Shared access – who can do what
What are the rules on storing objects i.e. crates and large rubbish bins along a shared access footpath that is the only entrance to numerous blocks of flats?
A business below one of the blocks of flats (not mine) seems to think that he owns the whole path and any free space along that path.
It is a health risk as he stores cardboard in a plastic bin adjacent to the flats, leaves crates lying in a very narrow passageway and the bins are often not fully closed and we have had a rat problem (environmental health aware).
It is smelly and unsightly for residents to have to pass this everyday.
How would you approach this problem?
Many thanks
Lucinda
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3:20 PM, 16th June 2014, About 12 years ago
Access to the alleyway may well be shared but somebody must own it. I suggest you find out who that is.
I recommend a letter to the local Environmental Heath Officer and also a letter to the business which is causing the problem, each letter cc’d to the other.
Good luck.
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