The London Fire Brigade attended 521 lithium-ion battery fire incidents in 2025 the highest total of any fire service in the UK, representing nearly a third of all lithium-ion battery fires recorded nationally that year. The London Assembly’s March 2026 data analysis confirmed that fires involving lithium batteries are the fastest-growing fire risk in London. London firefighters are attending a lithium-ion battery fire somewhere in the capital almost every day.
For London commercial car park building owners, this is not a background statistic. It is the operational context for a fire risk that sits directly within the environments they own, manage, and are legally responsible for. London’s commercial car park stock is characterised by high-density underground and multi-storey structures in central and inner London boroughs exactly the environments where the consequences of an EV battery fire are most severe. Heat, smoke, and toxic gases accumulate rapidly. Conventional overhead suppression cannot reach the battery pack below the vehicle floor. Evacuation routes serve not just the car park but the occupied office, retail, and residential floors above.
The regulatory environment has responded. In late 2026, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities brought into force new fire safety regulations for enclosed car parks both new constructions and existing structures addressing ventilation, suppression, and EV charging controls directly. A building owner installing EV chargers in an enclosed London car park under Part S of the Building Regulations is meeting one compliance obligation. If the fire risk assessment has not been updated to reflect the changed risk profile of that car park, the building is not meeting a second, separate one.
This guide covers everything London commercial car park building owners need to know about EV fire safety the specific hazards of the London car park environment, the full legal framework, the suppression systems that provide genuine protection, and how to build the compliance programme that the regulatory and insurance environment now demands.
For context on how each suppression system compares in enclosed car park environments, our guide to comparing EV fire protection solutions for commercial sites provides the full product analysis. For the broader question of how EV fire risks affect insurance coverage for London commercial properties, our guide to how EV fire risks affect commercial insurance requirements covers the documentation that London commercial property insurers are increasingly requiring.
Part One: The London EV Fire Risk Landscape Why This City Faces a Distinct Challenge
The London Fire Brigade Data That Building Owners Cannot Ignore
The London Fire Brigade’s 2025 and 2026 data presents a clear and unambiguous picture of a city facing accelerating lithium-ion battery fire risk. In 2025, LFB attended 521 fire incidents involving lithium-ion batteries a 28% increase on the previous year. In those 521 incidents, 109 people were injured and three people were killed. Fires involving lithium batteries were confirmed by the London Assembly as the fastest-growing fire risk in London.
Of all UK fire services, LFB recorded the highest number of lithium-ion battery fires in 2025, accounting for nearly 30% of the national total recorded by the 42 fire services that responded to QBE’s February 2026 FOI request. London is not one of several high-risk cities in this picture. It is, by a significant margin, the highest-risk city in the UK for lithium-ion battery fire incidents.
For commercial car parks, the specific risk within this broader picture is clear. LFB’s historical FOI data on car park fires shows a consistent pattern of vehicle fires in public car parking, allocated parking, and car/coach/commercial vehicle parking sites a pattern that will grow as the proportion of EVs in London’s vehicle population increases. By the end of 2025, EVs represented over 20% of all new car registrations nationally. In London where ultra-low emission zone requirements are driving faster EV adoption than the national average that proportion is higher still.
Why London’s Car Park Stock Creates Unique Fire Risk
London’s commercial car park stock is not typical of the UK as a whole. The density of development in central and inner London, the premium on land, and the volume of commercial activity concentrated in the city’s central areas have produced a car park environment characterised by:
Underground and basement structures. A significant proportion of central London commercial car parks are partially or fully underground below occupied office, retail, and residential floors. A thermal runaway event in an underground car park does not simply threaten the vehicles in the affected bay. It creates a fire and toxic gas environment beneath occupied structures, complicating evacuation, threatening structural integrity, and placing a firefighting challenge that the standard car park fire scenarios in Approved Document B were not designed to address.
The current Approved Document B guidance was based on a maximum three-car fire scenario. The Liverpool Echo Arena fire in 2018 and the Luton Airport fire in 2023 both demonstrated that uncontrolled fire spread across large numbers of vehicles is a realistic outcome not a theoretical one. For London’s underground commercial car parks, the structural consequences of a multi-vehicle EV fire in a basement level would extend to the building above in ways that neither the current regulatory framework nor most existing fire risk assessments have explicitly evaluated.
