Tenby has the highest concentration of sleeping risk in Pembrokeshire. Hotels, guesthouses, holiday flats and apartments packed into a walled medieval town with narrow streets, tall buildings and a great deal of listed fabric.
We are 35 minutes away, so there is no travel charge and no waiting a fortnight for a slot.
Sleeping risk plus historic construction plus seasonal staff is the combination the fire service pays most attention to. Multi-storey guesthouses with a single staircase, loft conversions creating an extra sleeping floor, and holiday flats let through agencies that now ask for the assessment before they will list the property. Getting an appliance down some of those streets is its own consideration and it belongs in the assessment.
We work across the walled town, Tudor Square, High Street, St Julian's Street, the Norton, the Croft, South Beach and the Esplanade, and out into the surrounding parishes. Population is around 4,700 in winter, many times that in August.
The rule that caught most people out. Since 1 October 2023 the five‑employee recording exemption no longer exists in Wales. Every responsible person in Tenby must record the fire risk assessment in full, along with their fire safety arrangements, however small the business.
The highest concentration of sleeping risk in the county, in some of the oldest fabric. Multi-storey, single staircase, rooms in converted attics, and streets an appliance cannot easily reach. That combination is why Tenby premises get more attention from the fire service than almost anywhere else in Pembrokeshire.
Converted townhouses split into self-catering flats. Common parts, flat entrance doors and detection on the shared escape route, plus guests who have never been in the building before and will be asleep in it tonight.
Trading hard for four months and quiet for eight. Seasonal staff who joined in May and have never been shown the back door are the finding we make most often here.
Access is a genuine assessment factor. Where an appliance cannot get close, more weight has to fall on early detection and on an escape route that works without help.
What the building is, how many floors, whether anyone sleeps there. Enough to fix a price.
A 35 minute drive. We walk the building with whoever knows it best, photographing as we go.
Recorded in full within five working days, with a numbered and prioritised action list.
Not automatically. Plenty of Tenby buildings work safely with a single staircase, provided it is properly protected, the detection wakes people early enough, and the doors onto it do their job. What matters is the combination, and that is exactly what the assessment works out.
Yes. Most of the larger agencies now require one before they will list a property, and insurers ask too. It has moved from a legal duty people ignored to a commercial requirement they cannot.
Yes, and often early morning before service is the easiest slot. Say when you ring and we will work around trading.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 the responsible person for any non‑domestic premises must carry out a fire risk assessment. Since 1 October 2023, section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 requires it to be recorded in full, along with your fire safety arrangements, regardless of how many people you employ. Enforcement in Tenby sits with Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
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Tell us the building and we will give you a price on the phone. Most assessments are booked within the week.