Fire Safety Plans Township of Langley

Who needs a fire safety plan in the Township of Langley

The Township of Langley Fire Department requires a fire safety plan under Sections 2.8 and 5.6 of the BC Fire Code and the Township’s Fire Prevention Bylaw 6061: every building with a fire alarm system, every assembly, care, treatment, or detention occupancy, every high building, every building with sprinkler or standpipe systems, storage and hazardous-process areas, and every construction and demolition site. The Township is the largest municipality in the Lower Mainland by area, so that list runs from the Willoughby towers and the Walnut Grove stratas to the industrial parks in Gloucester and Port Kells, the wineries and farm buildings of Fort Langley and Aldergrove, and the shopping centres along 200th Street.

Two Township rules stand out. A pre-incident plan must be submitted with the fire safety plan under Section 2.23.01 of Bylaw 6061: a firefighter-focused document showing all the life-safety symbols except extinguishers and pull stations. And the plan must be site and building specific, reflecting the actual property, not a template.

How the Township of Langley Fire Department reviews a plan

Fire Prevention works out of Firehall 6 at 22170 50 Avenue (604-532-7500, fireinfo@tol.ca). The Township’s Fire Safety Plan Guidelines set the format:

• A red 8.5×11 three-ring binder with “FIRE SAFETY PLAN” on the front and spine, the building address in large type, and a cover page with the building’s name, address, and a colour photograph.
• Red tabs with black lettering for every section except Fire Department Information and the Appendix, which are white.
• 11×17 colour drawings in landscape for the site plan and every floor plan, with only site-specific symbols in the legend.
• Photographs taken after construction is complete, free of construction debris, showing the annunciator, alarm panels, fire department connections, sprinkler valves, smoke detectors, lock boxes, and emergency lighting clearly enough that each item is identifiable.
• Fire department information up front: supervisory staff appointments, emergency contacts, building description, alarm operating and reset instructions, monitoring company, in-building radio amplification, electrical disconnect, elevators, fire pump, roof access, hydrants, and primary and secondary access routes.
• The pre-incident plan as its own document, and a fire safety plan lock box on site.

Fire drills are required at least once a year under BC Fire Code 2.8.3.2, with records kept in Part 5 of the plan.

The buildings we plan for in the Township of Langley

The Township is building faster than almost anywhere in BC, and its plans split between brand-new mid-rises and rural buildings that have never had one. Since 2003 we have prepared more than 1,000 fire safety plans across BC; our Township work runs to four types:

• Willoughby and Yorkson along 200th Street, 208th Street, 76th to 84th Avenues, and the 198 to 199A Street blocks: six-storey wood-frame and concrete apartment buildings completed since 2018, with sprinklers throughout, ground-floor retail on the base-building alarm, and a steady stream of construction fire safety plans turning into occupancy plans.
• Walnut Grove, Murrayville, and Brookswood along 88th Avenue, 216th Street, and Fraser Highway: townhouse and low-rise stratas from the 1990s and 2000s, seniors’ residences, schools, and churches.
• Gloucester, Port Kells, and the 64th Avenue industrial corridor: warehouses, manufacturing, millwork shops, and distribution centres along 64th Avenue, 202nd Street, and 27th Avenue, where the hazardous materials inventory and fire department access routes drive the pre-incident plan.
• Fort Langley, Aldergrove, and the farmland: hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, wineries, and agricultural buildings, where the plan has to cover long response distances and on-site water supplies.

Our commercial fire safety plan page covers restaurants, retail, and offices in more depth. Buildings inside the City of Langley boundary (roughly 200th Street to 208th Street between the Nicomekl River and the Langley Bypass) are covered by Langley City Fire Rescue, a separate department.

Keeping a Township plan current

The plan should be reviewed every year and updated whenever the Fire Safety Director, property manager, monitoring or service contractors, tenants, or building systems change, with the update and pre-incident plan going back to Fire Prevention. Township inspectors check for a current plan in the lock box. Under the 2026 BC Fire Safety Act an out-of-date plan is an owner-liability issue, not a paperwork gap. Name and contact updates on plans we have written are free.

How it works with GetFirePlan

1. Firm quote in one business day, one flat fee. Our Surrey office is twenty minutes from Willoughby. See what a fire safety plan costs in BC.
2. Site visit to confirm exits, equipment, shut-offs, and layout, and to take the post-construction photographs the guideline requires.
3. Draft in 5–7 business days: 11×17 colour CAD drawings, the fire safety plan in the Township’s layout, and the pre-incident plan, sent to you for review before submission.
4. Submission to the Township of Langley Fire Department, any revisions they request at no extra charge, and delivery of the accepted plan in the red binder, plus a lock box and wall plaques if you need them.

Approval is guaranteed. If the Township of Langley Fire Department rejects a plan we prepared, we revise it until it is accepted.

Frequently asked questions

What is the pre-incident plan and is it really required?
Yes. Since Bylaw 6061 was updated, the Township requires it with every fire safety plan. It is the firefighters’ version of your drawings, without extinguishers and pull stations. We prepare both together.

Our new Willoughby building just got occupancy. Doesn’t the developer’s plan cover us?
Developer plans are written before anyone moves in and rarely name a real Fire Safety Director or reflect the finished building. The Township wants photographs taken after construction is complete; a plan prepared from drawings will not have them.

Does the Township charge to review a plan?
The Township does not publish a fire safety plan review fee on its website. We confirm any charge with Fire Prevention at submission and include it in your quote.

We have a barn, a winery tasting room, and a farm store. Which needs a plan?
Any building with a fire alarm or sprinkler system, and any assembly space open to the public, which usually means the tasting room and the store. We sort it out during the site visit.

Do you handle construction fire safety plans in the Township?
Yes. Our construction division at constructionfiresafetyplans.ca prepares those. Request a quote and we reply within one business day.