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I note the post on smoking zones planned for apartment blocks and the last 2 paragraphs in it referring to balcony barbecues. Frankly I do not fully understand what they are saying!
I do understand however an article in this mornings Sunday Telegraph on the lower left hand corner of page 28 which states:
“Barbie blaze sparks Panic”
A dodgy barbecue is believed to have sparked a fire in a unit block in Sydney’s north.
Energy services were called to the Lindfield block shortly before 11PM on Friday.
The blaze is thought to have started on the balcony of the second-storey unit when the barbecue’s gas bottle exploded before spreading into the lounge room, causing extensive damage.
Residents of the building were evacuated while fire crews put out the blaze.
Now I’ve read about these fires time and again over the last few years and nothing seems to be being done about it.
We’ve already had the deaths in Bankstown a few years ago and it appears that something similar will happen again if something is not done about the controls.
Of course if something happens like that, it will have been too late.
Under the new legislation taking place in a few days, can an OC issue a by-law to ban barbecues from balconies?
Would a gas barbecue be treated differently than a coal fired or other type of barbecue?
It would seem to me that banning of barbecues would be a much more important issue than providing smoking zones particularly for smaller stratas.
Our strata is a block of 32 units in NSW.