Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire

Fire Safety & Security Services in Amersham

Fire risk assessments, fire alarm installation, CCTV and automatic gates for inns, shops, care homes and industrial units in Old Amersham, Amersham-on-the-Hill and Chesham Bois.

Amersham is two centres with very different buildings. Old Amersham is a market town with a 1682 Market Hall and timber-framed coaching inns. Amersham-on-the-Hill grew up around the Metropolitan Railway station after 1892, and the industrial units sit further east off Raans Road. Premises in HP6 and HP7 answer to Buckinghamshire Council and Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Engineers travel from our only office at 27-37 Station Road, Hayes, by the M25 to junction 18 and then the A404. IDS Global has traded since 2011 and is a member of the IFSM and the FPA.

Businesses and buildings in Amersham

The 2021 Census counted 15,189 residents in Amersham. Buckinghamshire Council lists four conservation areas there: Old Town, Elm Close, Shardeloes Parkland and Weller Estate. The Old Town conservation area dates from 1969. On the High Street the Kings Arms, two 15th century timber-framed hall houses joined together, was one of the town's three posting houses.

The 1997 Chiltern District Local Plan ranks Amersham-on-the-Hill as the district's second largest shopping centre, with 24,002 square metres of retail floorspace, and calls it wholly twentieth century development. The same plan lists Raans Road among the district's large industrial areas. The Corinium Industrial Estate lies off it, about a mile east of Amersham on the Hill. Care homes include The Croft on Chestnut Lane, with 60 bedrooms and 24-hour dementia care, and Pratt House on Quill Hall Lane. Ofsted records 1,384 pupils at Dr Challoner's Grammar School.

Fire Risk Assessments in Amersham

The Kings Arms was re-fronted in 1936 using its existing timbers and still has a 16th century stable behind it. Roof voids, later partitions and rear yards in a building like this affect how fire and smoke travel.

The 1997 Local Plan describes Old Amersham as a centre with many places to eat and drink that trades well into the evening. We assess kitchens, upper floors and the rear route together, then give you a prioritised action plan covering detection, fire doors, emergency lighting and staff procedures.

Fire risk assessments

Fire Alarm Installation in Amersham

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service still attends alarms at care homes, so a false activation at The Croft or Pratt House sends crews at any hour. The Croft has rooms on two floors, so a panel that shows the floor and wing helps staff go straight to the right place.

We design and install BS 5839 systems for care homes, schools and mixed-use buildings. Dr Challoner's has had major building projects in the 1950s, 1980s and 1990s, and on a campus grown in phases we survey each block so old and new detection work as one system.

Fire alarm installation

CCTV Installation in Amersham

Police.uk records for August 2025 to July 2026 show about 85 shoplifting offences, 74 burglaries and 62 vehicle crimes inside the Amersham neighbourhood boundary, so retail entrances, service yards and staff car parks are worth covering.

We position cameras for tills, doorways, loading areas and car parks, choose lenses for the distances and lighting on site, and set up recording that lets you export clear footage for the police.

CCTV installation

Automatic Gates in Amersham

The Corinium Industrial Estate off Raans Road lies about a mile from the A404 junction, and a 13,255 sq ft unit marketed there in January 2026 came with a secure, self-contained yard reached separately from Raans Road.

We install sliding and swing gates and barriers with intercoms, vehicle readers, photocells and safety edges, and link them to access control or CCTV so deliveries are logged and the yard is closed out of hours.

Automatic gates

Old Amersham: the Market Hall and the 1969 conservation area

The Market Hall was built in 1682 by Sir William Drake as a gift for the townsfolk, and it is Grade II* listed. Its ground floor is an open arcade still used for markets. The museum records that the hall housed the town's fire engine in 1904 and that its turret bell served as the fire bell.

The 1997 Local Plan says a large share of Old Town trade comes from visitors, with specialist shops and many places to eat and drink. For cameras, alarm sounders and cable runs on listed or conservation-area frontages, we agree positions first and suggest you check with Buckinghamshire Council before fixing anything to the outside of a listed building.

Amersham-on-the-Hill: Metroland shops, Elm Close and the plan policies

The Metropolitan Railway extension to Aylesbury opened in 1892, and the Amersham Museum says Amersham-on-the-Hill was a creation of the railway. The Weller Estate, launched in 1930, planned 535 houses and 51 shops on 78 acres around the station, though only part was built. Chiltern Parade on Sycamore Road opened in 1937. Elm Close, 30 concrete-block cottages built in 1920 to 1922, became a conservation area in 1992.

Buckinghamshire Council states that the Chiltern Local Plan of 1997 and the 2011 Core Strategy are still used for planning decisions in this area. The museum credits the green belt and the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with protecting the town from overdevelopment.

Recorded crime in the Amersham neighbourhood

We counted street-level police.uk records inside the Thames Valley Police Amersham neighbourhood boundary for August 2025 to July 2026. Police.uk anonymises locations, so the figures are approximate, and the neighbourhood covers more than the two town centres. It recorded about 1,275 crimes, including 106 other thefts, 96 criminal damage and arson offences, 85 shoplifting offences, 74 burglaries, 62 vehicle crimes and 20 robberies.

Shoplifting and burglary together account for about 160 of them, which supports cameras at shop entrances and intruder alarms on units that are empty overnight.

Woodside Road fire station and the HS2 ventilation shaft

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service's Amersham station is at 60 Woodside Road, HP6 6AN, and first opened in 1953. It is crewed by two Day Crewed watches and On-Call firefighters, and the service lists GE Healthcare, HS2, Amersham hospital and Dr Challoner's Grammar School among the sites in its area.

A July 2022 HS2 release places the Amersham ventilation shaft headhouse in the middle of the A413 and A404 junction and describes a 38 metre shaft with fans that can remove smoke in a fire and give emergency services access to the Chiltern tunnel. In January 2026 HS2 announced that civil engineering works on the 10 mile tunnel were complete.

Services available in Amersham

Frequently asked questions

Will a fire engine attend if our Raans Road unit alarm sounds?

Not on the alarm alone. Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service made its policy permanent after a six-month pilot that began in July 2024. At medium and low risk non-domestic premises, crews go only if a 999 call or visible signs confirm a fire, at any hour. Name someone to check the panel, and consider monitoring for units empty overnight.

We run a care home in Amersham. Will crews still attend every alarm?

The service exempts premises with sleeping occupants, including care homes, so alarms there are still attended. That makes accurate detection important, because each false activation mobilises crews. Zoned panels and a maintained logbook help staff identify the cause quickly.

Can you fit CCTV or an alarm sounder on a listed building in Old Amersham?

Yes, with care. The Market Hall is Grade II* listed and the Old Town has been a conservation area since 1969. We survey first, favour discreet housings and internal cable routes, and recommend you check with Buckinghamshire Council before anything is fixed to a listed facade.

Do you cover Chesham Bois and HP7 as well as Amersham-on-the-Hill?

Yes. We cover HP6 and HP7, including Old Amersham, Amersham-on-the-Hill and Chesham Bois. Buckinghamshire Council lists Chesham Bois as a conservation area separate from Amersham's four, so we check heritage constraints before agreeing where equipment goes on an older frontage.