Housing associations, managing agents and inspection companies working in Cardiff run fire risk assessment programmes under Wales's regulatory framework. Here's what applies, how often it's due, and how local providers manage it with Kaarr.
In England and Wales the FRA duty sits in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, clarified by the Fire Safety Act 2021 to include external walls and flat entrance doors, with the Building Safety Act 2022 adding duties for higher-risk buildings.
The responsible person for any building with two or more dwellings must have a suitable and sufficient FRA. Post-Grenfell reforms — the Fire Safety Act 2021 and Building Safety Act 2022 — widened its scope to structure, external walls and flat entrance doors, and raised the bar on recording and competence.
Cardiff is in Wales, so the governing framework is: Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 · Fire Safety Act 2021 · Building Safety Act 2022. In England and Wales the FRA duty sits in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, clarified by the Fire Safety Act 2021 to include external walls and flat entrance doors, with the Building Safety Act 2022 adding duties for higher-risk buildings.
Usually the freeholder, managing agent or housing provider who has control of the building's communal areas. They can appoint a competent assessor, but the legal duty stays with them.
FRAs must be reviewed regularly and after any material change — annual review is the standard for residential blocks, with higher-risk buildings on more intensive regimes under the Building Safety Act.
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