High vehicle density with limited separation. London car park design is driven by space economics. Bays are typically designed to the minimum width standards, and the separation distances between vehicles as well as between vehicles and structural columns, walls, and ceiling-mounted services are minimised throughout. The fire safety consequence of this is that vehicle-to-vehicle thermal runaway propagation risk is elevated compared to lower-density parking configurations outside the capital.
Complex mixed-use buildings. London’s commercial buildings commonly combine car parking with office, retail, hotel, residential, and cultural uses in the same structure. The Responsible Person obligations for fire safety across these mixed-use buildings are correspondingly complex and the consequences of an EV battery fire in the car park component extend across every use above it.
High throughput of diverse vehicle types. London’s commercial car parks increasingly serve not only passenger EVs but e-cargo bikes, electric delivery vans, and electric motorcycles each with different battery sizes, different charging requirements, and different thermal runaway consequence profiles. The fire risk assessment for a London commercial car park cannot assume a uniform vehicle type across all bays.
Part Two: The Legal Framework for London Commercial Car Park Building Owners
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 The Foundation Obligation
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 is the primary fire safety legislation for all non-domestic premises in England and Wales, including London commercial car parks. Article 9 requires the Responsible Person to carry out and maintain a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment. The RRFSO has been explicitly updated to require lithium-ion battery risks to be addressed within fire risk assessments for commercial premises.
For London commercial car park building owners, this update has a direct consequence. A fire risk assessment produced before EV charging was installed in the car park is not a current, suitable, and sufficient assessment. Installing EV charging under Part S of the Building Regulations and failing to update the fire risk assessment to reflect the changed risk profile is not a minor procedural gap it is a breach of Article 9 of the RRFSO that the London Fire Brigade has enforcement powers to address.
Compliance with one regulatory regime Part S does not discharge compliance with a separate one the RRFSO. These are two separate regulatory regimes, and compliance with one does not discharge the other.
The Building Safety Act 2022 New Obligations for London Building Owners
Since Section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 came into force, the requirement to record a fire risk assessment in full now applies to all Responsible Persons in England removing the previous threshold that exempted buildings with fewer than five employees.
For London commercial buildings over 11 metres or 18 metres, there is now a legal mandate for all Responsible Persons on a single site to share fire safety information with one another to ensure a cohesive evacuation strategy. In a multi-tenanted London commercial building with a shared car park, this means the building owner or managing agent holding Responsible Person obligations for the car park must share relevant fire risk information including EV fire safety measures and emergency procedures with tenants who hold Responsible Person obligations for their own leased areas.
The Fire Safety Act 2021 extended the Responsible Person’s duties to the building’s external walls and structure ensuring no part of the premises is overlooked during a fire risk assessment. For underground car parks that form part of the building structure, this means the structural fire resistance of the car park itself, including its adequacy for an EV battery fire heat release profile, falls within the Responsible Person’s assessment obligation.
The New Late-2026 Enclosed Car Park Regulations
In late 2026, the DLUHC introduced new fire safety regulations for enclosed car parks both new constructions and existing structures. These regulations were a direct regulatory response to the escalating concerns surrounding EV battery fires and address ventilation requirements, suppression specifications, and EV charging control provision that the previous framework did not specifically address.
For London commercial car park building owners, these new regulations apply to both new car park development and existing car parks. The regulations cover both new constructions and existing structures meaning that owners who have not previously commissioned specialist EV fire safety provision cannot treat their existing car parks as outside scope.
London car park building owners should commission a specialist EV fire risk assessment that reviews their current provision against these new requirements as a priority action. Any gap between the current provision and the new regulatory baseline must be addressed through a documented remediation programme.
Part S of the Building Regulations
Part S of the Building Regulations requires EV charge point provision in new commercial buildings and major renovations with more than ten parking spaces. Since June 2022, new non-residential buildings with more than ten parking spaces must have at least one charge point, with cable routes to at least 20% of the remaining spaces.
The mandate is clear, and adoption is accelerating. The problem is that compliance with Part S creates the EV charging infrastructure that generates the fire risk while a separate obligation under the RRFSO requires that fire risk to be assessed and addressed. The two obligations are linked in practice but separate in law. A London building owner who has installed EV charging under Part S and assumes that discharges their fire safety obligations has misunderstood the regulatory position.
