Fire risk assessments in Surrey

We cover Surrey, focusing on the boroughs closest to London: Elmbridge, Epsom & Ewell, Reigate & Banstead, Spelthorne, Runnymede, Woking and Guildford. T&T Fire Safety works there for block freeholders, residents’ management companies, HMO landlords, care providers and commercial occupiers. The county has fewer tall buildings than London, but a growing number of town-centre apartment schemes, older villas and offices converted to flats, and shared houses around Guildford and Egham.

Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, part of Surrey County Council, enforces fire safety law across the county. After Grenfell its officers checked materials on Surrey buildings over 18 metres, and it now has a team that works only on buildings above 11 metres.

Where we work in Surrey

• Elmbridge (Weybridge, Walton-on-Thames, Esher)
• Epsom & Ewell
• Reigate & Banstead
• Spelthorne (Staines, Ashford, Sunbury)
• Runnymede (Egham, Addlestone)
• Woking
• Guildford

Woking towers and commuter conversions

Woking has changed fastest. Victoria Square Residential Tower 1, at 34 floors and about 112 metres, is now the tallest building in the borough, taking the title from Export House, and a 37-storey block on Goldsworth Road has been approved on appeal. Buildings of this height carry the full set of high-rise duties: a secure information box, wayfinding signage, monthly lift and equipment checks and, since April 2026, residential evacuation plans.

Elsewhere Surrey’s stock is mostly commuter housing: large Edwardian and interwar houses in Weybridge, Epsom and Reigate split into flats, low-rise blocks built between the 1960s and the 2000s, and student shared houses near the University of Surrey in Guildford. In higher-value conversions, later changes such as loft rooms, open-plan kitchens and glazed internal doors often remove the protected route the original conversion relied on, which is one of the first things a fire risk assessment checks.