Gas safety in your home

We have recently changed the way in which we complete our gas services and have moved to MOT style testing. This may have changed the month of the year in which your gas service is due.

We are aiming to complete more services during the summer months and fewer in the winter months to give us more availability to respond to emergency repairs in the winter.  This means we can minimise the time that a tenant might be without heating in the event of a breakdown during the winter months.

We will send out our invite letters as normal when we are in your area completing services.

Gas servicing is a priority for us as it is a legal requirement to complete a service every year.

A Gas Safe Engineer will check all appliances. This should take around an hour to complete.

We are required by law to carry out an Annual Gas Safety Check on your property so you must allow us access.

We are responsible for carrying out annual checks of all gas appliances that belong to us. This includes:

• gas boilers
• fires

If we have been unable to obtain access to your property, as a last resort we will apply to the courts for a warrant to gain access. This is if we are unable to contact you, or you fail to respond to visits or telephone calls.

You will be charged for all the costs that we will incur.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can contact us on 01325 405333 or by emailing us at [email protected].

Your tenancy agreement states you must give us access to the property.

This can be for any inspections and repairs that we need to carry out.

We may need to make the gas meter safe if we believe the property has been abandoned. This may be due to the lack of response to visits and calls.

You can see how we're performing on gas safety by reviewing our latest Health & Safety in Council Housing Compliance Reports.