SINGAPORE — Mary (not her real name), a 30-year-old resident from Jurong West, gets woken up every day at 5am by her neighbours ever since they moved in last year into a unit below hers.
“When they wake up, I also wake up with them,” the engineer, who wanted to remain anonymous, told TODAY on Friday .
Among the proposed changes to the framework, it will be mandatory for neighbours in a dispute to undergo mediation first before they take it further to the Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals , a specialised court that manages unresolved disputes. If the police do not get involved, the condominium management is often left to deal with such disputes but is unable to fully investigate without being able to enter homes, Mr Derek Lit, 45, the executive director of CWL Facilities Management, said.The most common causes of neighbourly disputes are often noise-related involving loud music or banging sounds, Mr Collin and Mr Lit said.
Legal experts also welcomed the proposals, with Ms Aw from WongPartnership saying that mediation may help mend the relationship between the neighbours at an earlier stage, without them having to take the matter further. Another proposed amendment to the framework is to allow enforcement officers to enter homes to put a stop to ongoing nuisances.
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