A new symptom of the Covid-19 crisis and work-from-home business model is plaguing residents in community housing schemes like sectional title complexes and residential estates: barking dogs.
Specialist sectional title attorney and BBM Law director Marina Constas pointed to an increasing number of enquiries about the noise nuisance of dogs barking excessively.
“It may also be that people working from home are demanding more peace and quiet. It is not ideal to have to conduct a virtual meeting with barking dogs in the background. “When living in close proximity in a complex or estate, there has to be a compromise between neighbours. If a case like this does go to the Community Schemes Ombud Service , the adjudicator will want to see what internal mediation was undertaken first.
She added that residents are entitled to reasonable quiet; but a complex may not stipulate in its conduct rules that silence must be maintained.
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