No return to Mascot Towers until 2020

PHOTO: Sydney’s Mascot Towers

Residents of Sydney’s Mascot Towers won’t return to their apartments until 2020.

The earliest timeline is January 2020 while the crack remediation work proceeds.

Residents of the complex’s 132 apartments were evacuated in mid-June.

They have since been living in temporary accommodation.

Engineers investigating the cause of the problems told last night’s extraordinary general meeting of unit owners that some residents

The main item on the EGM agenda was vote on a special levy to pay for remediation work on the complex.

It was for the first of four stages.

The meeting voted to raise a special $7 million levy on the decade-old building which is no longer covered under warranty for major defects, which expires after six years in NSW.

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