FREEHOLDERS & RMCS
The building is yours. The decisions need to be defensible.
Whether you're a freeholder or a director sitting on a resident management company, the responsibility for fire safety ultimately rests with you. We give you the expertise you don't hold in-house, so you can carry that responsibility with confidence rather than worry.
THE EXPOSURE
Responsibility you can't delegate away
You can appoint a managing agent, but the legal responsibility for a safe building doesn't simply disappear. As a freeholder, or as an RMC director, often a leaseholder volunteering your time, you carry real duties and real exposure under the current regime.
The hard part is that most freeholders and RMCs have no fire safety expertise in-house, and no easy way to judge whether what they're being told, or sold, is right. You're left trusting other people's answers about your own liability.
Not sure which duty applies to your building? Our Applicable Persons tool walks you through it in two minutes.
HOW WE HELP
Independent expertise, on your side
Know where you stand
An independent, honest picture of your building's compliance, so you understand your actual position and exposure.
Expertise you don't have
The specialist knowledge you'd otherwise have to hire, available on your terms and only when you need it.
A check on your agent
If you use a managing agent, we give you an independent view of whether fire safety is genuinely being handled.
No one selling you works
We carry out none of the work, so the advice on your liability serves you, not someone's order book.
Plain-English advice
We translate complex duties into clear decisions, so you're never signing off on something you don't understand.
Evidence on record
Everything documented and kept current, so you can show the building has been managed responsibly.
One EWS1 said replace the whole facade. A second said leave it. Independence broke the tie.
See the case →RMC DIRECTORS
Especially if you're a resident director
If you're a leaseholder who's ended up as an RMC director, you didn't sign up to become a fire safety expert, yet the building's compliance, and a share of the responsibility, now sits with you and your fellow directors.
We act as the expert in your corner. We translate the obligations into plain terms, tell you what genuinely needs doing, and make sure decisions are made on sound advice rather than on whichever contractor shouted loudest. You stay in control, properly informed.
HOW CAN WE HELP
The three things freeholders come to us for most
The legal baseline
Fire risk assessments
A building-specific FRA that actually covers external walls and flat entrance doors, not just the corridor.
See fire risk assessments →If your building is in scope
Building Safety Act & safety cases
From registration to a defensible safety case, with the Accountable Person duties properly mapped.
See Building Safety Act work →When opinions conflict
Fire strategies & reviews
The document that says what your building actually requires, so two assessments don't leave you guessing.
See fire strategies →Carry the responsibility with confidence.
Tell us about your building and we'll give you a clear, independent view of where you stand.