Communal areas and private balconies storage policy

Our approach to maintain health and safety in communal areas and private balconies.

This policy outlines how we intend to ensure communal areas and private balconies are maintained in a safe manner. It sets out our responsibility towards the management of health and safety, and in particular, fire safety of communal areas within council buildings. It covers:

  • how we manage risk to ensure residents are able to live in an environment that they can be proud of
  • the requirement to abide by fire safety legislation 
  • withdrawing permission to store items in the communal areas and on balconies, which may pose a potential fire

Download the communal areas and private balconies storage policy (PDF, 431KB).