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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 Rochdale and the surrounding areas.
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. In Rochdale a high share of the housing is rented and a high share is old, and the two together are what the duty tends to follow.
An out-of-date or missing fire risk assessment is a breach of the Fire Safety Order, and unaddressed risks can invalidate your buildings insurance in the event of an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.
Rochdale has the smallest housing stock in the Cheshire group, 38,242 homes with a valid EPC, and one of the most institutional tenure profiles anywhere in the tier. 24.7% is socially rented, second only to Salford, while just 5,909 homes are privately let. The practical effect is that responsibility for communal areas here concentrates in relatively few hands: registered providers and the council, rather than thousands of individual landlords.
That concentration cuts both ways. Portfolio owners generally have assessment programmes and maintenance regimes that a single-property landlord does not, but when something is systematically wrong, it is wrong across many buildings at once. Age raises the stakes, with 26.7% of the stock built before 1930, and flats accounting for 17.3%, around 6,616 properties. Across the Rochdale authority area, 2,581 commercial premises hold a valid commercial EPC, the smallest non-domestic estate in the Cheshire group.
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. Rochdale's communal areas are concentrated in institutional hands, with 24.7% of homes socially rented against 5,909 privately let, so most of the duty here sits with registered providers and the council. If your business has 5 or more employees the assessment must be kept in writing.
Yes. The Fire Safety Order attaches to premises, not to organisations, so a landlord with thirty blocks needs thirty assessments rather than one policy document. What can sensibly be shared across a portfolio is the approach: a common template, a review cycle, and a single register showing when each building was last assessed and what remains outstanding. We can quote on a portfolio basis where that is useful.
Fire risk assessments in Rochdale 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.
Your fire risk assessment should be reviewed regularly and updated whenever something changes that could make it outdated, for example a change of layout, use, or occupancy. Your report states the timescale for the next review.
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.