Disabled tenant & PEEP – Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan – Help!

Hello, Can you help? A PEEP – a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan – has been requested by the management company for a tenanted flat. I own a 2 bed flat in a small 2000 block.

Ours in on the first floor, there are just 3 floors in total, brick built and no cladding.

The management company have recently undertaken a fire risk assessment and ‘noticed that our tenant is a wheelchair user’ while completing the assessment. Our tenant has been in residence for 5+ years, is a wheelchair user due to being a double amputee. She is happy in the flat and uses the lift for access.

We have received a demand from the management company stating that she needs a PEEP and that I should provide it.

I have Googled PEEP as it is new to me – the information I found is mainly related to workplaces and says that it needs to be undertaken by a ‘responsible person’. While I am responsible, I have no technical fire or disability knowledge, so have gone back to the management company suggesting that they undertake the PEEP. I have also spoken with the tenant, thinking that she might have access to a service providing this, but apparently not.

I use an ARLA letting agent, so I asked them to see if they could help – mainly for advice as to where the responsibility for undertaking the PEEP lies – but ARLA were not able to assist.

Can anyone tell me where does the responsibility of undertaking the PEEP lie? Is it with the subject of the PEEP (the tenant in this case), the landlord, or the owners of the building via the management company?

I assume there is legislation defining who is responsible for providing the plan, then who is responsible for implementing and paying for that plan – can someone tell me what that legislation is please?

Thank you,

Sue