Fire safety

The Building Safety Act, whaich came into law in January 2022, sets out safety requirements for landlords of higher-risk buildings. Higher-risk buildings are defined as being more than 18 metres tall, or seven storeys high, with two or more residential units.

Building safety managers

All 34 of our high-rise buildings have been assigned a dedicated building safety manager to help oversee the structural and fire and safety management. As a team, they have several key duties, including carrying out regular building safety inspections and ensuring that important building safety case documents are kept up to date.

If you would like to get in touch with one of our building safety managers please email them at: [email protected].

The team are always out and about on our estates chatting with residents and hosting various roadshows and events.

What does the act mean for tenants and leaseholders?

The act will not affect the day-to-day lives of our residents. Ultimately, the act is there to add an extra layer of scrutiny of landlords, and to ensure we, as your landlord, are doing all we can to keep your building safe.

As part of the new requirements each resident living in a higher-risk building will receive a pack of documents, which will include vital information about the safety of your building, its structural details, and how its managed. These will be known as building safety cases. These packs will be updated and sent every four years in accordance with new legislation.

The act has also introduced protections for qualifying leaseholders including:

• not paying towards the cost of removing dangerous cladding on buildings
• capping the amount that leaseholders will contribute to the cost of fixing non-cladding relates safety issues