Ledbury Estate

Fire Risk Assessments

Fire Risk Assessments (Type 1)

Fire Risk Assessment (Type 4)

A Type 4 fire risk assessment is more thorough than a Type 1 fire risk assessment (the type carried out on all housing stock and known as an FRA). Southwark Council has carried out Type 4 fire risk assessments (PDF, 963kb) on the Ledbury Towers.

A Type 4 fire risk assessment includes taking samples from the building itself in what is known as a ‘destructive inspection’. This helps us to see if previous changes to the building have had any impact on the compartmentation. Before a destructive inspection is carried out, the risk of disturbing asbestos is always considered.

Type 4 inspections are usually only carried out in specific, limited circumstances. However, Southwark will be going beyond current guidance and will be doing Type 4 surveys to all blocks paying particular attention to those in programmed works.

Southwark Council makes sure that all issues are included in the report - no matter how minor. As a result, there's an expectation that a number of tasks will be found due to issues associated with buildings such as movement, expansion and shrinkage.

The fact that a number of tasks are listed will not mean that the building is in any immediate risk, and it would not be unusual for any building following an inspection of this type.

Notification of Fire Safety Deficiencies

These are letters from the London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority that set out any concerns they have with individual blocks. They set out the action that they want a landlord to take and give a deadline. In the case of these notices, the deadline was 8 March 2018 and the actions were included in the Fire Risk Assessments that are dated December 2017 and published above.

Page last updated: 05 April 2024

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