Safety related access
Ealing Council is responsible for ensuring effective and legal access to properties when it is necessary to undertake safety related works to meet its emergency, statutory and regulatory requirements.
Our 'no access' policy has been developed to ensure that Ealing Council is fully compliant with its statutory and regulatory obligations.
It applies where we need immediate or emergency access or access to carry out works but the tenant, leaseholder or other occupier will not let us in.
It sets out the approach we take to gaining access for essential works, particularly those relating to the health and safety of tenants, leaseholders, and other members of the public (and as part of this, also preventing damage to buildings), ensuring a lawful and proportionate response where reasonable access requests are denied or ignored.
This policy does not apply to those activities that relate to a breach of tenancy and other occupancy agreements for antisocial behaviour or failure to pay rent where other avenues of resolution exist.