Sending your documents to KFRS - Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
Under the new Fire Safety Regulations 2022, Responsible Persons (RPs) for multi-occupied residential buildings of 18 metres and over will need to submit certain documents to KFRS as follows:
- External Wall Report
- Report a fault
- Rectification of a fault
- Your building plans
Learn more about the Regulations and what you need to do and send to us.
Send your completed forms and plans using the information and buttons below.
Please be aware that in order to meet our obligations under the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, the Kent and Medway Fire and Rescue Authority will need to collect and store some of your personal data. All personal data is processed and stored in line with the requirements of the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018. For further information about this please refer to our privacy statement and privacy notice 029 (Feedback, engagement and consultation with people responsible for regulated premises, and small business owners).
Providing your information and documents
Provide External Wall Report and mitigating measures
Responsible Persons of high-rise residential buildings must:
- 'prepare a record of the design of external walls of the building, including details on the materials used, the level of risk created by the external walls (as identified in the fire risk assessment) and any mitigating steps that have been taken in respect of that risk' (Regulation 5)
- provide a copy of this record to their local fire and rescue service (Regulation 11)
Report a fault
Responsible Persons of high-rise residential buildings are required 'to undertake monthly checks of key firefighting equipment within the building. Where faults are identified which cannot be rectified within 24 hours, then the Responsible Person must report the fault to the local fire and rescue service as soon as reasonably practicable. The local fire and rescue service must be notified again once the fault has been rectified.' (Regulation 7 - Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022)
Report Rectification of a Fault
Responsible Persons for high-rise residential buildings are required 'to undertake monthly checks of key firefighting equipment within the building. Where faults are identified which cannot be rectified within 24 hours, then the Responsible Person must report the fault to the local fire and rescue service as soon as reasonably practicable. The local fire and rescue service must be notified again once the fault has been rectified.' (Regulation 7 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022)
This form should only be used to report rectification of faults previously reported to the fire and rescue service.'
Send your building plans to KFRS
From the 23 January 2023 Responsible Persons for buildings of 18 metres or 7 storeys or more will be required to electronically provide KFRS with current building floor plans.
Files should be no larger than 35 megabytes and emailed to KFRS by using the button below. Please submit a full set of plans for each block of flats per email (not exceeding the maximum file size as above).
If you experience any technical difficulties ...
when submitting your data, please report this to by email to: buildingsafetyenquiry@kent.fire-uk.org