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Residents roles and responsibilities

The Building Safety Act sets out statutory duties on you and flat owners to cooperate with us the building owner.

Your Role as residents in ensuring safety

Did you know the Building Safety Act also sets out statutory duties on you and flat owners to cooperate with us the building owner. Residents and flat owners have legal responsibilities to avoid actions that could pose a risk to the fire and structural safety of the building and other residents.

Did you know that under the Building Safety Act -

You:

  • must not act in a way that creates a significant risk of a building safety risk materialising; (Spread of fire or structural safety)
  • must not interfere with a relevant safety item

A ‘relevant’ safety item means anything that is in or forms parts of the common parts of this building or is intended to improve the safety of building in or about the building.

  • must comply with a request, made by us, for information reasonably required for the purposes of our duty to assess or manage a building safety risk

Such as access to your property covered under section 97 of the Building Safety Act.

a person “interferes” with a relevant safety item if they, without reasonable excuse - 

  • damage it
  • remove it
  • do anything to, or in relation to, it that interferes with its intended function


Your Role as residents in ensuring safety

Did you know the Building Safety Act also sets out statutory duties on you and flat owners to cooperate with us the building owner. Residents and flat owners have legal responsibilities to avoid actions that could pose a risk to the fire and structural safety of the building and other residents.

Did you know that under the Building Safety Act -

You:

  • must not act in a way that creates a significant risk of a building safety risk materialising; (Spread of fire or structural safety)
  • must not interfere with a relevant safety item

A ‘relevant’ safety item means anything that is in or forms parts of the common parts of this building or is intended to improve the safety of building in or about the building.

  • must comply with a request, made by us, for information reasonably required for the purposes of our duty to assess or manage a building safety risk

Such as access to your property covered under section 97 of the Building Safety Act.

a person “interferes” with a relevant safety item if they, without reasonable excuse - 

  • damage it
  • remove it
  • do anything to, or in relation to, it that interferes with its intended function


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