152 fires in HIgh RIse in last three years is the reason for photoshoot this Sunday 2nd July at Tesco at midday
The video below plugs the photoshoot for tomorrow
The exchanges
below show that Redbridge Council will not be challenging single staircases at
the Goodmayes and any other site that has been passed for planning but not yet
built.
Links below
show recent high rise fire causing evacuations
https://www.thefpa.co.uk/news/tottenham-flat-fire-leads-to-high-rise-evacuation
The link below
reports “In the past three years, there have been 154 fires in London where
more than 10 people evacuated a high-rise block of flats.”
The exchanges
below show that Redbridge Council will not be challenging single staircases at
the Goodmayes and any other site that has been passed for planning but not yet
built.
Fairview on
single staircases in blue text below at their Homebase Horror site in Goodmayes
“The
site was granted permission unanimously by London Borough of Redbridge in April
2022, prior to the GLA mandating for the inclusion of second staircases in
blocks above 30m in February this year. Both the Mayor and the London Fire
Brigade recognise it is not feasible for all schemes which have been approved
prior to this decision to be redesigned and go through a lengthy planning
process to incorporate the changes required for a second staircase.
Our
development at Goodmayes was designed to highest standards of fire safety at
the time of approval and includes sprinklers within both the residential and
commercial units. The scheme and fire safety measures have also been signed off
by both the GLA and Health and Safety Executive.”
This is my question to
Redbridge Council below in red and their reply received on the 28th June
“merely asking if Cllr Holmes question has
triggered a review of the single staircase issue for developments which has
passed planning committee stage but have yet to be built.
Regards
Andy Walker"
Response
No. All live applications (post committee,
but not yet benefiting from a planing permission) are, and will be considered
against the requirements of the development plan and materials considerations
that exist at the point where resolutions to grant are made, and then when
planning permission is to be issued (if that is the case). This requires
an ongoing potential state of review for all applications as a matter of
course. Extant permitted (but unbuilt) developments are bound by the
terms of the planning permissions that they benefit from, but this does not
prohibit any subsequent requirements that may apply through the Building
Regulations, which is the ultimate mechanism through which fire safety
requirements in new development are applied and achieved, to be required.
Unbuilt development at various stages are therefore
automatically subject to various degrees of ongoing review, applied through the
terms of the planning permission / planning system and through the Building
regulations. An individual 'review' at one point in time is therefore not
appropriate.
Yours sincerely
Redbridge Planning Officer
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