16 Birriga Road Bellevue Hill
SP 85312 · Registered 16 May 2011 · 5 lots · Woollahra · New South Wales checked 10 June 2026
Public record: 3 tribunal matters, no building-work orders. A reasonable pre-screen, but not the full picture, the financials and minutes that decide the purchase are in the report, not the registers. Read it, and obtain a section 184 strata search, before you bid.
- 3 tribunal or court matters, the most serious about building defects
- Burbank Montague Pty Ltd is named at 2 schemes, a cross-scheme pattern
- $4,300 indicative cost exposure per lot, low band
The public record is a pre-screen, not the strata report. Read on for the detail, then obtain a section 184 strata search before you bid.
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Public record checked
Litigation, building-work orders, and governance for this scheme, the page you are on.
- Read the strata report →
Paste the section 184 strata search or AGM minutes to see the fund balance and red flags the public registers can't. Obtain a section 184 strata search if you do not have it yet.
- Questions to ask
The specific questions this scheme's record raises, ready for the strata manager or your conveyancer.
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Decide
Take the public record and the report findings to your conveyancer before you bid.
Risk read
What the public record shows for this scheme, read for a buyer. This is not the strata report, and a quiet record is not a guarantee: obtain a section 184 strata search before you bid.
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3 litigation matters on record
Tribunal and court decisions naming this scheme as a party. A litigious building is more likely to be carrying unresolved disputes, defects, or levy fights.
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Builder named across multiple schemes
Burbank Montague Pty Ltd is named in litigation at 2 strata schemes, a cross-scheme pattern worth checking before you buy.
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No recent annual reporting on the Strata Hub
We could not find a current annual return for this scheme on the NSW Strata Hub. That may just be a gap in the public data, but a non-reporting scheme can also signal a disengaged committee, ask for the last two AGM minutes.
Cost exposure
Low exposureAn indicative, itemised estimate of what one lot here could face, built only from this scheme's public-record signals. Indicative ranges, not this building's actual figures, and not financial advice.
Special levies are apportioned by unit entitlement. Set this from your contract; 1.0× is an average lot.
| Driver | Good | Expected | Worst |
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Tribunal and legal costs 3 tribunal or court matters on the public record. Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT). Scaled for: 3 matters. | $600 | $4,300 | $15,900 |
| Total per lot | $600 | $4,300 | $15,900 |
Across all 5 lots, an expected program of this kind is on the order of $21,500 building-wide, before any government contribution.
Estimate only. Figures are indicative ranges from public remediation programs and reporting, apportioned to one lot; they are not this building's costed works and not financial advice. Obtain the capital works fund balance, any special levy resolved or proposed, and a strata records search before you transact.
Questions to ask before you bid
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The building's builder is named in disputes at other schemes, is the original builder still solvent for a warranty claim?
Because Burbank Montague Pty Ltd appears at 2 schemes.
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What is the capital works (sinking) fund balance, its adequacy ratio, and the 10-year plan?
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Are any special levies raised, proposed, or scoped-but-not-yet-levied?
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Can I see the last two years of AGM minutes, including any motions that were defeated?
Ask about this building
Ask a plain-English question and we'll answer from our record: litigation, building-work orders, water and defect matters, the managing agent, and more.
Save keeps this scheme on your dashboard. Monitoring tracks the matter count from 3 today; we'll flag new matters here as they appear.
Building record
Strata plan SP 85312 was registered on 16 May 2011 in the Woollahra council area and comprises 5 lots.
It is located at 16 Birriga Road Bellevue Hill.
Parcel geometry for the scheme is held on file.
Litigation
- Lewinsky v The Owners - Strata Plan No. 85312 [2021] NSWCATCD 163
Costs and procedure NSWCATCD 24 March 2021
COSTS – Whether there are special circumstances warranting an award of costs
- Burbank Montague Pty Limited and Anor v The Owners - Strata Plan 85312 and Anor [2020] NSWSC 1365
Costs and procedure NSWSC 8 October 2020
COSTS - principal proceedings involve strata scheme dispute - application by Notice of Motion for interlocutory orders - applicants determine not to press Notice of Motion - abandonment of claim for interlocutory orders - no hearing of Notice of Motion on the merits - relevant considerations on costs application - whether respondent entitled to costs of abandoned Notice of Motion - order for costs made
- Burbank Montague Pty Ltd v The Owners – Strata Plan No 85312 [2020] NSWCATAP 100
Building defects NSWCATAP 2 June 2020
APPEAL – leave to appeal – exercise of discretion – leave refused - leave to adduce new evidence refused - strata scheme – common property defects – scope of works – rectification costs – whether strata levy excessive - costs of appeal
Companies named in these matters
- Burbank Montague Pty Ltd, named in litigation at 2 strata schemes
- Burbank Montague Pty Limited and Anor
Builders, developers, and contractors named opposite this scheme. A company appearing across many schemes is a pattern worth a closer look before you buy.
Decisions naming this scheme as a party, from NSW Caselaw (NCAT and the courts). The line beneath each matter is the decision's own catchwords, quoted; the topic tag is our grouping of those words and reads "Other" when they do not clearly fit, so you can always check it against the source. Every matter links to the full decision. Whether a matter helped or hurt the scheme is not assessed here.
Decisions, in detail
Read from each decision's own text: the parties and their roles, who presided, how it ended, and the money in play. Every row links to the source.
- Lewinsky v The Owners - Strata Plan No. 85312 [2021] NSWCATCD 163 Management and meetings · Applicant successful G Blake AM SC, Senior Member
Burbank Montague Pty Ltd and Gornoa Pty Ltd ordered to pay the costs of the applicants for the substantive and interim proceedings on the basis that they acted unreasonably in opposing the appointment of a compulsory strata managing agent and the carrying out of building works.
- Anne Lewinsky (lot owner)
- Sidney Lewinsky (lot owner)
- Ronald Allen Zucker (lot owner)
- The Owners - Strata Plan No 85312 (owners corp)
- Burbank Montague Pty Ltd (lot owner)
- Gornoa Pty Ltd (lot owner)
Compared to Bellevue Hill
In Bellevue Hill, 3% of 375 strata schemes carry a tribunal matter on the public record. This scheme's 3 matters are well above the local average of 1.8 per litigated scheme.
The Bellevue Hill dispute landscape →Evidence ledger
Registry-backed record: matched to a scheme on the register by its plan number.
| Checked | Found | Match | Last checked |
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| Registry and parcel | NSW Strata Hub, with geometry | Direct | Awaiting first run |
| Governance: AGM, managing agent, annual reporting | Not yet checked | Not matched | Not harvested here yet |
| Litigation: NCAT and courts | 3 matters | Direct | 28 June 2026 |
| Levies and financials | Not yet checked | Not matched | Not in the public record |
| Defects and building-work orders | Checked, none found | Direct | 28 June 2026 |
| Fund balances, current levies, minutes, defects not yet litigated | Not on the public record | Not matched | Never in the public record |
What was checked, what it found, how strong the match, and when each source last ran. A source that has not run here yet reads as not checked, never as checked and clear. The unknowns the public registers structurally cannot show stay named, so silence above is never read as a clean bill.
Deep report · coming soon
On top of the public record above, the deep report will add the scheme's minutes, financials, capital-works fund, and a defect inspection. We're building it. Leave your email and we'll tell you when it's ready.