Fire risk assessment Bournemouth
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Fire risk assessment Bournemouth: what shapes the risk
Bournemouth is a seaside resort and one of southern England's largest retail and commercial centres. Most assessments here fall into four kinds of building.
Shops, cafés and offices in shared buildings. In the town centre and its shopping centres, you are responsible for your own unit and the landlord for the rest. Your assessment covers your unit and sets out, in writing, what is the landlord's to fix.
Shops with flats above. On the parades in Winton, Charminster and Boscombe, the risk sits in the wall and ceiling between the shop and the homes over it. Openings left by old cables and ducts are a common finding.
Houses converted into flats and holiday flats. In Southbourne, Boscombe and on the East and West Cliff, a converted house often has one staircase and one way out, so alarms, door locks and what guests are told matter most.
Student houses and seafront blocks. Bournemouth University and Arts University Bournemouth feed a large shared-house market around Winton and Charminster, and the seafront is lined with apartment blocks and hotels, where sleeping risk and protected escape routes matter most.
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Recent fire risk assessments in Bournemouth
Fire risk assessments we have carried out across Bournemouth, newest first.
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Converted house fire risk assessmentBracken Road, Southbourne,
Bournemouth BH6 3TB -
Shop fire risk assessmentCharminster Road,
Bournemouth BH8 9QS -
Shop fire risk assessmentCardigan Road,
Bournemouth BH9 1BJ -
Holiday let fire risk assessmentSouthbourne Road, Southbourne,
Bournemouth BH6 5AE -
Café or restaurant fire risk assessmentRichmond Gardens Shopping Centre, Old Christchurch Road,
Bournemouth BH1 1EN -
Holiday let fire risk assessmentDulsie Road,
Bournemouth BH3 7EB
Fire risk assessment Bournemouth reviews
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What a Bournemouth assessment changes
A recent Bournemouth holiday let was asked for a fire risk assessment by its management company before the first guests arrived. The alarm was tested at every bedhead, one exit door was changed to open without a key, and gas bottles and a chiminea were moved away from the house. Within a week the risk rating had dropped a level and the owner had a signed report.
What you're probably worried about
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No. There's nothing to buy from me: no doors, alarms or extinguishers. Just the assessment.
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It lists what's actually needed and how urgent it is. Most of it costs little or nothing, and I don't fit any of it, so there's no reason to pad the list.
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Booked this week, visited this week, report days after.
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Plain English, with a list of what to do and what to leave alone.
Fire risk assessments across Bournemouth
Across Bournemouth: the town centre, Boscombe, Southbourne, Pokesdown, Springbourne, Winton, Charminster, Moordown, Westbourne, Talbot Woods, Kinson, and the East and West Cliff.
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Fire risk assessment Bournemouth: your questions
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Yes. If you take paying guests, fire safety law applies, and since October 2023 the assessment has to be written down in full, whatever the size of the property. A Bournemouth holiday let is assessed to PAS 79-1:2020, from £249.
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A written assessment of the property by a competent assessor, and usually proof that its actions have been dealt with. You get a signed report you can send straight to them. Where their terms ask for more than the law does, such as an extinguisher or appliance testing, the report says which is a legal need and which is their rule.
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Your own unit: everything your lease makes yours. Anything that belongs to the building, such as shared corridors, the main alarm system or the floors above, is written up for you to pass to the landlord or managing agent.
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You do, as the owner or freeholder, for the shared parts: the entrance, hall, stairs and landings. That is assessed to BS 9792:2025, from £249. If one of the flats is a holiday let, that flat needs its own assessment as well.
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Yes. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council licenses HMOs let to five or more people, and the fire risk assessment is on its list of documents required with the application. The council's fire standards apply to smaller HMOs too, licence or not. See HMO fire risk assessments in Bournemouth.
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All of it, from Kinson to Southbourne and from Westbourne to Boscombe. There is no travel charge anywhere in Bournemouth.
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Fixed by size, not negotiation. HMOs from £249 for up to four rented rooms; holiday lets the same bands; business premises from £249, set by your internal staircases plus fixed add-ons. No VAT, no travel charge, no deposit.
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Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service.
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