Safer Homes Resident Engagement Strategy 2025-2026 Consultation

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This consultation is in English. Please continue reading below for the English language version.

Translations in Somali, Bengali, French, Portuguese, Polish, Arabic, Urdu, and an Easy Read version are also available.

La-tashigan Af-Soomaali ku akhri (Read this consultation in Somali)

এই পরামর্শটি বাংলায় পড়ুন। (Read this consultation in Bengali)

Lire cette consultation en français (Read this consultation in French)

Leia esta consulta em português (Read this consultation in Portuguese)

Przeczytaj tę konsultację w języku polskim (Read this consultation in Polish)

(Read this page in Arabic) اقرأ هذه الصفحة باللغة العربية

(Read this consultation in Urdu) اس مشورہ کو اردو میں پڑھیں

Complete an Easy Read version of this consultation


Introduction

Bristol City Council is consulting on how we propose to engage residents about building safety in high-rise residential buildings. The Building Safety Regulator, under the Building Safety Act 2022, requires all social housing landlords who own and manage high-rise residential buildings to prepare a resident engagement strategy, keep it under review and act on it.

The strategy would apply to all residents of council-owned high-rise residential buildings above 18 metres. The council manages and maintains 56 high-rise buildings across Bristol, housing a total of 4,406 homes. The strategy would outline our approach to providing information, communicating, and engaging with council tenants, leaseholders, and other occupants about building safety in these buildings. It would not cover our broader tenant involvement initiatives.

We have outlined our proposed priorities of the strategy below. These emphasise the shared responsibility of maintaining the safety of council homes. It covers how the council will ensure residents have a voice in building safety matters and know how to raise safety concerns with us.

The proposed priorities have been developed with input from both Bristol City Council housing colleagues and residents. The proposals are informed by our previous engagement work with residents in high rise blocks, our existing data on residents living in high-rise blocks in Bristol and other relevant learning and resident feedback. You can read more details about how we have developed our approach here.


Why are we consulting?

We are asking for your views on our proposed priorities and commitments to residents to help us develop the final Safer Homes Resident Engagement Strategy 2025-2026.

This includes commitments and actions for:

  1. How we will keep your homes and buildings safe
  2. How we will communicate and share information with you
  3. How we listen to residents, learn, and involve you in improving building safety
  4. Roles, responsibilities
  5. Advice and support for residents with additional needs
  6. How you can report safety concerns and make a complaint about building safety
  7. How we would review the strategy and measure success.

This overarching strategy would inform building safety engagement plans for individual high rise blocks. This means that the council will work with residents in each high rise block to develop a bespoke plan for how to engage with residents on building safety in their block.


Have your say

The consultation is open from Wednesday 29 January and will close on Wednesday 12 March.

The survey below provides information about proposed priorities and commitments to residents and asks for your views on these.

Please submit your response by Wednesday 12 March 2025 to make sure your views are considered.


Start the survey


Alternative formats

If you prefer, you can complete an online Easy Read version of the survey.(External link)

If you need this consultation survey as a paper version, or Braille, large print, British Sign Language, or in another language, or other alternative format, you can request this by emailing the Housing and Landlord Services team at TPU@bristol.gov.uk(External link) or by calling 0117 3521444.


What happens next?

All responses to this consultation will be analysed and the feedback will help us develop a Safer Homes Resident Engagement Strategy 2025-2026. A decision on whether to approve the draft strategy will be taken by the Executive Director for Growth and Regeneration at Bristol City Council in consultation with the Chair of the Homes and Housing Delivery Policy Committee during spring 2025. The Executive Director for Growth and Regeneration will take responses to the consultation into consideration when making their decisions.

Decisions made will be shared on the council’s Consultation and Engagement Hub

This consultation is in English. Please continue reading below for the English language version.

Translations in Somali, Bengali, French, Portuguese, Polish, Arabic, Urdu, and an Easy Read version are also available.

La-tashigan Af-Soomaali ku akhri (Read this consultation in Somali)

এই পরামর্শটি বাংলায় পড়ুন। (Read this consultation in Bengali)

Lire cette consultation en français (Read this consultation in French)

Leia esta consulta em português (Read this consultation in Portuguese)

Przeczytaj tę konsultację w języku polskim (Read this consultation in Polish)

(Read this page in Arabic) اقرأ هذه الصفحة باللغة العربية

(Read this consultation in Urdu) اس مشورہ کو اردو میں پڑھیں

Complete an Easy Read version of this consultation


Introduction

Bristol City Council is consulting on how we propose to engage residents about building safety in high-rise residential buildings. The Building Safety Regulator, under the Building Safety Act 2022, requires all social housing landlords who own and manage high-rise residential buildings to prepare a resident engagement strategy, keep it under review and act on it.

The strategy would apply to all residents of council-owned high-rise residential buildings above 18 metres. The council manages and maintains 56 high-rise buildings across Bristol, housing a total of 4,406 homes. The strategy would outline our approach to providing information, communicating, and engaging with council tenants, leaseholders, and other occupants about building safety in these buildings. It would not cover our broader tenant involvement initiatives.

We have outlined our proposed priorities of the strategy below. These emphasise the shared responsibility of maintaining the safety of council homes. It covers how the council will ensure residents have a voice in building safety matters and know how to raise safety concerns with us.

The proposed priorities have been developed with input from both Bristol City Council housing colleagues and residents. The proposals are informed by our previous engagement work with residents in high rise blocks, our existing data on residents living in high-rise blocks in Bristol and other relevant learning and resident feedback. You can read more details about how we have developed our approach here.


Why are we consulting?

We are asking for your views on our proposed priorities and commitments to residents to help us develop the final Safer Homes Resident Engagement Strategy 2025-2026.

This includes commitments and actions for:

  1. How we will keep your homes and buildings safe
  2. How we will communicate and share information with you
  3. How we listen to residents, learn, and involve you in improving building safety
  4. Roles, responsibilities
  5. Advice and support for residents with additional needs
  6. How you can report safety concerns and make a complaint about building safety
  7. How we would review the strategy and measure success.

This overarching strategy would inform building safety engagement plans for individual high rise blocks. This means that the council will work with residents in each high rise block to develop a bespoke plan for how to engage with residents on building safety in their block.


Have your say

The consultation is open from Wednesday 29 January and will close on Wednesday 12 March.

The survey below provides information about proposed priorities and commitments to residents and asks for your views on these.

Please submit your response by Wednesday 12 March 2025 to make sure your views are considered.


Start the survey


Alternative formats

If you prefer, you can complete an online Easy Read version of the survey.(External link)

If you need this consultation survey as a paper version, or Braille, large print, British Sign Language, or in another language, or other alternative format, you can request this by emailing the Housing and Landlord Services team at TPU@bristol.gov.uk(External link) or by calling 0117 3521444.


What happens next?

All responses to this consultation will be analysed and the feedback will help us develop a Safer Homes Resident Engagement Strategy 2025-2026. A decision on whether to approve the draft strategy will be taken by the Executive Director for Growth and Regeneration at Bristol City Council in consultation with the Chair of the Homes and Housing Delivery Policy Committee during spring 2025. The Executive Director for Growth and Regeneration will take responses to the consultation into consideration when making their decisions.

Decisions made will be shared on the council’s Consultation and Engagement Hub

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