When it comes to fitting sprinklers or any type of fire prevention system within an existing block of flats this will be a typical reaction. The whole issue of retrospectively installing fire safety systems in buildings that were built under regulations that didn’t require it at the time will always cause financial disputes like this. It’s all very well to suggest and try to implement laws to do this but you do have to have a common sense approach and understand the financial and logistical implications too. In an ideal world every block of flats would have sprinklers but we don’t live in an ideal world and like everything else, someone has to pay.
Victory for leaseholders as council's sprinkler case is struck out
