Fire safety check timetable
Find out how often we check fire safety in our buildings and what type of checks we carry out.
Types of checks
To help reduce the risks to the safety of residents, including risks from fire, we make regular checks on our buildings. Read about the types of checks and how often they take place.
| Type of check | Building | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Fire risk assessments | High-rise building – 18m or seven floors or more | Every year |
| Fire risk assessments | All other properties with communal areas | One to three years |
| Flat front entrance door checks | Blocks that are more than 11 metres high | Every year |
| Communal fire door checks | Blocks that are more than 11 metres high | Every three months |
| Landlord gas safety checks | All properties with gas | Every year |
| Electrical inspection and testing | All tenanted homes and landlord-owned homes | Every five years |
| Lift planned preventative maintenance inspections | All buildings with passenger lifts | Monthly |
| Water hygiene risk assessment (prevention of Legionnaire's Disease) | All buildings with communal water tanks | Every four years |
| Water hygiene (sampling and monitoring) | All buildings with communal water tanks | Every six months |
| Asbestos condition surveys | Communal areas | One to five years |
| Lightning protection | High-rise and higher-risk properties | Every year |
| General fire protection – dry/wet riser, fire alarms, emergency lighting | Various properties | To industry standard |
| Damp and mould checks | All properties | As required |
Health and safety
As a landlord we take our responsibility for your safety very seriously. We use guidance from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and work closely with the London Fire Brigade to make sure that our buildings are safe and that our residents are kept up to date with the latest information.
We are also responsible for 87 buildings that are over 18 metres or seven floors in height and fall within the scope and enhanced Building Safety Case regimes under Part 4 of the Building Safety Act 2022.
The Building Safety Act 2022, Fire Safety Act 2021 and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 put in place most of the recommendations that came after the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017. We have started a Building and Fire Safety Board to help make the changes and measures needed in the new legislation. Read more on our higher-risk buildings page.
Many older blocks of flats and converted street properties will be fitted with the interlinked smoke/heat detectors in each flat to support a simultaneous evacuation strategy in the event of a fire. We will carry out regular safety tests and maintenance of these systems.