PAS 1899 The EV Charging Infrastructure Safety Standard
PAS 1899, published by the British Standards Institution, establishes baseline fire safety requirements for commercial EV charging infrastructure. It is referenced by insurers and enforcing authorities including the London Fire Brigade in its building fire safety inspection programme as the minimum expected standard for commercial EV charging environments. London commercial car park building owners specifying or maintaining EV charging infrastructure should treat PAS 1899 compliance as a baseline requirement, not an optional enhancement.
Part Three: The Specific Fire Hazards of London Commercial Car Parks
Thermal Runaway in an Enclosed London Car Park The Worst-Case Scenario
For London building owners, the worst-case EV fire scenario is a thermal runaway event in a basement or underground commercial car park during overnight or weekend charging when the building above is unoccupied or lightly staffed. A single failing battery cell enters thermal runaway. The vehicle catches fire. Heat, smoke, and hydrogen fluoride, carbon monoxide, and methane accumulate in the enclosed space. The fire spreads to adjacent vehicles. Structural elements are exposed to a heat profile that the building was not designed to resist. And the conventional overhead sprinkler system which delivers water from above cannot penetrate the vehicle floor to reach the battery pack driving the event.
Research published in December 2025 specifically recommends formal research into whether standard OH3 and HHP3 sprinkler systems are effective against EV battery fires in enclosed car park environments, concluding that given the lack of certainty, unless validated by appropriate testing, suppression cannot be relied on to mitigate the risk. This research does not come from a fringe source. It was published by Sweco, one of the UK’s leading building engineering consultancies, and references the DLUHC and OZEV guidance context directly.
For London building owners, the December 2025 research position is significant. It means that a London commercial car park relying solely on overhead sprinklers for EV charging fire protection cannot demonstrate that its suppression provision is technically adequate at precisely the moment when the regulatory environment is tightening specifically around enclosed car park EV fire safety.
The Electrical Infrastructure Challenge in London Commercial Buildings
London commercial buildings particularly those built or refurbished before EV charging was contemplated are not typically designed with the electrical infrastructure capacity for simultaneous multi-bay EV charging. Installing EV chargers without commissioning an electrical infrastructure assessment creates overloading conditions that are among the most common causes of commercial building fires.
For building owners in multi-tenanted London commercial buildings, the electrical infrastructure obligation is particularly complex. The grid connection serving the building, the distribution infrastructure across the building’s common areas, and the sub-metering arrangements for tenant areas may all require assessment and modification to support the EV charging load mandated under Part S. Independent EV charging point isolation equipment and controls must be accessible for use by firefighters a requirement that must be built into the installation design, not added retrospectively.
Vehicle Separation and Structural Loading The London Space Constraint
London commercial car parks face a design tension that most other UK car parks do not. Space economics in central London drive bay dimensions to the minimum standards, and the separation distances between vehicles in typical London underground or multi-storey car parks are materially less than what fire safety guidance identifies as adequate for preventing thermal runaway propagation.
Electric vehicles are significantly heavier than their ICE equivalents. A typical electric SUV can weigh upwards of 2,500kg a 20% to 30% increase in static load over its petrol equivalent. The IStructE 2026 guidance for multi-storey and underground car parks specifically requires structural engineers to calculate floor loading with these higher averages to prevent long-term structural fatigue. For London building owners undertaking car park assessment or refurbishment, the structural loading implications of a transitioning vehicle population are a fire safety consideration as much as a structural engineering one heavier vehicles increase the structural stress on floors during a fire event as well as in normal operation
Part Four: Passive and Active Fire Protection for London Commercial Car Parks
Passive Fire Protection What London Car Park Building Owners Must Address
Passive fire protection measures in a London commercial car park must account for the specific characteristics of EV battery fires rather than the standard vehicle fire scenarios used in most existing designs.
Structural fire resistance. The compartmentation between the car park and the occupied floors above must be assessed for its adequacy against an EV battery fire heat release profile. The hydrocarbon fire growth curve recommended by December 2025 research as potentially more appropriate than the standard time-temperature curve for EV battery fire scenarios generates significantly higher early-stage temperatures than the standard curve. For London underground car parks where the ceiling of the car park is the floor of an occupied office or residential level, this has direct structural implications.
