About fire safety in council homes
Overview
Our highest priority is our resident's safety. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure fire safety, which are reviewed on a regular basis.
You may see our officers making regular checks of communal areas. This is to make sure:
- corridors, stairwells and escape routes are clear
- door closers are working on fire doors
- fire action notices are on display in your block.
What we do to make your home safe
To keep your home safe we regularly carry out a range of works and surveys including:
- asbestos surveys to ensure large scale works or capital works can be carried out safely
- structural surveys
- electrical testing to identify any repairs needed and full electrical rewiring programmes
- carbon monoxide detector installations
- mains-operated smoke detector installations for properties without smoke detectors or with battery-operated detectors.
Fire safety
To ensure your safety we have:
- a strong fire safety management strategy
- invested £4 million over the last 3 years in fire safety programmes
- fitted all our properties with smoke alarms
- STG, RGE and Bell - providers of repairs and maintenance work - on hand to fit any missing or faulty fire alarms. You can call the Housing Repairs Team on 01634 333 601 or freephone 0800 073 0073.