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It's a difficult question.Simple answer: No Sally. It's an implied term of your tenancy agreement that the landlord provides you with access, and that means 24hours a day. If the landlord won't listen you probably have to sue for breach of contract but I'm not at all sure about that. I suspect that if you just cut the padlock off it would be criminal damage so that's probably not the first thing to go doing without some sound advice.