Floor and Building Plans

Accurate and accessible floor and building plans are a vital component of fire safety in residential buildings. They support fire and rescue services by providing crucial information during emergencies, improving response times and decision-making.

What Are Fire Safety Plans?

Fire safety plans include:

• Floor plans: showing flat numbers, stairways, lifts, and fire-fighting equipment
• Building plans: detailing orientation, the layout, firefighting systems, and critical safety infrastructure.

Images: example PLANs

These documents must be up-to-date, clearly labelled, and match the current layout of the building.

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Who Needs to Provide Plans?

Under Regulation 6 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, all high-rise residential buildings over 18 metres must provide both floor and building plans to the local fire and rescue service.

• These plans are usually stored in the building's Secure Information Box (SIB).

Regulation 6 – Floor and Building PlanS (GOV.UK)

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Floor Plans - Features

• Clearly mark flat numbers and stairwells all in A3 size and laminated
• Identify / label stairwells and main entrance
• Indicate firefighting equipment: risers, extinguishers, control panels
• Use symbols that match national standards (see symbol key)
• Reflect real-world layout, keep plans updated when changes are made

Image: example of some symbols

• Floor and building plans are mandatory for high-rise residential buildings
• Must be accurate, legible, and match the current building layout
• Should be stored in your building's SIB for fire service access

List of Plans

The following is a list of PLANs and supporting documentation for use by Fire & Rescue Services; it can be supplied by Responsible Persons of a premises inside a secure information box.

• Orientation (SITE or BLOCK) PLAN
• FLOOR PLANs
• ON ARRIVAL INFORMATION sheet
• PEEP(s)