Building Safety Information – High Rise Schemes
Building safety in our high-rise homes
Our high-rise buildings are subject to additional requirements under the Building Safety Act 2022. These requirements are designed to ensure that fire and structural safety risks are identified, assessed and properly managed, and that residents are kept informed and involved in decisions about the safety of their building.
We have arrangements in place to manage building safety, including regular building inspections, fire risk assessments, structural assessments and checks of important fire and safety systems. Where risks are identified, we take appropriate action to manage and reduce them. Our building safety arrangements are recorded within the safety case for each of our high-rise buildings.
Hadrian Noble, our Head of Property and Building Safety Manager, leads the day-to-day management of building safety. We also work with Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, specialist consultants and competent contractors to help manage fire and structural safety risks. Your building safety case records regular engagement with the Fire and Rescue Service and the use of specialist external fire-safety expertise
Residents also have an important part to play. We will provide information about building safety, listen to residents’ views and provide opportunities to be involved in decisions that affect the safety of their building. Our Building Safety Resident Engagement Strategy explains how residents can get involved, obtain building safety information and raise concerns
Residents of higher-risk buildings also have legal responsibilities. They must not do anything that creates a significant building-safety risk, interfere with or damage relevant safety equipment, and must provide certain safety information when reasonably requested.
If you have a concern about fire safety, structural safety or any other aspect of the safety of your building, please tell us. We want residents to report concerns, ask questions and let us know if they need additional support.
Here’s our Building Safety Complaints Leaflet
You can also take a look at Fire safety in your home | Housing Ombudsman
Information about your Building
Information about fire safety in each of Stoke on Trent Housing Society’s high-rise buildings can be accessed below:
