High-rise building plans

Read our guide on preparation, storage and sharing of floor and building plans.

For further guidance on the preparation and storage of plans, including examples of floor and building plans, refer to the Code of Practice for the Provision of Premises Information Boxes in Residential Buildings on the NFCC website.

Use our online form to submit building plans

Floor plans and building plan

Regulation 6 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 requires responsible persons of high-rise residential buildings in Devon or Somerset to share up-to-date plans of the building with Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service. The plans will be used by operational firefighters during an incident and need to be clear, simple and easy to use.

 

Sharing electronic files

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Please use our form to upload the files.

  • Use PDF only. We cannot accept other types of file
  • Provide a separate plan for each floor identifying unit numbers
  • You can submit up to 10 files with each form but the total file size must be below 64MB.
  • Use the form as many times as you need to if you have more than 10 files or the total file size is greater than 64MB
  • You will receive an email confirming receipt of the files.
 

Storage of hard copies

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The responsible person is required to provide copies of the plans inside the premises’ secure information box. The plans should be sized to fit on A3 paper and, where necessary, printed in colour to assist in easy identification of the plan symbols.

You should provide at least two copies of each plan in the secure information box. This is so that the plans can remain with the incident commander at all times as well as be used by firefighters inside the building.

Plans should be laminated to ensure they remain usable throughout the course of an incident.

 

Floor plans

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Floor plans must show the location of specific equipment as defined by the Regulations. The plans must clearly identify and distinguish between the following:

  • passenger lifts
  • lift for use by firefighters
  • evacuation lifts
  • inlets and outlets for dry-rising mains
  • inlets and outlets for wet-rising mains
  • smoke control systems
  • suppression systems.

You need to prepare a separate plan for each floor. This is so that firefighters can easily identify flat numbers on each floor.

 

Building plans

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You should provide a separate single-page plan that shows the building and its immediate surroundings. The building plan will enable firefighters to orientate themselves and must provide information on access and key firefighting equipment inside and outside the building.

The full list of information to be provided on the building plan is defined in the Regulations and includes:

  • the environs of the building
  • details of the use of the building, for example for commercial or residential purposes
  • access for fire and rescue appliances
  • the dimensions of the building
  • information on the number of storeys of the building and the number of basement levels (if any)
  • information regarding the presence of maisonettes or scissor-section flats
  • inlets for dry-rising mains
  • inlets for wet-rising mains
  • the location of shut-off controls for any sprinklers
  • access points for the building
  • the location of the secure information box
  • the location of the controls for any smoke control system
  • the location of any firefighting shaft
  • the location of the main stairways in the building
  • the location of the controls for any evacuation alert system.

The person completing the forms

The forms should only be completed by a person acting in an authorised capacity on behalf of the responsible person.

If you are a resident or leaseholder who has identified concerns with your building, in the first instance you should contact the Responsible Person for your building. 

Read our guide to reporting a fire safety concern.