Fire stopping around EV charging infrastructure. The installation of EV charging equipment in a London car park creates cable routes, conduit penetrations, and riser connections through compartment boundaries that must be fire-stopped. Every penetration through a fire-rated element floor, ceiling, or wall must be sealed to maintain compartment integrity during a fire event. For car parks in multi-storey mixed-use buildings, these penetrations are particularly critical because they connect the high-risk car park environment to occupied building areas above.
Compartmentation between EV charging zones and non-EV areas. Where a London car park has a mixed provision some bays with EV charging and others without physical compartmentation or separation between the two zones reduces the propagation risk from a charging bay fire to the wider car park structure.
EV FirePro The Bay-Level Solution for London Enclosed Car Parks
EV FirePro is the primary active fire protection recommendation for London enclosed and underground commercial car parks with EV charging. It is permanently installed at floor level within each EV charging bay, activating automatically on thermal event detection, and delivering targeted water spray upward to the vehicle undercarriage where the battery pack is located with lateral protection to adjacent bays.
EV FirePro addresses the fundamental limitation of overhead sprinkler systems in EV environments: it reaches the battery pack from below, where the thermal event originates. For London building owners whose car parks rely on overhead-only suppression, EV FirePro provides the bay-level protection layer that the December 2025 research position and the late-2026 enclosed car park regulations both point toward as the required standard.
EV FirePro was developed in consultation with fire brigade personnel and independently tested at Applus+ Laboratories in Spain under simulated EV thermal runaway conditions in an enclosed car park environment. Testing evaluated fire spread behaviour, adjacent vehicle exposure, heat conditions, and operational response providing the independent validation that London building owners need when demonstrating suppression system adequacy to the London Fire Brigade during a building inspection, and to insurers during underwriting or claims review.
At a profile of less than 30mm above finished floor level, EV FirePro can be installed in both new-build London car park developments and in existing underground and multi-storey structures without structural modification making it deployable across the full range of London’s commercial car park types.
The Turtle Fire System for London Car Parks with On-Site Management
For London commercial car parks in buildings with concierge, security, or management presence during operating hours including corporate office buildings with occupied reception areas and managed car parks with attendants the Turtle Fire System provides a deployable vehicle-level suppression option for incidents during attended periods.
The Turtle system delivers high-volume water cooling directly to the battery pack from beneath a burning vehicle, operating unmanned once deployed. For London building management teams who want a deployable first-response capability to complement automated EV FirePro protection in charging bays, the Turtle system provides the vehicle-level coverage for incidents in non-EV-FirePro-equipped bays and for transitional incidents during the period between detection and fire service arrival.
Trident Synthetic Foam for Post-Incident Reignition Management
Trident synthetic foam concentrate is the PFAS-compliant replacement for AFFF for London commercial properties whose fire response plan includes foam application. For London car parks in environmentally sensitive areas, near Thames tributary drainage, or subject to Environment Agency conditions on surface water discharge, Trident’s PFAS-free formulation addresses both the suppression requirement and the environmental discharge obligation simultaneously.
The extended reignition risk of lithium battery fires which can persist for 72 hours after apparent suppression means that post-incident management is a distinct phase of the London building owner’s emergency response plan. Trident provides the reignition inhibition capability for the post-incident window that water-only suppression cannot deliver.
Part Five: What a Specialist EV Fire Risk Assessment Must Cover for London Commercial Car Parks
A specialist EV fire risk assessment for a London commercial car park is not a standard commercial fire risk assessment with an EV section appended. It is a site-specific technical document that addresses the specific characteristics of the London car park environment its structural type, vehicle population, occupancy pattern, charging configuration, and building integration.
The assessment must cover:
| Assessment Element | London-Specific Consideration |
| Car park structural type | Underground, basement, multi-storey, or mixed structural fire resistance against EV heat profile |
| Vehicle separation distances | London bay dimensions typically minimal propagation risk elevated |
| EV charging bay count and configuration | Layout relative to structural elements, exits, and adjacent occupancies |
| Occupancy pattern | 24-hour operation vs business hours overnight unattended charging risk |
| Existing detection provision | Standard smoke/heat detectors not adequate for enclosed EV environments off-gas detection requirement |
| Suppression system adequacy | Overhead-only not validated for enclosed EV environments bay-level requirement |
| Electrical infrastructure capacity | Original building supply not typically rated for simultaneous multi-bay EV charging |
| Firefighter access and isolation | Independent isolation controls, signage, and firefighter information provision |
| Compartmentation to floors above | Structural fire resistance of floor/ceiling elements between car park and occupied building |
| Mixed-use building responsibilities | Shared Responsible Person obligations with tenants above |
| Late-2026 regulation compliance | Ventilation, suppression, and EV charging control requirements under new DLUHC regulations |
| Reignition protocol | Post-incident 72-hour monitoring period defined in emergency procedures |
Fire and Safety UK conducts specialist fire risk assessments for London commercial car parks producing site-specific, technically grounded written reports that address every element of the London car park EV fire risk profile and provide a prioritised protection programme matched to the building’s specific configuration, vehicle population, and compliance obligations.
