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Park Hill Phase One

Your safety is our top priority. We want you to feel safe in your home and know how to get in touch with us to raise any concerns or share ideas you may have.

Introduction and scope

Living in a block of apartments does not mean you are at any more risk of experiencing a fire. However, we do need you to consider how a fire in your home could affect not only yourself but others in your building.

We take customers’ safety seriously, and The Building Safety Act places a duty on Urban Splash Park Hill Ltd and Great Places (including Plumlife) to deliver a strategy for engaging with you and other customers about building and fire safety at Park Hill Phase One. This is called a Resident Engagement Strategy, and its purpose is to ensure that customers:

  • Know who they can speak to about their safety
  • Have a variety of opportunities to speak to staff about any building safety concerns or issues
  • Know the responsibilities between landlords and customers
  • Feel confident to hold their landlord to account and to understand any communications sent to them relating to building safety

This Resident Engagement Strategy is specific to Park Hill Phase One and considers all the customers in the building and their individual needs.

Who holds responsibility at Park Hill Phase One?

As your management company, we are responsible for managing fire safety at Park Hill Phase One, which is a high-rise building that contains 260 homes up to 14 storeys.

Principal Accountable Person

The Principal Accountable Person is the person or organisation who owns the building. For Park Hill Phase One, the Principal Accountable Person is Urban Splash Park Hill Ltd. They are responsible for ensuring that Great Places Housing Group (including Plumlife), as the Accountable Person, manages your building

Accountable Person

An Accountable Person is a person or organisation who is responsible for ensuring that Park Hill Phase One is well managed. At Park Hill Phase One your Accountable Person is Great Places Housing Group (including Plumlife).

Responsible Person

The Responsible Person is there to ensure that Park Hill Phase One has all its safety measures in place. For Park Hill Phase One, Great Places Housing Group is the Responsible Person.

Review and monitoring

We will consult with you to review this strategy:

  • Every two years
  • After the completion of any significant safety works or alterations to the building
  • After every consultation held regarding the strategy
  • After any reports made to the Building Safety Regulator about any fire or structural incidents

The aim of this plan is to make sure that you:

  • Feel safe in your home
  • Can easily report any safety concerns in your home and the wider building
  • Are aware of how you can be involved and influence building safety decisions
  • Know how we respond to customer feedback
  • Have the information you need about your building
  • Know how to make a complaint if you feel you are not being listened to or have concerns

Keeping you informed

We will share information with you about building safety and any measures that are in place to ensure your safety at Park Hill Phase One.

We will regularly provide customers with an annual fire safety leaflet and make sure we give this to new customers when they move in. We will provide other information in a variety of ways, such as:

  • Letters, leaflets, and newsletters
  • Text messages and emails
  • On our website and social media
  • On communal notice boards

If any of our customers need additional support and require communications in a different format, please contact us.

Other information you may need can be found on our websites or by contacting us, such as:

  • Advice on how to reduce fire hazards
  • Fire escape routes, fire doors and emergency lighting
  • What to do in an emergency
  • Details about safety equipment and its purpose
  • The roles and responsibilities of Plumlife and Great Places
  • Summary of the latest Fire Risk Assessment
  • A summary report explaining how building safety risks are assessed and managed

How you can have your say

We will give you opportunities to have your say by:

  • Undertaking surveys in a range of ways
  • Consultations through our digital platform, Our Voice
  • There is also the opportunity for you to have your say in the following ways at Park Hill Phase One:
    • Drop-in surgeries on a Tuesday at the Plumlife concierge office
    • Phase One informal meetings

The topics this may include are:

  • Asking about your opinions on how we can improve our fire and building safety
  • Getting your thoughts on preferred times for our fire safety checks or work being completed
  • Involving you in the design of any major upgrade works in your building if they are needed
  • Asking for your support when looking at employing contractors
  • Your thoughts about ways we can manage disturbance from any building safety work

We will measure and review the information you provide and report back on key findings, such as:

  • Overall satisfaction on how safe you feel in your home
  • Number of complaints around building safety
  • Number of building safety issues reported

You said, we listened

We will inform you of what customers have told us, what decisions we have made and an explanation if we can’t do what you have asked us for.

