Fire safety in high rise buildings

We have a legal obligation to manage the risk of fire in any property covered under the Fire Safety Order including properties with communal areas such as high-rise buildings, Independent Living Schemes, and low-rise buildings.

We take safety in our tower blocks very seriously. To reduce the risk of fire in your home, the walls, doors, and floors are all designed to stop fire and smoke spreading. 

Here are some of the ways we’re keeping your home safe:

• All our properties have an up to date fire risk assessment that an independent, qualified assessor completes. We'll carry out further fire safety works to address any findings or recommendations.
• We have a testing and maintenance programme for all fire safety measures at your building.
• Our buildings have compartmentation such as fire doors and fire stopping materials (in areas like our dry risers and service shafts) - these are additional barriers to the building structure that prevent the spread of fire.
• We complete regular inspections at our properties, including monthly walk around checks at our high rise buildings. These help to identify any repairs required and remove items that are blocking any means of escape, especially fire evacuation routes. 
• We carry out fire door inspections every year on your flat door and every three months on the corridor fire doors.
• We’ve fitted sprinklers in our high rise blocks and independent living schemes.

Fire risk assessments

As your landlord, we complete an annual fire risk assessments at our three tower blocks.

These reports highlight recommendations and actions that we need to take to reduce potential fire risks.

We're committed to keeping you and your neighbours safe, and we're progressing the recommendations in each fire risk assessment.

You can read the fire risk assessments for all blocks on the 'Fire risk assessment page'.

Please contact us if you’d like to discuss these reports. You can call us on 01226 787878 or email firesafety@berneslaihomes.co.uk 

Get involved in building safety where you live

If you live in one of our high rise residential buildings – Albion, Buckley, or Britannia Houses, we have a Resident Engagement Strategy that sets out how we’ll work with tenants on issues of building safety for new and existing buildings.

If you’d like to get involved, email: engagement-buildingsafety@berneslaihomes.co.uk