CALLING ALL RESIDENTS AND RESIDENTS GROUPS IN ENGLAND. This is the final day to submit responses to the government's consultation on Fire Safety reforms that will affect high-rise and other multi-occupied residential blocks. 1/
The proposed reforms are DEEPLY FLAWED and WILL UNDERMINE the Grenfell Inquiry Recommendations. Residents voices are once again being TOTALLY MARGINALISED in these proposals and there are five major problems that need to be OPPOSED before 11.45pm tonight: 2/
1) The arbitrary exclusion of certain residential buildings by height or type that will put residents lives at risk; 2) Residents’ rights to evacuate in the event of a fire are still being ignored with clear attempts to frustrate recommendations for evacuation plans... 3/
... Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (rPEEPs) for residents that cannot self evacuate, and alarm systems; 3) Recommendations for stringent fire door inspections and other fire prevention / suppression systems are being watered down ... 4/
4) The failure to modernise the definition of ‘common parts’ to ensure hidden fire safety problems can be spotted by the building owner / manager; and 5/
5) the continuing resistance to automatically publishing Fire Risk Assessments and involving residents in the process. To save you having to read through 100 pages of vague and ambiguous phrasing... 6/
... we have prepared a template response that you can directly use / amend and personalise, which can be accessed (in Word and ODT formats) here: filebin.net/swup46fpsb9h75…
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