit and a large storage unit can generate wildly different volumes of vehicle movement while contributing in a fixed ratio that has nothing to do with either. Nobody has done anything wrong here. The arrangement simply was not designed to track wear, and no amount of goodwill at a committee meeting will make it start doing so.

The practical answer is not to redesign the contribution model, which is a matter for the scheme's own records and whatever advice its strata managing agent gives. It is to make the cleaning cost visible enough that owners can see what they are actually funding. When a quote separates driveway sweeping from bin bay work and from the front entry, the committee can discuss the parts that genuinely differ between years instead of arguing about one lump figure nobody can break down.

The boundary in most industrial schemes runs at the face of the unit. Floors, racking and internal amenities belong to the lot and to whoever occupies it, and an owners corporation that quietly starts cleaning them is spending everyone's money improving one owner's premises. A cleaner working on common property needs to know precisely where to stop, and the scope should say so in plain terms rather than leaving it to a judgement call on a wet Tuesday morning.

Occupiers who want their own unit serviced can arrange it directly, and there is no reason at all that the same contractor cannot do both. What matters is that the two arrangements are separate agreements with separate invoices and separate reporting. Clean Best keeps them apart deliberately, so a unit occupier never quietly receives work funded by the scheme and the scheme never ends up subsidising the presentation of a tenancy that happens to be closest to the gate.

Committees in industrial schemes tend to meet rarely and are made up of owners who run demanding businesses of their own. A proposal that runs to many pages of task detail will sit unread until the meeting, then get deferred because nobody has had time to form a view. What moves quickly is a short document naming the areas, the frequency beside each one, the exclusions, and a single contact who can authorise an extra attendance when a delivery goes wrong on a Friday afternoon.

It also helps to separate the recurring work from the occasional. Pressure washing a hardstand or lifting an accumulated oil stain is not a weekly item and should not be buried inside a weekly price where it becomes invisible. Presenting it as a planned piece of work with its own date and its own approval lets the committee decide when the scheme can carry it.