Fire risk assessments in Harrow

We carry out fire risk assessments in Harrow for landlords, letting agents, block managers, residents’ management companies and businesses. Harrow is a largely suburban borough, but it has a sizeable market in family houses let as shared homes, and its town centre and Wealdstone are being reshaped with new apartment buildings.

The London Fire Brigade enforces fire safety law here, and Harrow Council licenses HMOs and, in several wards, ordinary private lets. We also inspect fire doors and service fire alarms, emergency lighting and AOVs in shared buildings.

Where we work in Harrow

• Harrow town centre
• Wealdstone
• Harrow on the Hill
• Greenhill
• Marlborough
• South Harrow
• Roxeth
• Rayners Lane
• North Harrow
• Pinner
• Hatch End
• Stanmore
• Edgware
• Kenton

Suburban shared houses and a changing town centre

Most of Harrow was built out as Metro-land between the wars, with semi-detached and terraced houses along the Metropolitan and Bakerloo lines. Many are now let to sharers, sometimes with extra bedrooms in a loft or a converted garage. In a house like this the assessment looks at whether every bedroom can reach the front door without passing through a kitchen or living room, whether smoke alarms are interlinked, and whether the doors onto the stair close properly.

The town centre and Wealdstone are the focus of the borough’s growth, with former offices, car parks and industrial land giving way to taller blocks of flats, and some older office buildings converted to housing. These buildings bring a different set of checks: compartmentation between the flats and any commercial ground floor, smoke control in the corridors, and the height-based duties for blocks above 11 metres.