Fire Safety Panel

We are also offering the opportunity for a representative from each high-rise building we manage to become a member of our Fire Safety Panel. If this is something that interests you, please do let your property manager know.

Building safety concerns and complaints

You have the right to raise a concern or complaint if you feel a report or work carried out has not been handled in the way it should.

Raising a concern

If you are concerned with something in the building or for example how a building safety repair has been completed, please contact us.

Raising a complaint

If you have raised a concern with us but are not satisfied with how this has been dealt with, or you still feel the building is unsafe, you can contact our Customer Feedback Team (details to the right) to raise a complaint.

Escalating a complaint

If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you have the right to escalate this back to us or if you feel we have not dealt with your issue to the Building Safety Regulator.

Learning from complaints

As an organisation we publish themes of our complaints and lessons learnt on our website.

Handling complaints

Our approach to dealing with Building Safety complaints is compliant with the Building Safety Act 2022.

  • Any building safety complaints should be reported to us via our Customer Feedback Team, either via the Plumlife
    website or through the Directory on 0161 447 5050 or if you are a Great Places customer our website or through The Hub on 0300 123 1966.
  • Any formal complaint will be acknowledged within 3 – 5 working days and an investigation and resolution provided within 10 working days.
  • Following the complaint, our Customer Feedback Team will provide a written response including details of the investigation that has taken place and the outcomes and any action/resolutions to be undertaken.

Who is responsible for safety in your home and communal spaces?

It is your responsibility to:

  • Be safe in your home by keeping your escape routes clear
  • Make sure you regularly check your fire alarm
  • Be mindful of your neighbours and ensure that the space outside your flat is clear and free from obstruction at all times
  • Use the bin chutes to dispose of your rubbish safely – if you have any issues around this please do contact your Property Manager
  • If you have any issues, especially around fire safety please contact the building and fire safety team: buildingsafetyandfire@greatplaces.org.uk

It is our responsibility to:

  • Ensure the block and your home are safe and meet regulatory standards
  • Make sure that your escape routes are well lit
  • Maintain your fire doors to regulatory standards
  • Ensure anyone working in the block is competent to do so
  • Have contact with local services, such as the fire service to ensure your safety

Contact us

Plumlife customers

Online

Visit the Plumlife website where you can submit an online form. We aim to respond to all enquiries within 3 working days.

Plumlife: Contact us

By email

If you have a query about fire safety in your building, you can email the Building and Fire Safety Team: BuildingSafetyandFire@greatplaces.org.uk

For other matters, you can get in touch with The Plumlife Directory: directory@plumlife.co.uk

By phone

We’re open for business 8am–6pm, Monday to Friday.

0161 447 5050

Great Places customers

Online

Visit our website where you can submit an online form. We aim to respond to all enquiries within 3 working days.

Great Places: Contact us

Access our Live Chat facility through Chatabot where you can speak directly with us between 8am and 6pm, Monday to Friday.

By email

If you have a query about fire safety in your building, you can email the Building and Fire Safety Team: BuildingSafetyandFire@greatplaces.org.uk

For other matters, you can get in touch with The Hub: customerhub@greatplaces.org.uk

By phone

We’re open for business 8am–6pm, Monday to Friday.

0300 123 1966

Fire action

If a fire breaks out in your flat:

  • Leave the room where the fire is straight away, then close the door.
  • Tell everyone in your flat and get them to leave.
  • Close the flat entrance door behind you.
  • Do not stay behind to put the fire out. Wait outside, away from the building.
  • Call the fire service - dial 999 or 112.

If you see or hear of a fire in another part of the building:

  • The building is designed to contain a fire in the flat where it starts.
  • This means it will usually be safe for you to stay in your own flat if the fire is elsewhere.
  • You must also leave immediately if smoke or heat affects your home, or you are told to leave by the fire service.
  • If you are in doubt - get out.

To call the fire service:

  • Dial 999 or 112
  • When the operator answers, give your telephone number and ask for fire.
  • When the fire service reply, give them the address where the fire is.
  • Do not end the call until the fire service has repeated the address correctly.

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