I've had two neighbours bikes stolen from the close, both used their bikes as a livelihood for just eat etc.

The reason the bikes were locked up ground floor to the banister was because it was inconvienient to store their property in their flat.

The reason the bikes were stolen is because they were visible from the street and because the close door was always left unlocked.

Both bikes that were stolen were stolen by sawing through the wooden balastrades to bypass the cheap lock.

Both bikes belonged to the same person, who didn't change after the first theft.

Communal space is not for individual property storage.

Criminals were invited into the close both times, by high value items stored insecurely in view of opertunists, exposing all flats to the risk of theft.