Fire Risk Assessment in Bingham
Run a shop on the Market Place, let a room in a new-build north of the town or sit on a village hall committee? Describe the property in a few lines. One qualified assessor from the area picks it up and gives you a fixed price to agree first.
Who needs a fire risk assessment in Bingham, and what it costs
Whoever runs a Bingham shop, office, house share, church, hall or the stairs of a converted block is expected by the Fire Safety Order to have a fire risk assessment. Since October 2023 every responsible person has had to record the full assessment in writing, whatever the size of the business. Bingham sits in Rushcliffe Borough Council, not Nottingham City, so city licensing rules do not apply here. For the buildings most common here, expect prices from £200 for a Market Place shop under 200 m², from £250 for a village or church hall, and from £350 for a five to seven bedroom house share. Every other band sits on the cost guide.
Only one assessor sees your details. After the visit you get a written report setting out each fix in priority order, and the visit date is agreed directly with them.
Letting in Bingham or in the city? How the licence rules differ
Landlords who also own in the city often assume the same rules cross the Trent. They do not. Here is how Bingham, under Rushcliffe, compares with Nottingham City as of October 2026.
| Question | Rushcliffe (Bingham, Cotgrave, Radcliffe on Trent) | Nottingham City |
|---|---|---|
| Which HMO schemes run? | Just the national mandatory scheme. Rushcliffe has chosen not to run additional or selective licensing anywhere in the borough, Bingham included. | Mandatory, plus a citywide Additional Licensing Scheme (since January 2024) and Selective Licensing (second scheme since 1 December 2023) |
| Which shared houses need a licence? | Houses with at least five tenants who are not all one household | Three or more unrelated people forming two or more households, sharing facilities |
| Single-family lets | No licence needed | Most private lets in the selective area (over 30,000 homes) need one |
| HMO licence fee | £995 for a 5 bed (paid as £735, then £260 once granted). £1,135 for 6 to 10 beds (£840, then £295) | Standard, up to 9 bedrooms: £697 plus £910 (£1,607) |
| Fire documents to upload | Servicing reports for the fire alarm and for the smoke and CO alarms. Rushcliffe’s list leaves out the fire risk assessment. | Certificates for any panel-based alarm and for emergency lights must go in. The city lists the written assessment among optional extras “if you have them”. |
| Article 4 on small HMOs | None. In February 2026 Cabinet found insufficient evidence to justify one. | Check with the city council |
So a four-person house share in Bingham needs no licence, while the same house in the city would. That does not take it outside fire safety law. Rushcliffe can still inspect any HMO under the Housing Act 2004, and the council’s HMO page says it will recommend fire separation and emergency lighting. Read more on our HMO landlords page.
Bingham buildings: what comes up
Bingham is a market town with a charter dating from 1314, according to Rushcliffe’s December 2022 conservation area appraisal. The same appraisal counts 26 listed buildings in the conservation area, including the Grade I church of St Mary and All Saints, and the octagonal Butter Cross of 1861, designed by T.C. Hine. That history shapes what an assessor finds.
Shops with flats above on the Market Place
The appraisal describes two to three storey buildings around the Market Place, with shop fronts below and homes above. The usual issue is a single staircase serving both. The assessor checks whether the flat can be reached without passing through the shop, whether there is fire separation between the two, and whether anyone asleep in the flat would hear an alarm if the shop caught fire after closing. In listed frontages with timber sashes and old doors, they will flag where upgrades may need conservation advice first.
New-build homes north of Bingham
The land north of Bingham is allocated for 1,050 homes on 61 hectares. Rushcliffe’s 2025 housing land assessment lists it as under construction with over 50% done and 356 homes still to come. When a three-storey new-build becomes a shared house, the open-plan ground floor and top-floor bedrooms are what the assessor looks at, because the stair may be the only way out. At five tenants it needs a Rushcliffe licence. See our landlords page.
Units on Moorbridge Road Industrial Estate
Rushcliffe sold 4.5 acres on the Moorbridge Road Industrial Estate in 2018 for 32 new business units. Small trade and storage units like these usually raise the same points: stock stacked near exits, mezzanines, charging areas for tools or forklifts, and who checks the alarm when units share a terrace. A warehouse or industrial unit starts from £350. More on our warehouses page.
Village halls and churches
In Aslockton, the Thomas Cranmer Centre is a community space run by local volunteers. Halls like this, and Bingham’s Grade I parish church, are hired out to groups who do not know the building. The assessor checks exit routes stay clear for hirers, that someone briefs each hirer, and that heaters and kitchens are safe. A church or community hall starts from £250. See churches and halls.
What people actually ask about buildings like Bingham’s
“Who is responsible for the fire safety equipment, eg, fire alarm, fire exits and smoke alarms.”
A prospective commercial tenant on Property118, February 2015
The poster was renting a ground floor unit with a separately let flat above, the same layout as many Market Place buildings. Under the Fire Safety Order, each person with control of part of the building is a responsible person for that part, so the shop tenant covers the shop and the landlord usually covers the shared stair and any alarm that links the two. Duties are often split in the lease, so read it. An assessment of the whole building shows who owns each action.
“2. Does it need a fire panel? 3. Does it need emergency lights & where?” (as written)
A would-be HMO landlord on Property118, March 2024
The poster was turning a three-bedroom house into a five-bedroom HMO over two floors, exactly the point where a Bingham house share needs a Rushcliffe licence. Rushcliffe asks for a fire detection and alarm servicing report with the application and says it will recommend emergency lighting. Whether you need a panel system or interlinked mains alarms depends on the layout and storeys, which is what the assessor works out on site.
The law in plain English for Bingham owners
- The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies to every Market Place shop, Moorbridge Road unit, parish church and hall, and to the stairs and landings of flats and house shares. Whoever controls those spaces needs a suitable assessment. Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service enforces it, and its Bingham station on Long Acre is crewed on call by local people.
- The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 reach any building holding two or more homes, from a split Market Place property to a Hollygate Park block, and have done since 23 January 2023. Tenants there should be given written fire instructions and told why fire doors matter. Where a block is taller than 11 metres, shared fire doors get checked quarterly and each flat’s front door once a year.
- The Housing Act 2004 sets HMO licensing. Across Rushcliffe the trigger is a fifth tenant in a house shared by more than one household, and a licence there runs for up to five years.
- For a shop, office or hall the assessor follows PAS 79-1:2020. For flats and house shares they use BS 9792:2025, which succeeded PAS 79-2 in 2025.
Worked example: five sharers in a north Bingham new-build
An illustrative example based on the guidance and prices on this page. Not a real customer or property.
Picture a three-storey house on the estate north of the town, bought to let to five sharers. That needs a Rushcliffe HMO licence: £735 to apply and £260 when granted. The council wants a fire alarm servicing report with the form. The landlord asks for a fire risk assessment first, so the alarm, doors and escape route are right before the inspection. A 5 to 7 bedroom HMO assessment starts from £350. The assessor checks the stair, the top-floor rooms and the kitchen, then sends a written report with the jobs to do before the council visits.
Bingham fire risk assessment FAQs
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