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Fire risk assessments for commercial premises, blocks of flats and HMOs.
Over 19 years experience providing property surveys for all building types.
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Easy EPC provides fire risk assessments for commercial premises, the communal areas of blocks of flats, and HMOs across Manchester and the surrounding boroughs.
Our assessors survey the premises, identify the fire risks, and produce a clear written report with an overall risk rating, prioritised action points, and the timescale for the next review.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person for any commercial premises must have a suitable fire risk assessment. If the business has 5 or more employees, it must be kept in writing.
For residential property, landlords and freeholders are responsible for assessing the communal areas of any block of flats, including houses converted into two or more flats, and the assessment must cover the front doors of the individual flats. No city in our coverage carries that duty across more buildings than Manchester.
An out-of-date or missing fire risk assessment is a breach of the Fire Safety Order, and unaddressed risks can invalidate your buildings insurance in the event of an incident.
Manchester has the largest communal-area duty of any city we cover. Of its 342,582 homes with a valid EPC, 34.4% are flats, around 117,848 properties whose communal areas fall under the Fire Safety Order. That single figure is larger than the entire housing stock of most towns on this site.
Tenure compounds it. 77,217 homes are privately rented and a further 26.9% socially rented, so the great majority of those communal areas sit with a landlord, a freeholder or a managing agent rather than with the people living in them. 21.0% of the stock pre-dates 1930, which means the flat total mixes purpose-built city-centre blocks with older subdivided property, and the two raise quite different questions on escape routes. Across the Manchester authority area, 7,522 commercial premises hold a valid commercial EPC, each with a responsible person who needs a current assessment.
Housing and commercial figures from the MHCLG EPC register (valid certificates, May 2026).
If you are responsible for a commercial premises, or you are the landlord of a block of flats (including a house converted into two or more flats), the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires a fire risk assessment. Manchester has around 117,848 flats, the largest communal-area duty of any city we cover, so this is among the most common requirements in the city. If your business has 5 or more employees the assessment must be kept in writing.
The legal duty is identical, but what the assessment concentrates on is not. A purpose-built block usually has designed escape routes and compartmentation, so the questions are about management, maintenance and whether the building is still used as designed. An older conversion often has one original staircase and no second means of escape, so the fabric itself is under examination. Manchester has both in quantity, with 21.0% of its stock pre-dating 1930.
Fire risk assessments in Manchester start from £199.95+VAT. The exact price depends on the size and complexity of the premises. A small block's communal areas cost less to assess than a large commercial building. Contact Easy EPC for a free, no-obligation quote.
Where a managing agent runs the building day to day, the duty usually sits with both the freeholder and the agent, because the Fire Safety Order attaches to anyone with control over the premises. In practice the assessment should name who is accountable for each action it raises, which is why a vague report is worth less than a specific one.
A written report highlighting any fire risks found, an overall risk rating for the property, the priority and timescale for any action needed, and the timescale for the next review. Each element is categorised so you can see at a glance where intervention is needed.
Get a no-obligation quote for your fire risk assessment. Our team will respond during opening hours.