I live in a row of 12 terrace houses ( no 11) all lofts are open and rats run freely through them. As I rent the property is the landlord responsible for closing my loft with deviding walls.
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Broadly speaking, the landlord is responsible for keeping vermin out of the property.
I don't see how they can do that without a wall in the loft.
However, the landlord might find it cheaper to change tenants than do some messy building work (which would have to comply with today's building regs.)When I post, I am expressing an opinion - feel free to disagree, I have been wrong before.
Please don't act on my suggestions without checking with a grown-up (ideally some kind of expert).
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The strangest one I've ever seen was in Stoke-on-Trent. (30+ years ago).
A 10 foot deep void (think Cellar) running the full length/width of a row of terraced houses.
It was brick lined with a vee'd floor and a channel down the centre, complete with running stream that came out of one arched opening, ran the full length, and disppeared into another arch.
(Presumably the next row of terraced had the same under it, and so on).
The house purchasers knew nothing about it until they took some floorboards up intending to run some C/H pipes.
Amazing what Victorian builders did. Nowadays house builders would just run the stream through a concrete pipe.
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