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Government must be ambitious with fire safety plans

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has welcomed the Government’s Building a Safer Future consultation and called for a series of tough new legislative measures as part of its response. The wide-ranging consultation sought views on proposals for a radically new building and fire safety system centred on residents’ safety, following Dame Judith Hackitt’s post-Grenfell independent review of building regulations and fire safety. BESA said it was crucial that the government did not miss this opportunity to “embed a new culture and reshape the whole process for delivering both new build and refurbishment work”. It called for an expansion of the proposed new safety regime beyond residential buildings above 18 metres to all types of buildings considered at high risk of fire. It proposed the mandating of automatic fire suppression to address the growing...

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