High Rise Flats: Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish (a) all correspondence that she and her Department have had with (i) developers and (ii) housing associations on the Grenfell Inquiry's recommendation to make it mandatory for owners of high-rise flats to arrange personal emergency evacuation plans for disabled people and (b) the Government's position on that recommendation.
Government answer
The Department has engaged with many stakeholders in relation to recommendation 33.22e in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s Phase 1 report – that the owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to prepare personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPs) for all residents whose ability to self-evacuate may be compromised (such as persons with reduced mobility or cognition).
These stakeholders include Fire & Rescue Services, Local Government, fire safety experts, leaseholders, housing associations, disability groups, residents’ groups, individual residents and members of the public.
Summaries of many these discussions are detailed in the Government’s response to the PEEPs consultation. That document and the ongoing live public consultation, sets out the Government’s position on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendation in question.