Thanks for the great responses, I did not want to make the question too specific as I wanted to see if this was a widely adopted approach or a forgotten area of preparedness.

We have the smoke alarms covered, the latest addition is one at the top of the stairs between our room and our child's room with an integrated light that activates with the alarm. Also got a CO detector too.

I have got a fire blanket but no extinguishers, in fact I have just taken a couple of old ones to the recycling centre as they were CTC and Halon, both rather nasty in confined spaces. The lack of new extinguishers is probably down to the UK fire and rescue saying that in the event of a fire you should 'Get Out, Stay Out and Get the Fire Brigade Out' as a lot of people apparently realise too late that they are not putting the fire out and are breathing in a lot of smoke! Having said that in a disaster scenario I guess you cannot depend on the Fire service arriving.

Friendly with good neighbors is an interesting one and not always easily achieved.

LED (appropriate name for this), as you say the auto-on lights seem to have a limited life due to the cheap rechargeables they include. We have got a JML/Johnlite at the foot of the stairs with an integrated night light that is on when the power is on, but the torch no longer has much run time when the power goes out or the fuses trip. I have just checked and it has a pair of AA NiCd, I was considering swapping for NiMH but it marked as replace with use Ni-Cd 600mAh or 700mHa only. It uses a regular torch bulb and I recently spotted an much smaller Energizer LED auto-on torch designed to fix to the wall, which I expect would have much better runtime.

We have only got one motion sensor light, over the porch/front drive. I do not like the motion sensing halogen floods as the blind you when they first come on and create very dark shadows.

I have not come across braided stainless steel burst-resistant water hoses for clothes washers but that sounds worthy of investigation as the previous occupants washing machine leaked so much water that the floor had to be replaced.

Reducing household chemicals and paints etc is next on my list, doubly important with a child in the house. Thankfully our knifes already live in in draw, knife blocks are asking for trouble IMHO. Have just checked by FAK though and most of its contents replacing, my DW has just agreed we should by a more comprehensive one anyway.

We recently replaced our Laundry Iron, the last one fell apart, with one that shuts off it is left face down for 20 or 30 seconds or if it is left upright without moving for 8 minutes, nice safety feature and will probably save us a fortune in power as we have both left in on all day on a number of occasions.