A park is not one building. It is a fuel store, an amenity block, a reception, a shop, sometimes a bar, and a field of units six metres apart with gas bottles beside them. The assessment has to cover the lot.
A caravan or holiday park is assessed as a set of premises rather than one building: reception, shop, bar and amenity blocks, the LPG store, and the spacing and gas supplies of the units themselves. The park operator is the responsible person under the Fire Safety Order, and the council's site licence carries its own fire precautions that the assessment should line up with.
Caravan sites in Pembrokeshire are licensed by Pembrokeshire County Council under the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960, and the model licence conditions carry fire precautions of their own: spacing between units, fire points, means of raising the alarm, and a requirement that a fire risk assessment is carried out, kept under review and made available. That sits on top of the Fire Safety Order, which applies to every non-domestic part of the park — the office, the shop, the bar, the toilet and shower block, the laundry, the workshop, the storage compound.
So a park owner is answerable to two authorities: the council's licensing officer for the site conditions, and Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service for the buildings. One assessment written properly serves both.
Distance between units, between units and boundaries, and access for a fire appliance around the site. The licence conditions set the numbers; we measure them, not estimate them.
Cylinder stores, bulk LPG tanks, their separation distances, signage, fencing and who can get at them. Often the single biggest hazard on the site and the one the licence officer asks about first. Bulk LPG also brings DSEAR into play.
Electrical installation, water heaters, laundry dryers, storage of cleaning chemicals, emergency lighting and whether the exits actually open from the inside without a key.
The highest-occupancy building on most parks and often the oldest. Kitchen extract, capacity, escape routes, alarm coverage and the door that has been wedged open since 1998.
Extinguishers and hose reels at the intervals the licence requires, maintained and accessible, and a means of raising the alarm across a site where nobody can hear a bell from the far field.
The tractor shed, the paint store, the pile of old mattresses behind the block. Also what happens to units in storage over winter, when nobody is on site to notice.
Most Pembrokeshire parks mix touring pitches, owned statics, hire fleet, and increasingly pods, huts and safari tents. Each has a different profile: a hired static has guests who do not know the site; an owned static has a licence agreement that should put the internal alarm and gas checks on the owner; a pod has one exit and a wood burner. We write the assessment by area so the actions land on the right person, and so the licence officer can find what they need without reading the whole thing.
A park that shuts from November to March changes twice a year. The sensible pattern is a full assessment, then a documented review before each season opens that confirms nothing has moved — new units, new bar layout, new LPG delivery point. Reviews of an assessment we wrote are charged at a reduced rate.
Owners with two or three parks across the county, or a park plus a cluster of cottages, are quoted as one job and done in a run. It is meaningfully cheaper than booking them separately, and the documents cross-refer properly.
Coastal parks around Amroth, Kilgetty and Saundersfoot, Tenby, Broad Haven, St Davids and Newport are all inside the no-travel-charge area.
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Yes, twice over. The Fire Safety Order applies to every non-domestic building on the park, and Pembrokeshire County Council's site licence conditions require a fire risk assessment for the site as a whole, kept under review. Since October 2023 the assessment must be recorded in full.
The park's assessment covers the site, the spacing, the LPG and the shared buildings. Hire-fleet units are the park's responsibility inside as well. Privately owned statics are normally the owner's responsibility under their licence agreement, and the assessment says so.
Both can. The council's licensing officer checks compliance with the site licence conditions, which include fire precautions. Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service enforces the Fire Safety Order in the buildings and can audit any non-domestic premises.
The fire risk assessment covers it as a hazard, but bulk LPG storage and cylinder compounds also fall under DSEAR, which is a separate assessment, including zoning where it is needed. We do both, in one visit, written to agree with each other.
A small touring site with one block is a morning. A large park with clubhouse, shop, hire fleet and LPG is a full day, sometimes two, plus writing-up. You get a fixed price for the whole job before we visit.
Tell us the building and we will give you a fixed price on the phone. Most assessments are booked within the week.