This page provides extracts from the Hamilton Park Rules and Handbook.

Introduction

Owners and residents must not use the common property to interfere with the use and enjoyment of the common property by an owner or resident of another unit (Rule 1.7).

Ensuring safety on the driveway, ease of access and fair sharing of parking is important for all owners and residents to live comfortably at Hamilton Park.

Drive and ride safely

A speed limit of 10 km per hour applies on all roadways within Hamilton Park, and applies to all types of vehicles, including cars, bicycles and scooters.

The roads within Hamilton Park are sign-posted as a ‘Shared Zone’ and all vehicles must give way to pedestrians.

Vehicles reversing or driving out of garages or parking bays must always give way to all other vehicles and pedestrians.

If there is a collision involving a vehicle (or vehicles), the driver(s) must report it, as per: Report a collision | Australian Capital Territory Policing (act.gov.au).
Notify the Strata Manager if there is any damage to common property.

 

Do not block access or park on gardens

Vehicles must not be parked on the roadway.

The No Parking signs prohibit parking on the roadway. They do not apply to parking within designated parking bays.

Vehicles must be parked on the apron in front of a garage or within a designated parking bay and not protrude onto the roadway or the garden.

Parking is not permitted:

• On any path, garden, or landscaped area within Hamilton Park and in or near the entrances or on the nature strips on Cossington Smith Cres.
• Anywhere the vehicle may block access to other vehicles or block other residents’ access to their unit.
• Of caravans, boats and trailers on common property.

Note: a trailer may be parked temporarily on common property when required for removals or maintenance activities.

Parking bays (or other areas of common property) must not be used for motor vehicle repairs, except in emergencies.

Unregistered vehicles

Action to remove unregistered vehicles from common property is taken in line with the Uncollected Goods Act 1996 | Acts.

For an unregistered vehicle parked on common property, the Strata Manager will send a notice to all owners and residents, and a place a copy on the vehicle.

If the vehicle is not removed within 7 days of the notice being issued, it will be considered “Uncollected Goods”.

The value of the vehicle will be assessed based on:

•  available market data for the year, make and model of the car; and
• approx. costs for the removal of the vehicle from the property.

If the value of the vehicle is <$500 and the vehicle has not been removed 1 month after the deadline, the owners corporation will arrange for the vehicle to be towed from the property and the owner will not be able to recover the vehicle.

If the value of the vehicle is >$500 and the vehicle has not been removed 3 months after the deadline, the owners corporation will arrange for a notice to be placed in The Canberra Times advising the intention to auction the vehicle at a public auction.

If the vehicle is not removed, it will be auctioned. The owners corporation can retain an amount from the proceeds to cover the owners corporations costs, with any excess paid to the ACT Government.

Updated February 2026.