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dogface wrote:Any clues on where to find an 88" tenement internal door?
I've rung West Coast Reclamation & will give Glasgow Architectural Salvage a ring in the morning but any other bright ideas much appreciated!
The Egg Man wrote:Get in touch with your landlord's emergency plumber. If you're a Housing Assoc tenant the number should be on their website or on info supplied to you by them during the year. Let them do the running and make the decisions about access etc.
Emphasise you're getting water in and are worried about the electrics. "Significant leaks or flooding from water or heating pipes, tanks or cisterns" is a qualifying repair under the Statutory Right to Repair regulations and should be completed within 1 day of report.
Sunflower wrote:Here's one for the HG hive mind - all opinions, factoids, personal experiences, friend-of-a-friend stories welcome, anything no matter how vaguely related, please help!
Our flat is one of four up the stairs on a trad tenement building. The building has two main door flats, which both have ground floor and basement levels (with internal staircases). The same bloke owns both main door flats.
He's applied for planning permission to split both main door flats into separate ground floor and basement flats. The plans show the ground floor flats (which are the ones with the existing street doors) having new doors made into the close. The owners of the four upstairs flats have some sympathy with the idea of splitting the main door flats (who can think of a use for a double floor flat with 15 rooms, no private outdoor space and limited street parking?), but we don't want extra doors in the close, where we keep bikes and bins and litter pickers and grit and salt...
The title deeds say "... no alterations shall be made to the structure of the subjects hereby disponed which would interfere with the structural stability of the said tenement, without the consent of a majority of the proprietors of said houses in said tenement." It seems to me that bashing holes in the close walls for new doorways 'would interfere with the structural stability etc. etc.
Help, help, HG hive mind - I know someone is going to say go to a lawyer, but have you got any experience that suggests that one lawyer's view is going to be definitive? If we shell out to a lawyer and their answer helps us, won't the downstairs owner just find a different lawyer with a different opinion?
And, even if it said in the title deeds in plain english understandable by everyone, 'Thou shalt not make new doorways into the close', what mechanism is there for us to use to stop it happening?
I'd love to hear about any even vaguely relevant experiences, please, please?
Guacho wrote:Noticed that the tenements at 706 Pollokshaws Road (The block with Heraghty's bar) still have round external stairwells. Hadn't seen these for years- I thought they had all been demolished.
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