Hi, I live in a shared house with 5 other people. All of the rooms have locks installed that can only be used from the outside, but 3 of the rooms have had the locks disabled with this handle thingy. The landlord says that this is due to fire safety regulations. In the last three weeks two houses on our road have been burgled, one was just two doors down, so we really feel like we should be able to lock our rooms, even if it is with a combination lock or something. One bedroom is the downstairs front room which also has the front door in it, although it is never used (we access the house via a side gate to the garden and a back door), and is also marked as a fire escape. Do we have a case to request that the landlord re-enables the locks? We don't feel at all safe leaving any of our things in our rooms.
Any advice would be appreciated