Fire risk assessments in Brent

We carry out fire risk assessments in Brent for block owners, managing agents, private landlords and businesses. Brent is one of the few London boroughs where almost every private let now needs a licence, which puts the condition of rented homes, fire precautions included, under closer scrutiny than in most places.

The London Fire Brigade enforces the Fire Safety Order in Brent. The work here splits roughly in two: tall, recently built blocks around Wembley Park and the wider Wembley regeneration area, and older terraces and conversions in Kilburn, Willesden, Harlesden and Kensal Green. We also inspect fire doors and service alarms, emergency lighting and AOVs in both kinds of building.

Where we work in Brent

• Wembley
• Wembley Park
• Alperton
• Kilburn
• Queen’s Park
• Willesden
• Harlesden
• Kensal Green
• Neasden
• Dollis Hill
• Kingsbury
• Stonebridge
• Sudbury
• Cricklewood (Brent side)

Wembley Park towers and Kilburn conversions

Wembley Park has become one of the largest build-to-rent districts in the country. Quintain’s scheme around the stadium has outline consent for about 8,500 homes, most of them in mid-rise and high-rise blocks, and many are let and managed by a single operator. Buildings like these carry the full set of high-rise duties, and the fire risk assessment has to sit alongside the smoke control design, evacuation strategy and building safety records the owner already holds.

South of the North Circular the stock is older. Kilburn, Queen’s Park and Willesden have streets of large Victorian houses divided into flats over the past century, while Harlesden and Stonebridge mix terraced private lets with post-war and rebuilt estates. In a Kilburn conversion the questions are often about what was done when the house was split: whether the stair was enclosed, whether ceilings between flats give any real fire resistance, and whether anyone has taken responsibility for maintaining the communal alarm.