i think
we are talking about the same thing. effectively, if you rent from the council, they are allowed to serve notice on you requiring you to give them access. if you refuse or deny them access, they can apply to court.

i'd need to know a lot more about your agreement with the council and the type of notice/works they want to carry out to be more specific, but the bottom line is usually, the legal system weighs up your right to peace and quiet against the landlord's right to do what he wants with his own property. for example, if you have a flat and the council wants to install digital tv to the whole block in one go, rather than all of the block minus one individual flat, provided you were given reasonable notice and the installation was not a big disturbing job, the landlord would win.

this being said, there are restrictions on what works a s54 notice can be used for.

in all honesty, i'd be inclined to swallow it, i think, but then it's not my flat!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 17 Sep 2008, 9:51, Reply)