Overview
We have a legal obligation to manage the risk of fire in any property covered under the Fire Safety Order. This includes properties with communal areas such as high-rise buildings, independent senior living schemes, sheltered schemes and low-rise buildings.
Building safety for higher risk buildings
We take safety in our high-rise buildings (HRBs) seriously and thoroughly conduct fire risk assessments, fire door inspections, and compartmentation surveys to ensure the integrity of fire protection measures, such as walls, ceilings, and floors.
These actions are essential to containing fires to one location and preventing their spread, should one start. Maintaining these standards is a top priority.
Each of our high-rise buildings has its own Building Safety Information Pack. If you live in one of these buildings, please take the time to read the pack for your building. It contains important information to help keep you and your household safe.
We may update these details so please check this page from time to time to make sure you have the latest information.
- Drake Court - Building safety information
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- Grenville Court - Building safety information
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- Nelson Court - Building safety information
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- Rodney Court - Building safety information
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- Sterte Court 1-57 - Building safety information
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- Sterte Court 58-114 - Building safety information
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Your Home, Your Safety campaign
The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) runs a Your Home, Your Safety campaign to let residents of HRBs in England know about their rights and give some reassurance about how fire and structure safety risks are being managed. The campaign has helpful information if you live in one of our HRBs.
If you live in one of our HRBs, our BCP Homes high rise engagement strategy sets out how you can get involved in decisions about your building's safety.
If you have any questions or concerns about building safety in our HRBs, independent senior living schemes, or low-rise buildings, please call us on 0800 028 1870.
How we keep your home safe
Some of the ways we're keeping your home safe include:
- up-to-date fire risk assessments in flatted properties - these are completed by a Fire Risk Assessor via our in-house team or by an external contractor, we will carry out further fire safety works to address any findings or recommendations
- a testing and maintenance programme for all fire safety measures in flatted properties
- compartmentation in flatted properties such as fire doors and fire stopping materials, these are additional barriers to the building structure that prevent the spread of fire
- regular inspections at our flatted properties to ensure that the fire protection measures installed are tested and maintained to work efficiently as required
- annual fire door inspections on flat entrance doors and communal fire doors, in our HRBs these are inspected every 3 months
- sprinklers in our HRBs and any premises where it has been identified as required
- recording who needs support in the event of a fire and keeping a profile of people in the area