Question: For a multi-storey apartment complex, should all lot owners be sent the annual fire inspection report?
Answer: Fire reports would usually be sent to the committee and building managers to review and approve any required works.
There is no requirement to send out the annual fire inspection report, and it’s not common practice across the industry to send this type of report out.
Fire reports would usually be sent to the committee and building managers to review and approve any required works. If the findings were significant enough, the committee might consider sending the report to all owners so they had the required information. If the repairs were costly enough, a general meeting may be required to approve works, and owners would get a copy at that stage.
If you have a portal, reports of this nature would usually be made available there, and, if interested, owners could access them.
Equally, if you wrote to the body corporate and requested the report, I can’t see any problems with sending it out. Whatever the findings in the report, it’s hard to think of a good reason why it wouldn’t be made available.
If you have asked for a copy of the report and it is not being provided for some reason, that could be a red flag. You may have to arrange a search of the records to access the report, but owners shouldn’t have to do these searches to get access to their information unless there are extenuating circumstances.
William Marquand
Tower Body Corporate
E: willmarquand@towerbodycorporate.com.au
P: 07 5609 4924
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