Housing and Landlord Services, Property Safety Strategy engagement
We are developing a new Property Safety Strategy that will outline our approach to ensuring that our council homes are safe and secure and how we ensure a well-maintained living environment for our residents.
Our responsibilities and duties as a landlord to ensure that our homes are safe come from different legislation. This new strategy will bring these together in one place so that people can clearly and easily see how we are delivering them.
The strategy will cover areas including fire safety, how we ensure building structures and sound and secure, how we address issues and hazards in homes and how we ensure that buildings comply with all relevant safety regulations.
What the strategy will include
We are engaging about the proposed goals and key actions from April 2025 to March 2030. This includes outcomes, goals, and actions for:
- how we will manage our properties and services so that they are safe homes for all our tenants and leaseholders
- how we will make sure buildings are safe, reduce fire risk and ensure that residents can escape safely in event of fire
- how we will manage information to ensure that our tenants' and leaseholders' homes are safe
- how we will focus on assuring that our tenants’ and leaseholders’ homes are safe
Drop-ins
We held a series of drop-ins where council tenants and leaseholders could find out more about the new strategy, ask questions and share their views.
Lawrence Hill
Tuesday 25 March, 2pm to 4pm
Highett Drive Community Room, Highett Drive, Easton, Bristol BS5 0UP
Lockleaze
Monday 31 March, 11am to 1pm
Old St James Church on Romney Avenue, BS7 9TD
Central
Monday 31 March, 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Waring House Community Room, Waring House, Commercial Road, Bristol, BS1 6TA
Hartcliffe & Withywood
Tuesday 1 April, 10am to 12pm
Cutler Road Community Room, 106 Cutler Road, BS13 8DY
Avonmouth & Lawrence Weston
Wednesday 2 April, 11am to 1pm
Wescott community room, 1-9 Wescott Grove, De Clifford Road, BS11 0WG