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[daveL]

I have a question on balcony heights and requirements. Our building was built in the 70s and the balcony heights vary and were compliant at the time of building but is not now. For example out balcony wall is around 75cm high. To complicate things we have a planter box creating garden bed the whole length of the balcony. So in effect we have two walls, about 70cm apart. The intervening space is filled with soil creating a garden bed.

The body corporate has decided to install a glass panel on each balcony to bring them up to the required height (1m)

Our particular unit is on the ground floor and so the level of the floor of our balcony is about 10-50cm above the ground. My understanding is that this means that we do not have to have the height of our wall raised, and we are already compliant with existing laws.

We do not want the glass panels installed as they will separate us from our garden bed, making it difficult to maintain.

So I have 2 questions

1.       Am I correct that we are already compliant as the floor of the balcony is less than 1m above the ground

2.       Can the owners corporation impose the glass panels on us if we do not want them

 Thanks for any advice you can provide

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