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Student lettings firm fined £150,000 for fire failings
13 February 2017
A NOTTINGHAM-based student lettings company has been ordered to pay £190,000 in fines and costs after multiple fire safety breaches were identified at a site housing 23 residents.

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) visited the accommodation run by Nottingham Student Lettings Limited at Castle Gate and found that no suitable risk assessment was in place. There was also no fire detection system, emergency lighting or safe means of escape from the premises as the only way into the building was via a staircase that had an industrial laundry on one of its landings.
The Nottingham Post, reports Judge Stuart Rafferty as warning that if a fire had occurred in the building, death was not simply highly probable, but an “inevitability”. He said: “It could not be said within any degree of realism to have been a safe building. It was far from it. The risk of death was not theoretical, it could well have occurred.”
Speaking after the hearing, NFRS station manager Tom Clark said: “Regrettably, not only did Mr Singh put the young people living at his property at serious risk in the event of a fire, he refused to follow the advice of fire inspection officers in how he could make the appropriate improvements to remove the risks, and meet current fire safety legislation.“
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