Gas safety

If you’re a Southwark tenant, we’ll check your gas appliances and flues once a year.

To find out more about gas safety checks, see the Health and Safety Executive website.

You must let us into your home to carry out yearly gas safety checks and necessary repairs.

If you deny us access:

• we’ll apply to the court for a warrant to be able to enter the property
• we’ll make sure your home is left secure and will leave a letter to say why we had to force our way in
• we may need to change the locks (we'll explain how to collect your new keys)

If you're a homeowner and have an individual boiler in your property, it’s vital that it’s regularly serviced. This is a legal requirement if you rent out your property. 

As an owner of an ex-Southwark council property, you can use our contractors to do a gas safety service for your boiler. Go to our gas servicing page for more information.