Fire safety training in Leek.
On-site. North Staffordshire specialists.

Leek is the principal market town of the Staffordshire Moorlands — a compact town with a strong silk and textile manufacturing heritage, a significant stock of Victorian mill buildings, and a character that is distinctly different from the Potteries towns to the south-west. The town's mill buildings — some still in commercial use, others converted to residential or mixed-use — present specific fire risk assessment and door inspection challenges characteristic of Victorian industrial construction: irregular compartmentation, non-standard staircase arrangements, and building fabric that does not meet modern fire separation standards.

The arson fire at the Big Mill in Leek — a landmark building that has been the subject of ongoing concern about fire safety at vacant and underused heritage industrial buildings — illustrates the specific risk that older mill buildings carry when unoccupied or in transitional use. We have written about the lessons from incidents like this in our fire safety guidance. Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service covers Leek and the Staffordshire Moorlands. We cover the area from Chester, approximately 45 miles to the north.