Fire safety

The Building Safety Act came into law in 2022. The act 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 36 of our high-rise buildings have been assigned a dedicated building safety manager to help oversee the structural, and fire and safety management. The team are always out and about on our estates chatting with residents and hosting various roadshows and events.

As a team, they have several key duties, including:

• carrying out regular building safety inspections
• ensuring that important building safety case documents are kept up to date 

Contact

Building safety managers:

• email: [email protected]

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, known as 'building safety cases', which will include vital information about:

• the safety of your building
• its structural details
• how the building is managed

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 related safety issues