For London building owners at the stage of appointing a contractor, our guide to what to look for when choosing an EV fire protection contractor covers the accreditation, competence, and experience criteria that distinguish a genuine EV specialist from a general fire contractor. Our guide to questions to ask before installing EV fire suppression systems provides the pre-installation checklist that London building owners should use before committing to any suppression specification.
Part Six: Emergency Response Planning for London Commercial Car Parks
What London Car Park Emergency Procedures Must Address
A London commercial car park with EV charging requires emergency procedures that go substantially beyond the standard evacuation plan. The London Fire Brigade’s enforcement inspection programme reviews emergency procedures as part of building fire safety compliance and the adequacy of those procedures for an EV battery fire scenario is increasingly a specific area of scrutiny.
Toxic gas evacuation. EV battery fires release hydrogen fluoride, carbon monoxide, and methane. In the enclosed environment of a London basement or underground car park, these gases can reach dangerous concentrations within minutes of a thermal event beginning. Evacuation routes from the car park must direct occupants away from likely gas accumulation zones and the emergency procedures must communicate these route constraints to building users in plain language.
Firefighter information provision. Independent EV charging point isolation equipment and controls must be accessible for use by firefighters. Premises information and signage must indicate the positions of EV charging points, power supply isolation controls, and water supplies. For London multi-storey buildings with complex service infrastructure, this information must be maintained in the building’s firefighter information file updated every time charging infrastructure changes and confirmed during the building’s annual fire risk assessment review.
Reignition monitoring protocol. The emergency procedures must define the post-incident reignition monitoring period, who is responsible for monitoring, what triggers recall of the London Fire Brigade, and the procedures for managing a vehicle involved in a thermal event through the full resolution window.
Multi-tenancy coordination. The Building Safety Act 2022 mandate for Responsible Persons in multi-tenanted buildings to share fire safety information means that the building owner’s car park emergency procedures must be communicated to and integrated with the emergency procedures of every tenant in the building above. A car park fire that requires evacuation of the building above cannot be managed in isolation from the building’s broader evacuation strategy.
Part Seven: Insurance and Commercial Implications for London Building Owners
London commercial property insurers are among the most sophisticated and responsive to emerging risk data in the UK market. The LFB’s 521 lithium-ion battery fire incidents in 2025 and the London Assembly’s confirmation that battery fires are the fastest-growing fire risk in the capital are not background information for London commercial property underwriters. They are active inputs into premium calculations, condition setting, and coverage terms for commercial properties with EV charging infrastructure.
For London commercial car park building owners, the insurance implications of inadequate EV fire safety provision are direct. A fire at a London commercial car park where the fire risk assessment had not been updated since EV charging was installed, and where no bay-level suppression had been specified, provides the conditions for a coverage challenge that the insurer will pursue based on material non-disclosure and inadequate risk mitigation.
Some commercial property policies now include specific conditions around EV charging, and failing to disclose the installation of chargers or to maintain compliant electrical systems can create coverage gaps that only become apparent after an incident. London building owners should verify with their insurer that EV charging installation has been disclosed, that the policy explicitly covers EV battery fire, and that the current fire risk assessment has been submitted as part of the insurer’s risk file.
Our guide to how EV fire risks affect commercial insurance requirements covers the complete documentation package that London commercial property insurers are increasingly requiring and what the consequences of documentation gaps are for claims and premium positions.
How Fire and Safety UK Supports London Commercial Car Park Building Owners
Fire and Safety UK is a specialist EV fire protection contractor providing fire risk assessments and suppression system installation for commercial car parks across London and the whole of the United Kingdom. The company operates nationally from its base in Fife, Scotland serving London commercial property owners, managing agents, and property developers with the specialist EV fire safety capability that London’s car park stock now demands.
