Why does LetTrack now track Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Alarms?
The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 (amended 2022) require a smoke alarm on every storey used as living accommodation and a carbon monoxide alarm in every room with a fixed combustion appliance. LetTrack now tracks this as a compliance requirement on every property — it has no expiry date, so it shows as a condition to confirm rather than a certificate that runs out.
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What changed
Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms have always been a legal duty for landlords, but LetTrack had nowhere to record it. That gap was live on the free Compliance Readiness Check, which asked about alarms and scored the answer — so a visitor could be told alarms count toward readiness, then sign up to a product with nowhere to put them. This is now fixed: Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Alarms is a tracked requirement on your Compliance dashboard for every property.
What the law requires
Under the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015, as amended in 2022:
- A smoke alarm on every storey of the property used as living accommodation.
- A carbon monoxide alarm in every room used as living accommodation that contains a fixed combustion appliance (excluding gas cookers).
- Both must be in working order on the first day of a new tenancy.
How it's different from your other requirements
Most compliance items you track in LetTrack — Gas Safety, EICR, EPC — are certificates that expire on a schedule, so LetTrack calculates a renewal due date. Alarms are different: it's an ongoing condition to maintain, not a certificate, so there's no renewal interval or due date attached. The requirement shows as missing until you confirm and record it, and then as compliant — it won't move to "overdue" the way a certificate does, and it won't trigger a deadline reminder email.
Which properties this applies to
The requirement applies to all property types and was added automatically to every existing property when it shipped, alongside every new property you add going forward — there's nothing to turn on.
Where to record it
Go to your Compliance dashboard, find Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Alarms on the relevant property, and upload evidence or mark it as done the same way you would any other requirement.