Northern Ireland · County Down, County Armagh · fire protection
Smoke vents in Newry
Newry (County Down, County Armagh, Northern Ireland) has a published usual-resident population of 27,913 in 2021. Source: Northern Ireland settlement population (published Ireland list, NI jurisdiction). That figure is residents, not a count of blocks with smoke vents. Fire safety law and building regulations in Northern Ireland are not the English Approved Document B set. We quote to the strategy and the rules that apply there, and we say so on the visit record. Classification on that source: Settlement.
Paperwork is a visit record
You get a note of which vents moved, battery condition and what failed. That is not a BAFE certificate, a fire-risk assessment or building-control completion. Failed devices stay failed on the sheet.
Manual control at the landing
Residents and the fire service use the manual point, often at stair level, not the panel in a locked riser. We operate that switch as well as the panel output. A vent that only moves from the engineer’s laptop is not commissioned.
Automatic opening vents are life-safety smoke control, so this sits with fire protection and is quoted across the UK. Population figures are the published resident counts named above. They are not a survey of vents in Newry.
