Shared Space Access Requirements

If you live in a shared house, which is commonly known as a House In Multiple Occupation (HMO), then your landlord has no legal obligation to notify you of access to communal areas.

This is because your tenancy agreement is to rent the room in the property and give you use of the common areas. Therefore you have no legal right to the common areas.

Although here at myhouse Agents we will endeavour to give you notice, out of courtesy, whenever this is reasonably Practical!

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