High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

(asked on 11th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the number of high-risk residential buildings.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 22nd October 2018

The Final Report of the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, which was published in May 2018, identifies all multi-occupancy high-rise residential properties which are 10 stories high or more as being ‘higher-risk residential buildings’. It states that there are between 2,000 and 3,000 of these buildings currently in existence. This is calculated according to information provided by Land Registry and Ordnance Survey. An explanation of the data sources can be found in Appendix C of the Review:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-building-regulations-and-fire-safety-final-report

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