Fire risk assessments, EICRs, PAT testing, emergency lighting, legionella and health & safety assessments for shops, cafés, offices, workshops, gyms, salons, guest houses and HMOs across Tyneside, Wearside, County Durham, Teesside and Northumberland. You see the price before you book, pay by card, and a vetted local specialist does the work. No quotes, no surveys, no sales call.
Almost nobody books a fire risk assessment because they woke up wanting one. It is the insurer's renewal form, the council licensing officer, the landlord's agent, the fire officer's visit or the franchise audit. Pick the one that just happened to you.
Renewal questionnaires increasingly ask for a current FRA, an EICR and evidence of extinguisher and alarm servicing. Missing any of them can void a claim.
Book a fire risk assessment, from £345 →Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham and Middlesbrough all run property licensing schemes whose conditions routinely require a fire risk assessment and a current EICR.
Book an EICR, from £395 →A new shop, café or workshop needs an FRA before opening, and the landlord will usually want the electrical installation certified before you trade.
Price the full set →Tyne and Wear and Cleveland fire services both run business safety audits. If you've had a letter or a visit, the assessment is the first thing they'll ask to see.
Get it booked this week →Fire safety across the region sits under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, as amended by the Fire Safety Act 2021 and Section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022. Since 1 October 2023 the Responsible Person for any non-domestic premises must record the fire risk assessment in full — the old "five or more employees" threshold no longer applies. Enforcement is by Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service for Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and the two Tyneside boroughs, County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service, Cleveland Fire Brigade for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Redcar, and Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service for the county.
All four run business fire safety audits. A visit typically checks the fire risk assessment, the alarm and emergency lighting logbooks, extinguisher service labels and the escape routes. Our reports are written to be read by an inspecting officer, not a generic template.
Newcastle operates selective licensing in designated areas and additional licensing for smaller HMOs across much of the city, with a further selective designation starting on 30 September 2026. Sunderland, County Durham and Middlesbrough also run selective licensing in designated areas. HMOs with five or more people from two or more households need a mandatory licence everywhere. Licence conditions commonly require a fire risk assessment, a satisfactory EICR at least every five years (the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector Regulations 2020), working fire detection, and — for larger HMOs — emergency lighting and serviced extinguishers.
Every HMO fire risk assessment is priced at £995 because sleeping accommodation changes the assessment materially: escape from bedrooms, detection in every room, compartmentation between lettings. That is the price at checkout, not a starting figure.
RiskSorted is a principal contractor: we hold the contract with the customer, set the price and stand behind the work. Local specialists carry it out. We are adding fire risk assessors, electricians with inspection and testing qualifications, and fire equipment engineers across Tyneside, Wearside, County Durham, Teesside and Northumberland.
The premises are the same everywhere — shops, cafés, restaurants, offices, workshops, gyms, salons, guest houses, HMOs — but the triggers and the enforcing authority differ. This is what tends to bring people to us in each part of the region.
Grainger Town and Grey Street offices, Bigg Market and Quayside bars and restaurants, Ouseburn studios and independent retail. Premises licence renewals and landlords' agents asking for a current FRA and EICR drive most bookings. Tyne and Wear FRS enforces.
One of the densest HMO markets in the country. Newcastle's additional licensing for smaller HMOs and its selective designations mean the EICR-plus-FRA pairing is the standard order, with fire alarm servicing where a system is fitted. Every HMO FRA is £995 fixed.
Team Valley units and workshops, Gateshead Quays venues, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay hospitality, South Shields seafront guest houses. Insurers and lease renewals are the usual triggers; seafront B&Bs are sleeping-risk premises and priced accordingly.
City-centre retail and hospitality, Washington's industrial estates and the automotive supply chain around them, and a large private rented sector under selective licensing in parts of the city. EICRs on older installations and PAT for workshops and offices are the recurring requests.
University-city HMOs, Durham's tourist and hospitality trade, market-town retail, and County Durham's selective licensing areas. Legionella assessments for premises with stored hot water and emergency lighting tests before lease renewals come up often. County Durham and Darlington FRS enforces.
Town-centre retail, engineering and logistics units, care and nursery premises. Care homes and nurseries: care is a sleeping-risk premises (£995 FRA); nurseries and schools are priced by footprint, which we ask for in tennis courts rather than square metres.
Linthorpe Road and Baker Street independents, Stockton high street, Teesside Park retail, and the contractor and service businesses around the process industry. We cover the offices, depots and workshops; the COMAH sites themselves sit under HSE and are outside our scope. Cleveland Fire Brigade enforces.
Marina and seafront hospitality, town-centre retail, small manufacturing. Anywhere people sleep is a £995 fire risk assessment with a bedroom count; above twenty bedrooms we offer a planning call before the visit and the price does not change.
Market-town retail and hospitality, Cramlington's business parks, Blyth's port and energy-sector units, rural pubs and guest houses. Northumberland FRS enforces. We cover the county from the Tyneside panel at the same fixed prices, with no travel loading — including Alnwick and Berwick.
The things people in the North East actually ask before they book.
The same prices apply everywhere we work. There is no North East surcharge, no travel loading and no "prices on application" — a business in Sunderland pays exactly what a business in London pays, and sees the number before booking.
| Fire risk assessment | £345 for a small premises (one floor, nobody sleeping there, under about a tennis court); £495 for two floors; £695 for three floors or a larger footprint; £995 for four or more floors, anywhere people sleep overnight, and every HMO. Fixed at checkout — no survey, no call-back. Report in your account within 14 days of the visit or 10% back. |
| Health & safety risk assessment | £495 for one floor, £695 for two to three, £995 for four or more |
| Legionella risk assessment | £395 small, £495 standard, £695 larger, £995 complex — priced from taps, heaters and tanks, "don't know" allowed — plus lab water samples at £55 each, counted from your answers and included in every assessment (a small café is usually two, so from £505) |
| EICR | £395 covers the first 20 circuits, then £17.99 each |
| Emergency lighting | £395 for one floor, £495 for two to three, £795 for four or more |
| Fire alarm servicing | £395 for one floor, £495 for two to three, £795 for four or more |
| PAT testing | £149 covers the first 100 appliances, then 99p each. Year-two visual inspection £99. |
| Fire extinguishers | £99 covers the first 5, then £15 each |
Jobs starting outside Monday to Friday, 7am to 2pm carry a 50% uplift. It is the start time that counts, not the finish — a job starting at 1pm and running to 6pm is charged at the standard rate. All prices exclude VAT, which is added at 20% at checkout — you see the VAT-inclusive total before you pay.
We only ask questions you can answer. What kind of place it is, how many floors, roughly how many appliances, and anything that won't work for timing. If a North East business owner would not know the answer without ringing someone, we don't ask it.
Reviewed by qualified compliance practitioners. Last updated 07 September 2026. Regulatory references checked against current Government guidance and the enforcing authorities for the region (Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Darlington, Cleveland and Northumberland fire and rescue services). Newcastle licensing designations checked against Newcastle City Council's published schemes. Standards referenced at their current editions: BS 5266-1:2025, BS 5839-1:2025, BS 7671:2018+A4:2026, BS 8674:2025, PAS 79-1:2020, ACoP L8 and HSG274. Fire risk assessment pricing reflects the three-question fixed-price model introduced September 2026.
This guide provides general information about compliance requirements in the North East for non-domestic premises and the private rental sector. It is not legal or professional advice. For your specific premises, the fire risk assessment, the health and safety risk assessment and the relevant enforcing authority's guidance take precedence. Council licensing schemes change — check your council's current designation before relying on anything here.