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Doors near internal common area

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Hi. Our block is a 1930s block with an internal staircase (from which some flats are accessed). The internal common area landings also lead to external decks. The original common area doors that lead to these decks are fire doors. Some of these deck access doors have been replaced with non-fire rated doors.
 

In addition, some front doors to flats on the external decks are about 1.2m from the deck access doors. Some of these are also not fire doors. No other flats need to pass the front doors to these flats to escape.
 

My question is, do the front doors to flats that are this close to the common area access doors need to be replaced (1) if the common area access door is a fire door, and (2) if the common area access door IS a fire door?

 

Thanks. 

I'd be minded not to make the original provision worse by keeping fire doors to the internal stair, but if the deck flats have two directions of escape would be less bothered about these - difficult to be definitive without seeing them

 

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