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If you own or manage rented residential buildings – including HMOs, blocks of flats or purpose-built rental properties – new legal duties around fire evacuation are coming into force on 6 April 2026. The Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025 require the person responsible for the building – typically the owner, landlord or…

Access control systems – the electronic door locks, keypads and fob readers that control who can enter your building – are governed by an industry code of practice called NCP 109, maintained by the National Security Inspectorate (NSI). A new version of that code (Issue 4) is now in effect, and the previous version was…

If your building or property has had an Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) recently, it’s worth knowing that the rules around who is qualified to carry one out are about to get stricter. An EICR is the inspection report that confirms whether a building’s fixed electrical wiring and installations are safe. It’s already a legal…