FRAEW / PAS 9980 in Canary Wharf

FRAEW / PAS 9980 across Canary Wharf

FRAEW and PAS 9980 work in Canary Wharf is evidence-led. We review available external wall information, identify gaps and coordinate competent professional input where the building scope requires it.

PAS 9980 is the risk-based methodology used for external wall appraisals. Our role is to support the evidence review, site investigation scope, reporting brief and next-step advice for buildings in Canary Wharf, linking findings to EWS1 requests, facade investigations and remediation planning where appropriate.

Common Building Issues in Canary Wharf

A Fire Risk Appraisal of External Walls is where an EWS1 on Canary Wharf's taller flatted stock gets its substance: the form records a conclusion, but the FRAEW is the assessment behind it, and for the blocks among new-build towers, luxury apartments, converted dockside buildings and commercial premises we base that assessment on what the wall is actually built from rather than on the planning file.

Planning and Conservation in Canary Wharf

Where a FRAEW points to external works on a Canary Wharf block, the local conservation and design controls apply to the remediation as much as the fire strategy does: replacement cladding, render or windows can need consent, and we specify to satisfy both at once.

Getting to Canary Wharf

Our surveyors cover Canary Wharf and the surrounding Tower Hamlets area. The area is accessible via Canary Wharf (Jubilee line, Elizabeth line, DLR), and our team carries out regular inspections across Canary Wharf E14.

Where the statutory height thresholds sit

A FRAEW is carried out to PAS 9980:2026, the dated code of practice for fire risk appraisal of external walls, and its conclusions land differently at different heights. At 18 metres or seven storeys (with two or more residential units) a building is higher-risk under section 65 of the Building Safety Act 2022; from 11 metres or five storeys, Part 5 leaseholder protections apply (section 117). The appraisal’s risk rating is what everything downstream — remediation scope, interim measures, funding conversations — is built on.

The local context on this page is drawn from public planning and conservation sources, together with the statutory and professional framework FRAEW / PAS 9980 appraisals sit in: Tower Hamlets conservation areas; Tower Hamlets Article 4 directions; Building Safety Act 2022; Fire Safety Act 2021; Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. These sources support the area context; they do not replace inspection of a named building or a fire-risk assessment, and the exact building-safety and planning position should be confirmed for the address.

Canary Wharf sits inside our London coverage, so an instruction here is quoted on the same published scale as the rest of London rather than on a separate local rate.

Typical fees: FRAEW / PAS 9980 instructions in London typically start from £5,000 plus VAT; we confirm a fixed fee after scoping the building and the brief.

The FRAEW & PAS 9980 External Wall Fire Risk Appraisal London page sets out the full scope behind that figure.