Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if his Department will lower the threshold of the combustible materials ban to 11 metres following the recent fire at Samuel Garside House.
The Department has started a technical review of the Building Regulations statutory guidance on fire safety (Approved Document B). A call for evidence to inform the review has recently been completed. Views and evidence were invited on the current thresholds and trigger heights in the guidance. The Department is currently reviewing the responses to the call for evidence and will set out its response in due course.