After the recent BBC investigation about London care homes not meeting fire safety regulations there has been an important court ruling that will hopefully change the behavior of care home owners and increase the safety of the residents. The issue regarding resident bedroom doors, which must be fitted with self closing fire doors, and the [...]
In 1992, the Building Regulations were amended requiring every new build to allow for mains-wired, interconnected smoke alarms to be installed. With many alarms installed under this Regulation still in use and potentially approaching their twentieth year, it was necessary to research a recommendation as to when mains powered smoke alarms should be replaced. Current [...]
The owner of a London hotel, the Averard in Bayswater, has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to fire safety breaches. After an inspection, that took place in April 2009, failings in the fire detection and alarm systems were evident, as well as a lack of external [...]
On November 25 2009 New Look, a well known high street retailer, was fined £400,000 plus costs due to a number of breaches of the fire safety legislation as a result of a serious fire at its Oxford Street store, London in August 2007. New Look were found guilty of having an inadequate fire risk [...]
A landlord has been sent to prison in the first custodial sentence to be given in London under the new fire safety regulations. A London Landlord was sentenced to four months imprisonment and his company, was fined £21,000 following conviction for serious breaches of the regulatory reform order (RRO). The prosecution followed a fatal fire [...]
