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Fire safety in high-rise residential buildings

What to do if there's a fire, smoke alarms, gas safety and gas servicing in high rise, electrical safety and how to prevent electrical fires, preventing fires in your flat.

In this section:

Fire safety procedures

The chance of a fire happening in a high rise block is no greater than in any other type of housing, but if a fire does happen you do need to know what to do. Fire safety is important in high rise buildings as a fire in any area of the block will impact on a lot of other residents. We have produced guidance to:

  • help you think about how to minimise the chance of fire happening in your home
  • tell you what you need to do if a fire happens in your home 
  • tell you what to do if a fire happens in another part of the block
  • encourage you to take pride in where you live and report any antisocial behaviour

This guidance was written with help from the Bedfordshire Fire Service.

You can also download this guidance as a document.

Fire safety handbook (PDF, 156.58KB)

High rise buildings fire risk assessment

We carry out fire risk assessments on high rise buildings annually or after significant works. These are available on request.

These assessments are a snapshot of issues found at the time of the inspection only.

Any issues listed will either have been addressed or put in a programme for future works. We will carry out works straight away if we think there is imminent danger.

Other items will be put into our works programme and dealt with as soon as is practical. In addition, we carry out regular inspections of the blocks between the assessments and will remove any dangers.

Joint audits inspections are also carried out together with The Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. We will take any actions necessary, should they be required.

Raise a concern between inspections

Contact us immediately:

Email: housing.repairs@luton.gov.uk