A landlord of a property with multiple occupants has been convicted of failing to comply with an improvement notice. The improvement notice previously served specified the battery fire alarms were not working, there were a lack of fire doors and the doors had unsuitable door locks which could cause occupants to become trapped in the event of a fire.
The housing planning department said “landlords must ensure that their housing is in safe condition or feel the full force of the law.”
A worrying trend with many of these cases is the use of deadlocks on fire doors by landlords which turn the house into a death trap.
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