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The building I live in in a suburb of Sydney , NSW , has several balconies that face West.
In Summer it becomes very hot on those balconies in the afternoons.
On two of those balconies there has been left permanently a cylinder of Gas connected to a small portable BBQ.
Last Summer there was a large fire started on the roof of a building in our street as result of a Gas BBQ being lit on a very hot Summer day.
The concern of some of us in the building I live in is that if there was even a small gas leak from one of the on-balcony cylinders whilst a person was attempting to light their BBQ , or even if only smoking a cigarette near it , then there could be an explosion large enough to cause physical damage to the nearest neighbour on their balcony from flying objects , or sufficient heat from the explosion and subsequent on-balcony fire to ignite things on the beside neighbour’s balcony also or on the balcony above.
The Fire Safety Inspector for our building said there are no Fire Safety Regulations by our local Council about storage of a Resident’s BBQ Gas cylinder on the Residents own , or rented , property.
Does anyone here know if there are any Regulations within Strata Law in NSW under which an Owner can be issued an Order to not store a cylinder of flammable gas in a location where it is subject to high environmental heat and where that location is very close to neighbours in the same building ?
The particular gas cylinders are small enough to be carried inside the Units and stored in the bathrooms , where there is unlikely to be a fire , and if there was it would not spread inside a tiled bathroom , however we may have to obtain an enforceable Order to have the owners of the gas cylinders do that.