Well I am on the EC and as well as the bikes and child’s car seat under the stairwell, we’ve had one or two prams parked near one of the street entrance doors. None of the above are blocking anything. I’m thinking too we might look at wall or ceiling bike racks in the car park – but we really have almost no spare space there even to do that!
I’ve put it on the agenda for our next EC meeting but I’m really not sure too much can be done. Everyone has a right to use the common property. Is parking a bike or a pram on common property considered exclusive use? They are not locked or chained to anything. I can’t see how they are a fire hazard in themselves unless they are blocking an exit path. They might be considered an eyesore and clutter. The bikes also might be leaving some marks on the wall, but the prams don’t. There’s 20 steps to take the pram up the pram owner’s apartment – so I can see why they’d want to leave it near the street door.
If we ban the bikes (eg claiming that they damage common property), the owners might say ‘but you allow prams’. If we ban the prams too we might look pretty mean, so we’d need to have good reasons. And I’m not sure we (the EC) can just ban prams, if they are not blocking any path and are not damaging common property. We (the OC) do have the right to make a rule “for the purpose of the control, management, administration, use or enjoyment of the common property or of a lot.” But that needs a Special Resolution.