Through the use of small items, like rocks, sticks, chewing gum and other items; people have made the existing fireescapes into points of access and rooms of leasure.
Some tennants complain that the stairwells are being used for antisocial gatherings, with alcohol, drugs and general loiteirng.
1: This pose a serous risk to life as the integrity of the emergency escape routes are vital in the case of an emergency.
2: The use of these now accessible spaces are being used by unwanted people who tenants describe as trouble makers.
3: These manipulations erode the successive barriers of increasing privacy for the homes and altering percieved ownership.
This becomes especially worrying, when theese same systems ow walkways and fireescapes can not guarantee their function. Bicycles and rubbish blocking the paths and doors jammed or manipulated.