Asbestos Removal 2024 - Lot 1 - Residential

Flagship Group would like to appoint suppliers to deliver its entire asbestos removal strategy, this will include works to seal, repair, or remove asbestos containing material identified in asbestos surveys.

​The current housing stock consists of almost 33,000 properties that are owned and managed by Flagship Group, with approximately 21,000 that were constructed pre-2000. These are spread over a wide geographical area in East Anglia (see Appendix D), and approximately 62,000 repairs are carried out each year by Flagship Group’s directly employed operatives and contractors, Flagship Services.

​To comply with The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, and specifically Regulation 4, Flagship Group has a duty to manage the asbestos contained in its non-domestic properties. Further to this, under the Defective Premises Act 1972, as a Landlord, Flagship Group has the duty to ensure that tenants and other people are safe from personal injury or diseases related to a defect in the state of both domestic and non-domestic premises. The Management of Health & Safety at Work Act 1999 requires an employer to make suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to health and safety of employees to which they are exposed while they are at work.

​Based on the Flagship Group’s Management Plan and material and priority assessments Flagship Group will decide whether to seal, repair, or remove asbestos containing material identified in asbestos surveys.