Hi what a problem. I see three issues for your strata scheme:
1) Have you any rights regarding the removal of the lot Owner and in particular on grounds of diminished capacity, it’s a very emotional issue and will require getting some legal advice. I would suggest that you may also make some inquiries to government departments that deal with senior citizen issues.
2) Is the level of fire protection adequate to the complex to protect life and property if a fire to this Owners unit, or in fact any unit; to a level that would see minimal damage result from a full on fire to this persons unit or any unit.
You have not stated the extent of any of the fires to date, however if you are unable to have the gentleman move into adequate care as he may need, the only other option may be to have your fire services reviewed and possibly upgraded so as to as best as possible stop the spread of fire to another unit or the common property.
3) It is only a matter of time that the Fire Brigade will take an interst in your building and carry out a fire compliance review or ask Council to do so, which only ever results in a fire order to upgrade the fire services to the complete strata complex.
Unfortunatly I don’t have any solid advice or suggestions, I think the executive committee needs to work out a strategy to how they best look after the lot Owner in a sympathetic way, but also protect the interest of the remaining owners at the same time. Possibly a starting point could be trying to make contact with his family and talk about your concern for both him and he OC. Best of luck.
If you need to look at issue 2) or have a visit from the Fire Brigadge or Council give Integrated a call as we can help.
Chris Mo’ane AIAMA, MASBC-CPC
GMD Intigrated Consultancy Group
Engineers and Building Consultants
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