Mr. Niall Cussen:

There are genuine issues around compelling a local authority which has particular jurisdictions and functions in taking over private space, such as lift shafts and corridors, which are not part of the public realm. They are areas to which people have normal access, but are more properly the job of the owners of those properties who need to come together, with the relevant interests, and figure out a strategy to deal with it and so on. We would perhaps solve one problem but create many more. We have to carefully examine the interface between the multi-unit developments legislation and planning legislation and make sure there is a clean, but understandable, transition from one to the other.