Boxes attached to poles and cycle stands causing trip hazards, says council
Key storage boxes have become very popular for holiday apartment letting across Europe, the council said, “as landlords do not have to meet the guests in person”. Instead, the host provides guests with a code to open the box and retrieve the keys.
The council’s principal concern is that the boxes represent a trip hazard, which “gives rise to issues regarding liability for any accidents, trips or other injuries in the public realm”. The council has the power under the Road Act to remove the boxes, but it is asking councillors this week to endorse an official policy “that lockboxes being used in the public realm will be removed and destroyed”.
It is recommending warnings be issued for a six-week period “to prevent visitors being stranded with no accommodation on arrival”. A date will be set for a removal blitz by council workers, and the main online short-term rental providers will be contacted “requesting that their clients are notified that the lockboxes will be removed from the public realm starting from the agreed date, and to encourage more effective controls on access to properties”.
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