This £23 million new build student accommodation is Derbyshire has been issued with a fire service enforcement within two months of opening.
Quite incredible that a building that has cost that much and obviously gone through all of the necessary planning and Building Control approvals can see this happen.
I have said before there is this incredible situation now in the UK where buildings are costing more than ever to build and yet the quality of construction materials has inversely declined.
There would have been many many stages to the development of this building including Fire Service fire safety intervention and approval of plans.
So at what point has it gone wrong? Planning stage? Architect stage? Building Control Stage? Construction stage? Since Occupancy?
This post is not an indictment of this building but an overall stance on the frequency and commonality of this type of issue.
I want solutions to avoid this happening time after time. Let’s hope the new Fire Safety Bill starts that process.
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