Fire risk assessments in Kent

We cover Kent, focusing on the towns within easy reach of London: Dartford and Ebbsfleet, Gravesend, Swanley and the towns along the Bromley border, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Maidstone. Our work there is for landlords, letting agents, freeholders and managing agents, and for the shops and small businesses in those town centres. Typical buildings include Victorian terraces let as shared houses, older houses split into flats, and newer apartment blocks around Dartford and Ebbsfleet.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service enforces fire safety law across Kent County Council’s area and in Medway, which is a separate unitary council. The same range of work applies throughout: fire risk assessments, fire door inspections, fire alarm and emergency lighting servicing, and AOV checks in blocks with smoke ventilation.

Where we work in Kent

• Dartford
• Ebbsfleet
• Gravesend (Gravesham)
• Swanley
• Westerham
• Sevenoaks
• Tonbridge
• Tonbridge & Malling
• West Malling
• Maidstone

Thames-side terraces and commuter towns

Along the Thames, Dartford and Gravesend have long streets of Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many now let privately and some converted to shared houses or flats; Gravesham Borough Council had 107 licensed HMOs at the end of March 2026. Ebbsfleet, between the two towns, is adding new homes, including apartment blocks with shared stairs, lifts and smoke ventilation. In converted property the assessment usually turns on three questions: is the escape stair protected, are the doors onto it genuinely fire-resisting, and does detection cover every room that opens onto it?

Further south, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge are commuter towns with a mix of period houses divided into flats and small purpose-built blocks, while Maidstone, the county town, has flats above shops and buildings converted from offices. Where offices have become homes, the building was not designed around people sleeping in it, so the separation between flats, the protection of the stair and the type of alarm system all need checking.