Written by: Emma Rose, Communications Manager - Property Services
Your safety is our priority and every year we invest around £6million into fire safety work in our homes.
Part of the work that we’ve been carrying out over the last five years has been our fire safety cavity barrier project.
Cavity barriers sit in roof spaces to stop fire from being able to spread. Since 2000 it’s been a legal requirement for all new-build homes to have these installed, but unfortunately many developers didn’t put them correctly.
We’ve been working with expert construction consultants Taylor Lewis to check all our homes built since 2000 have the fire protection that’s needed to help keep you safe.
Taylor Lewis’ Passive Fire Protection Surveyors recently completed their 10,000th inspection – which took place at Curo’s Greenacre Court in Midsomer Norton.
To mark the occasion, members of Curo’s Fire Safety Team who have been working on the project, and Taylor Lewis’ Building Safety Team, held a coffee morning for residents, with a special celebratory cake, and bunches of daffodils for our customers.
Speaking to the Greenacres residents, Matt Steggles, Head of Building Safety at Taylor Lewis, said, “Building safety is so often overlooked as a boring, box-ticking exercise, but events of the last few years have really changed that.
“Now residents see the link that we as property professionals have always known, that safety and being happy in your home go hand in hand.
“Taylor Lewis is proud to have contributed in some small way to resident happiness”.
Dawn Adams, Fire Safety Project Officer at Curo said, “The safety of our customers is always a priority, and the cavity barrier project is an important part of our fire safety work.
“We appreciate and value the knowledge and support of the Taylor Lewis Building Safety Team who have played an important part in helping us to deliver this project.”
For more information about fire safety, visit our Fire Safety web page.