Compliance Packages for London Landlords, HMOs & Blocks

Six contractors means six visit windows, six invoices, six warranties, six cert formats, and six versions of what "compliant" looks like, which is how audit gaps end up in your evidence pack. A compliance package gives you one named project manager who owns every discipline end to end: one booking, one calendar, one invoice, one warranty, one evidence pack formatted for your specific stakeholder (council licensing portal, CQC inspector, lender panel, block management handover, insurer renewal). When an FRA finding triggers a fire door upgrade, an EICR remedial, or an emergency lighting retrofit, it gets costed and scheduled by the same team that wrote the finding, no finger-pointing, no scope re-negotiation, and the calendar auto-updates so nothing falls off the next year.

Every package is tailored. We publish three reference tiers (Landlord Essentials, HMO Licence-Ready, Block & Portfolio Partner) plus a CQC bundle so you have a clear scanning point, but the actual scope comes out of the portfolio discovery call and the pre-build audit. You pick disciplines at the frequency each one needs: FRA (Type 1/2/3/4 or FRAEW), fire door inspection (quarterly, bi-annual or annual PPM), emergency lighting (monthly flick, annual 3-hour, or self-test addressable), fire alarm (6-month BS 5839 service), EICR (5-year or change-of-tenancy), gas CP12, legionella risk assessment, HHSRS audit, PAT testing, extinguisher servicing, signage. You can add bespoke items (PEEPs, DSEAR, fire door installation, compartmentation surveys, consumer unit upgrades) without unwinding the rest of the scope. This is the point of the service, we don't do generic templates.

Real 2025–2026 ranges from our London job data: Landlord Essentials (single flat or 2–3 bed house, FRA + EICR + gas + smoke/CO) typically £395–£780 annual. HMO Licence-Ready (5-bed HMO, LACORS alarm + EL + doors + EICR + gas + HHSRS + amenity audit + pack) typically £1,450–£3,200 in year one and £750–£1,450 recurring. Block & Portfolio Partner (per 20-unit block, communal FRA + FRAEW + doors + EL + dry risers + alarm + EICR + legionella) typically £2,400–£6,800 annual. CQC Package (single care home or supported-living, RRO FRA + PEEPs + alarm + EL + legionella L8 + doors + HHSRS + extinguisher + signage) typically £3,800–£9,500 annual. Larger portfolios get volume tiers at 5+, 10+ and 25+ properties. We quote fixed price after the portfolio audit; the audit itself is credited against any contract signed within 30 days.

Yes. Every discipline is available standalone at the same price you'd pay a specialist. FRA from £150, fire door inspection from £20 per door, EL from £90, EICR from £117, and so on (our live price lists sit on each service page). Clients often start with one discipline, see the evidence standard and the turnaround, and migrate to a package at renewal. There's no obligation and no minimum term on standalone work.

No. New properties are added to the existing compliance calendar on a pro-rata basis. We attend, complete the baseline disciplines (FRA, EICR, gas, EL commissioning if needed), generate the year-one pack, and schedule the recurring visits to align with the rest of the portfolio where it makes operational sense. The master calendar updates automatically; the rest of your estate is not re-billed or re-scheduled.

Every property in your package has a calendar showing the 12-month rhythm of every discipline: monthly flick-tests, quarterly fire alarm checks, bi-annual fire door PPM, annual FRA review, annual gas CP12, annual EL 3-hour, 5-year EICR, 2-year legionella. You get 14-day pre-visit notice, same-day cert upload, and an auto-generated year-end compliance pack. For portfolio clients we provide a shared dashboard view; for single-property clients it's a simple PDF calendar plus email reminders.

Yes. We issue named evidence packs formatted for whichever stakeholder you have to satisfy, London borough licensing portals, BSA Building Safety Regulator, CQC Reg 12 and Reg 15 evidence, mortgage lender panel templates, insurer renewal packs, block-management handover packs. All certs are issued to you first; we send to third parties on your written instruction. Every document is traceable to the named assessor (NEBOSH, IFSM, FDIS, NICEIC) who carried it out.

Yes. Enforcement response (fire service prohibition notice, HHSRS improvement notice, HMO licence refusal, CQC Regulation 12 breach, insurer ultimatum) is what our remedial works service was built for. Packages include priority triage within 2 hours, site attendance within 48 hours, and a fixed-price schedule of works typically inside 5 working days. We've closed licence refusals inside the 28-day appeal window on dozens of HMO jobs. If the remedials go beyond the package scope, we quote fixed-price and you choose whether to add them to the package or pay standalone.

