Your landlord has a duty to carry out regular fire risk assessments, which should include all doors between your home and shared parts of your building.
If the fire safety risk assessor recommends that your front door is brought up to current fire safety standards, your landlord could ask you to upgrade or replace your front door under the terms of your lease. Failure to do so may be breaching the terms of your lease.
Leases commonly have a clause that requires the leaseholder to comply with statutory requirements, which could include following fire safety recommendations about entrance doors.
More information you might find useful:
- Who pays to replace a fire door?
- What happens if I breach the terms of my lease?
- What are the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022?
- What is a fire risk assessment and do I need one?
- My building has no fire risk assessment. What should I do?
- More Frequently Asked Questions on Fire safety
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