Fire Risk Assessments in Nottingham

Fire risk assessments across Nottingham city

Nottingham is a dense university city. The University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University together bring a very large student population, and much of that lives in converted terraces in Lenton, Radford, Arboretum and Forest Fields. Nottingham City Council runs additional HMO licensing across most of the city, so shared houses that fall outside mandatory licensing can still need a licence, and a written fire risk assessment is one of the documents officers routinely ask landlords to show.

The commercial side is just as varied: Lace Market warehouses turned into offices and flats, bars and restaurants around Hockley and the Old Market Square, and retail units with flats above on the main roads out of the centre. Mixed use buildings like these are where compartmentation between the shop and the residential floors matters most.

Enforcement of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 in the city falls to Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service. If you have had a letter from their fire protection team, send it with your enquiry and the assessment can be scoped around the points they raised.

On the city's edge, larger industrial and logistics sites along the A610 and around Colwick and Basford bring different risks: stored goods, forklift charging, and big single spaces where a fire can grow quickly. For those buildings the assessment focuses on how people are warned, how far they have to travel to an exit, and how stock is kept away from escape routes.

Fire Risk Assessments questions for Nottingham