Health and safety and fire risk consultants in the West Midlands: the businesses taking on premises this week
Whoever takes on non-domestic premises has to assess the fire risk, an employer with five or more staff has to write its policy and risk assessments down, and a change of owner is a change of the person responsible. We tell you which premises are at that point, and which job each points to.
Last week in the West Midlands
In the daily files from 5 to 11 November 2026, businesses in the West Midlands that took on premises, changed hands or were about to, graded A or B for a health and safety desk: 27. 15 of them were opening or about to, 12 had just moved in or were under a new owner, and 19 came with a landline to ring. Across Great Britain the same week: 178. 67% of the region's rows could not have been flagged by a service working from Companies House alone.
Counted from the daily files dated 5 to 11 November 2026, as read on 11 November 2026. Each event is counted once, on the first file it reached. The same count for every region, in the same words.
Why timing matters
The fire risk assessment is the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 in England and Wales, recorded in full whatever the number of staff since 1 October 2023, and Part 3 of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 in Scotland. The written policy is section 2(3) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, with the exception for fewer than five employees in the 1975 regulations made under it; the recorded risk assessments are regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. Food registrations, premises licences, the care and nursery registers, operator licences and the councils' rates lists each show a premises at the moment that work gets commissioned. We read them every day, grade each row for a health and safety desk and tag it with the job it points to: a fire risk assessment before a unit opens, a food safety plan for a kitchen, workplace transport for a yard, CDM duties for a construction contract won, or policies and training for a care site or a school.
What we tell you
The moments that matter for you:
| Coming | A business is about to open: a licence applied for, a unit being fitted out, a new company set up to trade from the address. |
| Just moved in | A business has started at premises that had nobody in them: a new ratepayer, a new food business, a newly registered care home, nursery, surgery or garage. |
| Changed hands | A new operator at premises that were already trading: a pub, shop or care home under new ownership, often keeping the old name on the door. |
How to use it
Work the kitchens, workshops, yards, care sites and licensed premises first, then the units coming out of fit-out. The job column says what you'd offer before you ring; the reason column says why now.
The councils in the West Midlands
The file is cut to the region, or to any of these councils if you'd rather: Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Cannock Chase, Coventry, Dudley, East Staffordshire, Herefordshire, County of, Lichfield, Malvern Hills, Newcastle-under-Lyme, North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Redditch, Rugby, Sandwell, Shropshire, Solihull, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke-on-Trent, Stratford-on-Avon, Tamworth, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Warwick, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Wychavon, Wyre Forest. Each link is the council's own page of new companies, free, every Monday.
A free fortnight of the file for the West Midlands
The first file comes within one working day, cut to the West Midlands, then every weekday for two weeks. No card, nothing to cancel. After that it's £250 a month for the region, monthly, and you can stop at any month's end.
One row a week, free
Not ready for a fortnight of files? Have one of the week's rows for your region each Friday, the one we'd ring first, free, for as long as you like. The full file has every row, every weekday.
Built for selling within the rules: businesses not people, every row with its source and date, and nothing your team can't explain to someone who asks. How it's done.
Questions
Do you tell us how many staff they have?
Only what the last filed accounts say, which is a year or more behind, and a new business has filed none. The trade, the premises and what happened there are what set the job, and every row carries those.
How is this different from buying a list?
A list is a snapshot of businesses that exist. This is what changed yesterday: who moved in, who took over, who left. A bought list can't tell you any of that, and it's out of date the day it arrives.
How do you find them?
From public registers, read every day and kept, so we can see when something changes at an address. The sources are on the sources page. How we put them together is ours, and we don't publish it.
Is there personal data in it?
Almost none. The file is about businesses and premises: no director names, no home addresses. Where a business publishes only a named address on its own website, the daily file carries it in a marked column, as the privacy notice says; a sample never does. Where a phone number or a mailbox is public, we say where it came from.
Can we email or ring them?
Limited companies and LLPs can be emailed without prior consent under PECR, if you say who you are and give a way to opt out. Phone numbers are yours to screen against the TPS and CTPS before you ring.
Do we have to ring them?
No. Each daily file can come with the emails already written, one for each business with a mailbox of its own, in your words, for you to send from your own mailbox. We draft the wording from your website, you change anything you like, and it's part of the price.
What does it cost?
£250 a month for a region, or £1,000 a month for the whole of Great Britain, monthly, and you can stop at any month's end. The first two weeks are free, so your team can try it on real rows before paying anything.
Is the file exclusive?
Not the whole file, but you can have a head start. First look sends your trade's new rows for your region to you each morning, a working day before anyone else in your trade gets them, for one firm per trade and region: £375 a month for a region, or £1,500 a month for Great Britain, on the same terms.
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