OPINION: Reasonable restrictions on balcony barbecues may be the only thing that prevents them a complete ban.
Sydney Morning Herald story
Why unlikely? Because barbecuing is a great Australian pastime and even suggesting that it’s not a crash-hot idea for apartment blocks is seen as a combination of sacrilege and treason, spiced with nimbyism. Some are worse than others. At one point we had a trio of young men living below us, none of whom had apparently mastered the use of a stove, so most nights were barbie night.
So, you could pass a by-law that makes permission to keep a barbecue on the balcony subject to certain conditions. For example, you could limit their use to weekends or no more than three nights a week. That would still allow people to have barbies while giving the rest of us a break.
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