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Hello, I live in a converted building which comprises of two combined terrace houses (A and B) that resulted into 14 flats, of which 11 share a common entrance from the ground floor of terrace house A, and the 11 flats are spread across 5 floors from the ground (1 flat), 1st (2 flats), mezzanine (1 flat), 2nd (2 flats), 3rd (2 flats), 4th (2 flats), and 5th (1 flat) floors. The remaining 3 flats have their own private entrance. One of them has its entrance from the ground floor of the terraced house B, and the other two flats are basement flats located at the basements of A and B. We plan to install a fire alarm system inside the entrance of the building A, We also plan to instal heat sensors and sounders in eaach of the 11 flats sharing building A's common entrance. Shoudl we also put heat sensors and sounders in the other three flats that have their own private entrance and do not share any common area with the other 11 flats? The three flats are located at the entire basement of the building (A and B), as well as half of the ground floor of the building (only B), and all other 11 flats are located above them. Should there be a fire in one of these three flats, I presume that the residents in the rest of the buidling should be alerted. What do you think? Thanks, West

I live in a flat of a building that has 14 flats. The building is the result of the conversion of two combined terraced houses, where one of the terrace entrances provides access to 11 flats (see entrance in middle of photo). The service road in front of the terraces is private, and each terrace houses owns the section of the road in front of it. Thus, parking partially on the (private) pavement cannot be subject to any Council regulations. We recently purchased the freehold of the building. Sometimes, the cars (which have car permits from the building) are parked so close to the entrance of the building that it is difficult to enter or exit the building (e.g. see gray car in photo). Personally, I would rather not have any cars parked outside the entrance. Do I have any reasonable ground to argue that based on fire safety regulations the space outside the entrance must be unobstructed?