Flats communal areas

[Si123456]

Please can you clarify whether a flat owner or the freeholder of the communal areas is responsible to pay/ensure all of the flats front doors are fd30 with self closers?

 

thankyou

[AnthonyB]

Usually the leaseholder, but you need to check your actual lease. Where a leaseholder refuses to act then the local authority can take legal action against them under the Housing Act 2004.

If the door is an original fire door (not current spec) and still in good repair then depending on the size of block and risk it may only require a modern self closer - one group of tenants were able to win a civil case against the freeholder who replaced all the doors with current FD30S doors beyond the terms of the lease - the original doors were not properly checked, were actually still in original good repair and didn't need a full immediate upgrade for the type of block.