Shout it from the rooftops.

Actually, don’t.

Shout this from the ground instead: London is cracking down on rooftop parties.

Or, as some students apparently call it, brewfing, sitting on a roof and drinking beer.

Faced with too many inebriated students climbing to the rooftops to party during Homecoming and other celebrations, city hall is set to pass a bylaw making the practice illegal.

“It is a matter of protecting people from themselves,” Ward 6 Coun. Phil Squire said. “Generally, I don’t like to tell people what to do, but in this case it was getting out of hand. It was a party on a roof.”

The target isn’t the occasional individual heading to the rooftops for, as the Drifters sang in the 1960s, “a little paradise that’s trouble proof.”

Instead, the focus is the kind of activity police and bylaw officers have seen in recent years, especially during Western University’s Homecoming in 2016.

In areas near the university, officers witnessed 15 rooftop parties.

Squire, who represents the university neighbourhoods, said he’s seen a few of his own during the past couple of years.

“I was amazed at the number of people up on very steep roofs and inebriated,” he said. “It seems to be an attraction. I don’t know why.”

In a report going to council’s community and protective ­services committee Wednesday, city staff detail the obvious dangers of roof parties, which students apparently need a bylaw to avoid.

“With slanted roofs and flat roofs with no guardrail systems, there is always the potential of a slip and fall causing bodily harm,” the report reads.

The report also points to another potential disaster.

“Social gatherings on roofs (slanted or flat) create a potentially dangerous condition of roof collapse as the roofs are designed for a certain snow load and not for public assembly.”

The report notes brewfing caused a roof collapse in California.

City staff recommend social gatherings on rooftops be added to London’s public nuisance bylaw, passed in May 2012 after the riotous St. Patrick’s Day party on Flemming Drive near Fanshawe College.

That bylaw allows police and bylaw officers to tackle a wide range of group misconduct that creates a “nuisance party.”

If an officer determines the gathering qualifies as a nuisance party, they can issue a warning, order the activity to stop or slap down a $750 fine.

rrichmond@postmedia.com