Investigative Journalism and Learning Hub - Waratah Strata Management ignored concerns about usage of supermarket trolleys in SP52948 on 7 August 2020

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From: SP52948 owner
To: Frank Tallaridi, Robert Crosbie
Subject: REPORT: SP52948 Usage of supermarket trolleys within complex continues - 7Aug2020
Date: 7/8/20, 12:06 pm

For owners corporation records. Some of repetitive problems with supermarket trolleys being used within the complex. This was reported as early as 2014.

a) Nobody is supposed to take trolleys outside of shopping centres. They have clear ownership and cause losses to the owners when trolleys are removed or misappropriated.

b) It is an awful look for a suburb leaving them outside buildings. Not to mention that it adds to the cost of shopping through lost trolleys and collection.

c) Trolleys can not be left unmanned in the surrounding area of the apartment (some tenants leave them outside the complex, typically next to bus stop on Fontenoy Road where they are left uncollected for days at a time).

d) Trolleys can create safety hazard due to run-away accidents or damages to common property (like mirrors in the elevators, and so on).

In properly-managed strata complexes, by-laws and/or notices about supermarket trolleys exist.

This was reported many times, to no avail. Here are some of the recent ones, including one for today, which should be available on CCTV.

At around 16:29 hours on 5 October 2017 Mr. Stan Pogorelsky was pushing supermarket trolley from his unit, passing by garbage bins below Block A and going towards Lot 181 garage.

At around 17:42 hours on 5 December 2017 Mr. Stan Pogorelsky was pushing supermarket trolley from his unit, passing by garbage bins below Block A and going towards Lot 181 garage.

At around 15:37 hours on 16 March 2018 Mr. Stan Pogorelsky was pushing supermarket trolley from his unit, passing by garbage bins below Block A and going towards Lot 181 garage.

At around 18:51 hours on 1 November 2018 Mr. Stan Pogorelsky was pushing supermarket trolley from his unit, passing by garbage bins below Block A and going towards Lot 181 garage.

At around 08:40 hours on 7 June 2020 Lot 181 Mr. Stan Pogorelsky was pushing supermarket trolley from his unit, passing by garbage bins below Block A and going towards Lot 181 garage.

At around 10:50 hours on 7 August 2020, Lot 181 Mr. Stan Pogorelsky was pushing supermarket trolley from his unit, passing by garbage bins below Block A and going towards Lot 181 garage.

Lot 181 is not the only one with supermarket trolleys in the complex currently.

Lot 181 was originally asked to prove ownership of his trolley. He never replied.