How it all started
I can’t picture the person who doesn’t like holidays, there must be a few, but it’s not us. Over the years we’ve added to our family with kids and a dog and we now holiday frequently in the UK. With both of us having backgrounds in housing enforcement, it’s hard for us not to assess properties for health and safety whilst we’re staying in them, and we’ve come to realise that there’s no advice out there for short term let property owners. This is where we come in, we’re able to offer our unique experience as a service, to highlight the importance of health and safety in short term lets, and recognise landlords that act in accordance with guidance and legislation.
Vision
Our vision is that everyone who goes on holiday has a safe stay full of happy memories.
All short term let properties comply with relevant safety standards, and landlords of compliant properties are recognised.
Mission
Our mission is to create a recognised accreditation scheme to reward compliant landlords of short term lets. We want to develop guidance to support landlords of short term lets better understand health and safety.
Values
We value professionalism, compliance, health and safety, transparency, honesty, learning, value for money and consistency.
Meet the Safe Stays team
Rose Woods BSc(Hons) MCIEH
Rose qualified with a degree in Environmental Health in 2005, and has since gained nearly 20 years of experience working in private sector housing and anti-social behaviour. Rose’s accolades include a prosecution for non-compliance with a Prohibition Order under the Housing Act 2004 where an unscrupulous landlord refused to make safe the only access and egress to the property. Aside from prosecution, Rose has helped numerous landlords proactively improve their properties to meet current safety standards, by way of inspecting, reports, floorplans, advice and recommendations. Rose enjoys problem solving and is naturally supportive and probably too chatty.
Outside of work, like many others, Rose enjoys family time, holidays, dog walks, reading, and is always helping out in the local community, from PTAs, village groups through to scouting.
Peter Gibson BSc(Hons) PG(Dip) AMIOA MCIEH CEnvH
Peter graduated in 2005 with a BSc(Hons) in Environmental Health and has worked in both the public and private sector, specialising in Private Sector Housing and Environmental Protection. He is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Acoustics (IOA).
Peter has a wide depth of knowledge and keeps a keen interest of current legislation and legal cases. He has vast experience of undertaking both reactive and proactive visits such as Family Let Dwellings, HMO’s, Immigration Inspections, Landlord Accreditation schemes, ensuring properties are suitable for Ukrainian resident displaced in the UK as well as Caravan Site Licensing in addition to presenting at landlord forums.
Peter has provided media releases for BBC radio, BBC television news, local & national newspapers as well as provided evidence to MPs for debate in the Houses of Parliament. He has twice authored articles for Environmental Health News (EHN) based on civil proceedings between Landlord and tenants as well as Fire Safety Risk Assessments and has also written for the Guardian Newspaper on the effects of austerity on Environmental Health in the public sector.
When not working Peter enjoys the gym, getting out on the bike, walking the dog (who he claims he never wanted), and cooking.