Property News · August 22, 2014

Landlord fined for renting room that could only be entered on all fours


Tenants would need to be less than 2 feet 4 inches tall to walk to the Hendon room’s doorMany people crawl into bed at the end of a long day, but tenants in a north London house had to crawl on all fours to access their rented room.Barnet council has taken the landlord of a house in Sunningfields Road, Hendon, to court after discovering he was renting out a room that could not be accessed standing up. The head height along the course of the staircase was between 0.7m (2ft 3in) and 1.2m (3ft 11in) and the door to the room was also reduced in size. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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