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Good evening folks,
I am seeking advice on a housing matter.
I live in a block of flats, as part of the tenancy, each flat is provided with a bike shed on the ground floor, the sheds are numbered to correspond with your flat number. I have lived at this address for 10+ years and for a number of years I did not make use of my allocated shed at all. One of the other residents removed my door number from the door of my shed and began using it to store their own things. Approx 2 years ago I needed to start using my shed so I contacted the landlord and also personally asked the resident to vacate my shed. 2 years on and this resident still has her own padlocks applied to the door and is storing their belongings in my shed. The landlord first stated to me that they would force entry to the shed and provide me with keys, then later I was told that they need to do an “audit” of the sheds to establish who was using what. To date, no audit has taken place, no keys have been provided to me and the other resident is still making use of the shed. I am mainly being ignored by the landlord now and at best their answer is just “we will get back to you”.
What I am trying to find out is what my rights are with regards to getting my shed back. Am I legally allowed to force the lock? Or ask the other resident to vacate within a certain amount of days? Please can you tell me what action I can take? Could I use an outside storage unit of a similar size and send the bill to my landlord? Or am i due any sort of refund from the landlord for all this time not being able to use the shed?
Thanks ever so much for your help.
I am seeking advice on a housing matter.
I live in a block of flats, as part of the tenancy, each flat is provided with a bike shed on the ground floor, the sheds are numbered to correspond with your flat number. I have lived at this address for 10+ years and for a number of years I did not make use of my allocated shed at all. One of the other residents removed my door number from the door of my shed and began using it to store their own things. Approx 2 years ago I needed to start using my shed so I contacted the landlord and also personally asked the resident to vacate my shed. 2 years on and this resident still has her own padlocks applied to the door and is storing their belongings in my shed. The landlord first stated to me that they would force entry to the shed and provide me with keys, then later I was told that they need to do an “audit” of the sheds to establish who was using what. To date, no audit has taken place, no keys have been provided to me and the other resident is still making use of the shed. I am mainly being ignored by the landlord now and at best their answer is just “we will get back to you”.
What I am trying to find out is what my rights are with regards to getting my shed back. Am I legally allowed to force the lock? Or ask the other resident to vacate within a certain amount of days? Please can you tell me what action I can take? Could I use an outside storage unit of a similar size and send the bill to my landlord? Or am i due any sort of refund from the landlord for all this time not being able to use the shed?
Thanks ever so much for your help.
If you complained when you noticed the damage it is up to the HA to sort out. In your initial post it sounded like it had been over most of your 10+ yr tenancy and you decided 2 years ago to use it....so ....still don't break in though, but you should be a bit firmer with the HA, are you putting your requests in writing ??
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