Block of flats
A twelve‑flat block in Esklow Vale
Four storeys of shared stairs, a mobility scooter on charge in the hallway and a meter cupboard used as a bin store.
Town
Esklow Vale
Floors
4
Floor area
1,150 m²
Occupancy
12 flats, about 30 residents
Assessed
Review date
What we found
Three findings, marked on the photograph.
1
Scooter charging in hallway
Act now
Move the scooter to a store with its own charging point and agree a rule for residents.
2
Bags in meter cupboard
Within a month
Take the bags out, lock the cupboard and give the residents a proper bin store.
3
Exit sign lit
Next review
Keep the sign lit and test its light each month.
What changed
The same place after the work.
The hallway floor is clear and the meter cupboard is empty and locked.
The block has twelve flats on four floors, with one shared stair and a hallway at the bottom. It is looked after by a managing agent who had not visited for some months.
We walked every landing. The upper floors were in good order: doors closed, nothing stored, a clean smell of floor polish. The hallway was different. A resident’s mobility scooter was on charge at the foot of the stairs, which is the one place a fire would cut off every flat above. Bin bags had been pushed into the meter cupboard because the outside store was a long way off.
None of the residents had been unreasonable. Each had solved a small problem in the nearest place. The report named the problem and not the people.
The agent wrote to residents with a clear rule and a place to store scooters and bags. “The photographs did the talking,” said Rafe, the managing agent at Holloway & Pike Lettings. “Nobody argued with a picture of their own hallway.”
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