7.2.18  Common Parts and Services to Flatted Dwellings

a)  The Contractor must ensure that satisfactory means of escape is maintained to all Common Parts.

b)  Lift installations must be satisfactorily maintained and appropriate records of regular safety inspections must be kept available within plant rooms.

c)  Individual entrance doors to the Common Parts (where installed) must afford adequate security to Tenants and must not be accessible to unauthorised entry.  All entrance doors and lobby areas must be adequately lit.

d)  The Contractor must maintain adequate communal lighting systems (including emergency lighting systems).

e)  Communal terrestrial television reception facilities must be maintained so as to maintain a good quality television reception for terrestrial channels.  For the avoidance of doubt this includes the Contractor installing any such digital systems that might be required to ensure continuity of television services beyond the point at which analogue services are switched off41.

f)  All flatted Dwellings above ground floor must have access to a waste disposal outlet in accordance with the requirements of legislation and the waste collection authority's requirements.  The capacity of waste disposal outlets provided must continue to comply with the current Authority waste collection strategy.

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41 Once the digital switchover is completed, this line can be deleted.