There will be forbidden to smoke on the balcony – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Northeast in Bærum, verging to Oslo, the residential complex Eiksparken be completed in 2018. A total of 66 apartments will be constructed, everyone gets either balcony and terrace. The price is between approximately 3.5 and 11 million.

However, according to the plan will not residents could have a smoke on the balcony or terrace. Client Backe Project has in its proposed bylaws for the new condominium placed a smoking ban.

– This is because the smoke can draw into apartments through fresh air intake in the outer wall, making it smell inside . From previous projects, we know that more residents will find this annoying, says Bjørn Tore Hagness, general manager for Backe Project, told Dagbladet.

– Can be changed

It was NRK Østlandssendingen who first publicized case.

Hagness maintains that Backe did not want to pry into what people do on their own balcony.

– This is just a draft from us, and the new condominium general meeting is free to change on bylaws. But to date we have not received any negative reactions – feedback from mediators are contrary that buyers are positive about this, he said.

Must take into account

There are already several cooperatives and condominiums that encourages state equity or co-owners not to smoke on the balcony. The unique Eiksparken is that the apartments are sold with an accompanying smoking.

Attorney Anders Leisner in Huseiernes Association’s legal department explains to NRK that the rules on smoking on balconies come under own section legal definition of pay attention to the neighbors. He is not sure that a ban will stand up in court.

– Are conditions allowing smoking on their balconies will always be a problem for neighbors, will have a ban complied. But one takes a cigarette break on the balcony without disturbing anyone, I do not think one can forbid it, he said.