No. Every package is a 12-month rolling arrangement. You can downgrade, upgrade, pause, or exit at each anniversary with 30 days' notice. We don't use auto-renewal lock-ins, hidden exit fees, or penalty clauses for missed visits caused by tenant access. The only recurring commitment is the statutory duty of compliance itself, and that sits with you as responsible person regardless of who provides the service.

Depends on your scope. A typical HMO Licence-Ready pack includes: BS 9792:2025 FRA with 40–50 pages and photos; BS 5839 fire alarm DICV commissioning cert; BS 5266 emergency lighting annual 3-hour cert; FDIS-framework fire door inspection schedule with per-door photo evidence; BS 7671 EICR; Gas Safety CP12; HHSRS 29-hazard audit; amenity-standard photos against borough standard; Management Regs 2006 setup evidence; manager notice draft; 12-month workmanship warranty. A Block & Portfolio pack adds FRAEW, dry riser test certs, communal EL, compartmentation survey, legionella L8. A CQC pack adds PEEPs register, DSEAR review if applicable, staff training attendance log. Every document is named to drop straight into your stakeholder portal.

Yes. Our home patch is all 32 London boroughs (with 100+ recent jobs delivered) plus Essex, Kent, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Birmingham. We have delivered multi-region portfolios (example: national charity across London, Cambridge and Coventry, 32 sites, 200+ doors). For single properties outside these patches, we quote on a travel-inclusive basis; for portfolios we build a regional visit schedule that minimises travel overhead.

No. The portfolio audit maps every cert you already hold (dates, assessors, scope) against the statutory matrix for your property type. If an existing cert is valid and within scope, we leave it in place and add it to your compliance calendar with its expiry date, so you only pay for the disciplines you actually need covered. We do not re-run work that's already in date.

For HMO and single-let properties we issue 48-hour written tenant notice under the Management of HMO Regulations 2006 and Protection from Eviction Act pathways. For block management we coordinate with the managing agent or site manager, publish visit dates in resident newsletters or portals, and offer resident-access windows (weekends / evenings / half-days). For care homes we work with the registered manager to ensure minimal disruption to residents with additional needs. Every operative is DBS-checked and insurance-covered. We don't knock on doors without a written appointment.

Yes, mixed portfolios are our speciality. The portfolio audit maps each property against its applicable regime (HMO licensing, RRO 2005, CQC, BSA s.156, PRS Regs 2020) and builds one calendar covering all of it. Billing can be split by property, by entity, or by cost centre. You get one relationship manager and one master evidence pack with per-property folders inside. We currently manage portfolios ranging from 2 properties to 32 sites across multiple London boroughs and regional cities.

Package clients get priority: 2-hour phone triage during business hours, 48-hour on-site attendance for urgent remedials, same-day report turnaround for enforcement notices. For out-of-hours fire alarm or emergency lighting failures we offer an emergency attendance line. Insurance-claim support includes independent FRA or post-incident assessment, cause-of-loss evidence, and coordination with your loss adjuster or legal team. Standalone clients get a 4-hour phone response and 5 working-day site attendance as standard.

A 30-minute portfolio consultation, either phone or video, with Kevin Beaver (NEBOSH, IFSM) or Thomas Cork (FDIS) depending on your mix. We ask about your property types, current certs in place, stakeholder pressures (licensing deadlines, lender renewals, CQC inspection windows, insurer requirements), and any live incidents. Inside 5 working days you get a portfolio audit summary, a tailored package recommendation with fixed annual pricing, a proposed compliance calendar, and named project team. No obligation, most clients convert inside 14 days.

Yes, and this is one of the most common questions we're fielding in 2026. BS 8214:2026 is the new edition of the Code of Practice for Fire Door Assemblies and supersedes BS 8214:2016. If you already have fire door inspections in place, any existing 2016-framework reports remain valid evidence until their next scheduled inspection cycle, but from that cycle onwards you should expect your inspector to be working to the 2026 revision. All HSE inspectors are re-trained against BS 8214:2026 and every inspection we deliver from this year references the current code. If you're a block manager, freeholder, HMO landlord or care operator with recent FDIS inspections done to the 2016 edition, we'll cross-reference your 2016-era findings against the 2026 framework as part of the next scheduled visit, no separate fee for the re-mapping. For anyone approaching a lender renewal, insurer renewal or HMO licensing submission, we specifically recommend the next inspection explicitly cite BS 8214:2026 in the report cover page so the evidence doesn't get flagged as working to a superseded standard.