deck-access

adjective

1. (of a block of flats) having a continuous inset balcony at each level onto which the front door of each flat on that level opens

Example Sentences

When I was a student in Manchester I lived in a place called Hulme, a sprawling concrete estate of industrially produced deck-access housing that had been declared unfit for families in the mid-70s and had subsequently descended into oddly bohemian squalor.

From The Guardian

The whole enclave is an anarchic contrast to the anonymity of the system-built deck-access slabs that usually supplanted the prefabs, now being demolished as uninhabitable and impossible to maintain.

From The Guardian