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Depends whether the balcony is in fact part of the premises demised by the lease - it's likely it is but not guaranteed and may not include the structure of the balcony - and if it is then the landlord's rights of access and the scope of the landlord's repairing obligations depend on the terms of the lease. Without a copy of the lease it's not possible to answer the question.
Brommers-
Thank you - suspected the answer might be it depends .
Fwiw they do have to ‘enter’ the balcony.
Asked the foreman to get his lads to knock on the front door the next time they need to work on it to give us a bit of notice on the basis of 10 week old baby and freaked out* mum. They said they would - will believe it when I see it :)
* more like slightly irked - to be fair
Howard
Leasehold question, probably for @danstuff and @BleakRefs :
The agent of the freeholder is doing mostly external, communal works on the block. Part of this work involves doing work on the balconies of each property in the block. The balconies are inbuilt, rather than exterior overhanging. The work involves surveying the balcony walls for cracks and defects, removing the offending plasterwork, then making good. 'then making good' is an assumption on which I bloody well hope I'm right on.
So the question: what kind of permission does the freeholder or their agent require from the leaseholder in order to do the work on the balconies....on an ad-hoc schedule over the course of a month?
The question hinges on my assumption that the balconies, unlike say the communal stairwell, are the 'property' of the leaseholder, and that permission is required to 'enter' them.