Safer Homes Resident Engagement Strategy 2025 to 2026, consultation

The Building Safety Regulator, under the Building Safety Act 2022, requires all social housing landlords who own and manage high-rise residential buildings to prepare a resident engagement strategy, keep it under review and act on it.

The strategy would apply to all residents of council-owned high-rise residential buildings above 18 metres. The council manages and maintains 56 high-rise buildings across Bristol, housing a total of 4,406 homes. The strategy would outline our approach to providing information, communicating, and engaging with council tenants, leaseholders, and other occupants about building safety in these buildings. It would not cover our broader tenant involvement initiatives.

We have outlined our proposed priorities of the strategy below. These emphasise the shared responsibility of maintaining the safety of council homes. It covers how the council will ensure residents have a voice in building safety matters and know how to raise safety concerns with us.

The proposed priorities have been developed with input from both Bristol City Council housing colleagues and residents. The proposals are informed by our previous engagement work with residents in high rise blocks, our existing data on residents living in high-rise blocks in Bristol and other relevant learning and resident feedback.

pdf Details of how we have developed our approach(90 KB) .

Why are we consulting?

We are asking for your views on our proposed priorities and commitments to residents to help us develop the final Safer Homes Resident Engagement Strategy 2025-2026.

This includes commitments and actions for:

1. how we will keep your homes and buildings safe
2. how we will communicate and share information with you
3. how we listen to residents, learn, and involve you in improving building safety
4. roles, responsibilities
5. advice and support for residents with additional needs
6. how you can report safety concerns and make a complaint about building safety
7. how we would review the strategy and measure success

This overarching strategy would inform building safety engagement plans for individual high rise blocks. This means that the council will work with residents in each high rise block to develop a bespoke plan for how to engage with residents on building safety in their block.