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UPWARDS EXTENSIONS PERMITTED BUT WHAT ARE THE FIRE IMPLICATIONS?

By Iain Cox, Chair of the Business Sprinkler Alliance

The new permitted development right (PDR) allowing additional storeys on homes and residential buildings may well be one panacea to the...

Building Safety Bill: An Opportunity To Make All Buildings Resilient to Fire

Input to the pre-legislative scrutiny for the draft Building Safety Bill by the Select Committee closes on the 14th September. The draft bill is a long-awaited and welcome reform that focuses on...

Holt Supermarket Fire: Why Are ‘Critical’ Buildings Not Protected?

The wider impact of a fire which destroyed the only supermarket in a Norfolk town has far reaching ramifications for the community, especially at such a critical time when businesses such as...

Three major fires in 24 hours: at a time of Covid-19 are we forgetting how...

With three large building fires in 24 hours, the impact and devastation caused by fire continues to remind us just how vulnerable to fire so many buildings are with the consequences...