Fire Safety Consultation Published

The Government is seeking views on their legislative fire safety proposals that will aim to reform building and fire safety to prevent incidents like the tragic Grenfell Tower fire from happening again.

The Fire Safety Consultation is part of the Government's reform package to improve building and fire safety in all regulated premises where people live, stay or work. It is published alongside the Draft Building Safety Bill which takes forward reforms to the building and fire safety system as part of the reform package.

It sets out proposals to:

• strengthen the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order SI 2005/1541 and improve compliance;
• implement the recommendations from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase One Report that requires a change in law to place new requirements on building owners or managers of multi-occupied residential buildings, mostly high rise buildings;
• strengthen the regulatory framework for how building control bodies consult with Fire and Rescue authorities and the handover of fire safety information.

How to respond

The Consultation is open to the public and is targeted at groups and/or individuals impacted or representing the interests of those affected by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order SI 2005/1541.

This includes:   

• "Responsible Persons", being the owners, occupiers, or other persons in control of relevant premises;
• fire safety professionals;
• Enforcing Authorities; and
• "Relevant Persons", being any persons lawfully on, or in the immediate vicinity of, any premises who would be at risk from fire on those premises.

Responses to the Consultation can be submitted online here.

The Consultation is open for responses from 20 July 2020 to 12 October 2020.

For more information see:

• Fire Safety Consultation;
• our In Focus: Draft Building Safety Bill published;
• the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order SI 2005/1541.