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Yeah, but that would only apply to certain hours I suspect.

My view is that all buildings have managing agents, thus they would be responsible for informing emergency services. It is the managing agents that change codes here in this building as an example. A central database could log details. I'm under no illusion that this would not be any easy task...

I think it's a problem in a number of older builds. But I think there should be a statutory requirement, subject to certain legal restraints, for emergency services access remotely. UK law is normally good at this.

Exactly. This is my point. I feel it should be mandatory for private blocks to provide access codes. Such access, and reasons for, is bound by statute. But having witnessed an ambulance crew being halted by inability to gain access once, it is such a crucial issue.

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I don't agree. They are not gaining access to individual homes. Just the chance to get into a premises. There are laws about how access works. I cannot think of a single person in my own block who would object. Except, perhaps, the turd who likes using his girlfriend as a punch bag.

At 2.15 this morning my intercom went. The video showed two police officers standing there. I knew immediately why. There is a flat along the corridor where a very angry man often kicks the shit out of his girlfriend. They had been called to a domestic. Or to put it more accurately, him behaving...