I might be wrong but is it necessary to ask all these students to find alternative accommodation. I don’t know exactly what the fire safety deficiencies are but is there not an automatic fire alarm system and comprehensive emergency plan in place? It seems to be a bit of a knee jerk reaction by management and I always like to think there are alternatives available. Could new fire safety measures like increasing the detection not be introduced over a short time period rather than cause such a disturbance. Asking students to all find new places to lives will be logistically very difficult and stressful and I wonder whether there are more common sense approaches that should be considered.
