A fire risk assessment should give you more than another document to file. It should tell you what needs attention, how urgently it matters and what happens next. For a Birmingham HMO landlord, the useful question is not simply, “Have I got a report?” It is, “Does the assessment reflect the property today, and can I show that its findings have been addressed?” Under current legislation, assessment, review and appropriate fire precautions are continuing responsibilities, not a

The £500,000 Reality Check and the Art of the Strategic Pivot Welcome back to the real-time diary of Project 1B. In Part 1, we celebrated a hard-won victory: securing planning permission to convert a historic pub into a premium 18-bed professional co-living space. With the legal hurdles cleared, we stood on the precipice of the build, believing the greatest challenges were behind us. We were wrong. The post-pandemic construction market had other ideas. This instalment is a ca