For London commercial car parks, every engagement begins with a physical site assessment that maps the specific risk profile of the installation car park structural type, vehicle population, charging bay configuration, existing detection and suppression provision, electrical infrastructure, and occupancy pattern. No specification is issued without that assessment, and no suppression system is recommended without understanding the specific London car park environment it must protect.
The suppression product portfolio covers all three primary systems: EV FirePro bay-level fixed suppression for enclosed London car parks, the Turtle Fire System for managed buildings with a staffed first-response capability, and Trident synthetic foam for PFAS-compliant post-incident reignition management.
For London office building owners with EV charging in enclosed car parks, our guide to commercial EV charging fire safety for office buildings in Scotland provides the office building context that applies equally to English and Welsh commercial developments under the RRFSO 2005 and Approved Document B. For fleet operators using London car parks as depot charging locations, our fire risk assessment guide for EV fleet businesses covers the fleet-specific compliance framework alongside the car park assessment requirement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is London particularly high-risk for EV battery fires in commercial car parks?
London recorded 521 lithium-ion battery fire incidents in 2025 nearly a third of all UK incidents the highest of any fire service nationally. The London Assembly confirmed battery fires as the fastest-growing fire risk in the capital. London’s commercial car park stock, dominated by high-density underground and multi-storey enclosed structures, concentrates this risk in environments where thermal runaway consequences are most severe.
What fire safety legislation applies to London commercial car park building owners with EV charging?
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, updated to explicitly require lithium-ion battery risks to be addressed in assessments. The Building Safety Act 2022, which extended full fire risk assessment recording to all Responsible Persons. The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 for buildings over 11 metres. New DLUHC enclosed car park fire safety regulations brought into force in late 2026. And PAS 1899 as the baseline specification for EV charging infrastructure safety.
Do standard overhead sprinklers adequately protect a London car park from EV battery fires?
No. Research published in December 2025 questions whether standard OH3 and HHP3 sprinkler systems are effective against EV battery fires in enclosed car park environments. EV battery packs are mounted beneath the vehicle floor, making overhead systems unable to reach the source of the thermal event. Bay-level suppression such as EV FirePro is required.
What are the new 2026 fire safety regulations for enclosed car parks in London?
DLUHC introduced new regulations for enclosed car parks in late 2026 covering both new and existing structures addressing ventilation, suppression, and EV charging control requirements. London building owners should commission a specialist EV fire risk assessment to review current provision against these requirements.
Who is the Responsible Person for EV fire safety in a multi-tenanted London commercial building?
The building owner or managing agent holds Responsible Person obligations for common areas including shared car parks. The Building Safety Act 2022 mandates information sharing between all Responsible Persons on a single site to ensure a cohesive evacuation strategy.
What suppression systems are recommended for London commercial car parks?
EV FirePro bay-level fixed suppression as the primary system for enclosed and underground car parks. The Turtle Fire System as a deployable complement for buildings with on-site staffing. Trident synthetic foam for PFAS-compliant post-incident reignition management.
Does Fire and Safety UK provide EV fire safety services for London commercial car parks?
Yes. Fire and Safety UK provides specialist EV fire risk assessments and suppression system installation for London commercial car parks nationally, serving building owners, managing agents, and developers across the capital and the whole of the UK.
The Regulatory and Enforcement Environment in London Is Tightening Act Now Rather Than Reactively
London is the highest-risk city in the UK for lithium-ion battery fires. Its commercial car park stock represents the highest-consequence environment for an EV battery fire event. Its regulatory environment RRFSO 2005, Building Safety Act 2022, Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, new late-2026 enclosed car park regulations, and the London Fire Brigade’s active inspection programme is tightening consistently and specifically around EV charging fire safety.
A London commercial car park building owner who has installed EV charging under Part S without updating the fire risk assessment, without commissioning a specialist EV fire risk assessment, and without specifying bay-level suppression for enclosed charging bays is carrying a compliance gap that the current regulatory environment will not overlook indefinitely.
The cost of addressing that gap through a specialist assessment and appropriate suppression installation is measurable and finite. The cost of addressing it through an enforcement notice, an insurance claim dispute, or a post-incident investigation is neither.
Fire and Safety UK provides the specialist EV fire risk assessment and suppression system installation that London commercial car park building owners need from a first conversation to a complete compliance programme.
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