Safety in High Rise homes

Following the tragedy at Grenfell Tower on the 14 June 2017 and the subsequent Hackitt report - Building a Safer Future - which was commissioned and published in May 2018, the Building Safety Act was created and implemented in 2022.

The management of safety within high rise residential buildings was found to be a major failure at Grenfell Tower, the Building Safety Act aims to address this by making sure the residents of High Rise Buildings(HRBs) are able to raise their concerns over safety directly with a named individual who is overall responsible for the safety of high rise residential buildings.

This person is responsible for the day to day management and operational activities which take place in the building. 

In the case of the buildings managed by St Leger Homes on behalf of City of Doncaster Council a specialist team was created in 2021 to look after the day to day running of these buildings and to be a point of contact for the residents. This is our Building Safety Team.

The team looks after all aspects of structural and fire safety both in the inside communal areas and the outside of the buildings.

The team team complete weekly safety checks of all buildings, quarterly inspections of all communal fire doors and annual inspections of all flat entrance fire doors.

But we can't do this alone. We need your help as residents of the building to not only raise concerns with the team about any safety related matters but also to allow access to your homes for compliance related activities to be completed.