Legal position re access to gas meter?

Fire_Fox

agirlinwinter wrote: »

Thanks everybody for your advice.

When I purchased the flat, the vendor said the owner of the ground floor flat would give me access to the meter. When I first moved in, she opened the gate to let me read the meter. Since then, I've asked her regularly if I can read the meter and she's flaky - sometimes she does, sometimes she has her phone switched off or just doesn't turn up when she says she will.

I had a chat with the freeholder yesterday, who is very nice. He's going to request the owner of the ground floor flat has a new lock put on the gate and leaves a key with him whilst the flat remains unoccupied, so I can read my meter and the gas supply can be turned off in an emergency. I've impressed upon him that his situation is a safety issue for everyone in the building if there's a gas leak.

It's irrelevant what the vendor said: they were trying to shift the flat! Second part sounds promising tho. Good luck!