HMO Fire Risk Assessments in Sunderland and the North East

Most landlords hold their gas, electrical and energy certificates. Fire safety is the part that tends to be missing, out of date or held as an informal note rather than a written assessment. It is also the part local authority licensing teams look at most closely, because it is the area with the clearest link to occupant safety in shared housing.

A written fire risk assessment is the document that shows you have considered the risk properly and acted on it. It is expected for the common parts of HMOs and for other residential premises with shared areas, and it should be reviewed as the property and its occupancy change.

Sunderland Landlord Compliance is a managed property compliance service and consultancy. We are not the assessor. We source, instruct and coordinate appropriately qualified and insured independent fire risk assessors, confirm the scope and the price with you in writing, arrange access, and return the completed written assessment to you.

One point of contact. The right specialist. Clear next steps. If the assessment lists actions, we can quote and coordinate those works too, so you are not left holding a list of recommendations and a set of trades to find.

A fire risk assessment rarely arrives on its own. Most HMO instructions also involve a EICR, a Gas Safety Record, an EPC and alarm records, and often a review of the wider HMO compliance position.

Where the condition of the property itself is in question, for example following tenant complaints or council contact, an independent HHSRS property assessment is often the better starting point, and we can arrange both together.

Fire risk assessment coordination is available across Sunderland, Washington, Houghton-le-Spring, Seaham, South Shields, Gateshead, Newcastle, Durham, Chester-le-Street, Hartlepool and the surrounding North East.