Require personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPs)

Recommendation 60 remains open as one element of Residential PEEPs policy needs to be enacted through primary legislation – this is the aspect of the person-centred fire risk assessment which requires responsible persons to consider fire safety risks and implement mitigating measures within a resident’s flat. This will be mandated through primary legislation when Parliamentary time allows.

The Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025 were laid on 4 July 2025. This mandates Residential Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (Residential PEEPs) in high-rise and higher-risk residential buildings, with the one further element to be delivered through primary legislation expected in 2026.

The government committed funding for 2025/26 to begin this work by helping social housing providers to deliver Residential PEEPs for their renters. We are currently in the process of securing funding following the Spending Review that will cover up to 2029/30. The funding recognises that social housing providers are under pressure to deliver a range of reforms at present as well as to improve and replenish their stock.

We published statutory guidance to Responsible Persons to support their implementation of Residential PEEPs on 2 December 2025.

This recommendation will be complete when primary legislation is passed which will extend mandatory person-centred fire risk assessments into residents’ flat to add the final element of the Residential PEEPs policy.

Status: In Progress

The Home Office will bring forward proposals in Autumn 2024 to improve the fire safety and evacuation of disabled/vulnerable residents in high-rise and higher-risk residential buildings in England in response to this recommendation. These proposals will be called ‘Residential PEEPs’.

Through them, residents with disabilities and impairments will be entitled to a person-centred risk assessment to identify appropriate equipment and adjustments to aid their fire safety / evacuation, as well as a ‘Residential PEEPs statement’ that records what vulnerable residents should do in the event of a fire.

The government has committed funding next year (2025-26) to begin this important work by supporting social housing providers to deliver Residential PEEPs for their renters. Future years’ funding will be confirmed at the upcoming Spending Review.

The Government has run two public consultations on supporting the evacuation and fire safety of vulnerable residents (which includes disabled residents) in light of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendations concerning Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs).

The first consultation found substantial difficulties in mandating PEEPs in high-rise residential buildings, focussed on practicality, proportionality and safety.

The Government consulted upon a different package of measures during Summer 2022 – the Emergency Evacuation Information Sharing Plus consultation – and is now considering the responses to this, alongside the responses to its accompanying calls for evidence, and will publish a response in due course.

Status: In progress

The Government consulted on proposals to address these recommendations in the 2020 Fire Safety consultation, the 2021 PEEPs consultation, and the 2022 Emergency Evacuation Information Sharing Plus (EEIS+) consultation which ran from 18 May to 21 August 2022. The Government is in the process of producing its formal response to the EEIS+ consultation which will lay out, in more detail, how these two recommendations will be addressed. Details of the draft proposals, as consulted upon, can be found here .

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).

7.3 It was originally intended that the two Inquiry recommendations on Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) be implemented at the same time as the other legislative recommendations. A consultation on PEEPs ran from 8 June to 19 July 2021 seeking further views on this issue. The Government’s response to this consultation was published on the 18 May 2022 and a further consultation on the Government’s proposals to take forward the PEEPs recommendations has been launched. Due to the close relationship between the Inquiry recommendation on evacuation plans and the Government’s position on PEEPs, this consultation will also look again at the issue of evacuation plans. Once this consultation has ended, the Government will publish its response and next steps; and pass any necessary legislation, in due course.

The Home Office will introduce a Fire Safety Bill in early 2020 which will put beyond doubt that owners or managers of multi-occupied residential buildings need to fully consider and mitigate the risks of external wall systems and front doors to individual flats.

The Fire Safety Bill will create a firm foundation to enable the Government to lay regulations to deliver the legislative recommendations from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report, including in relation to personal evacuation plans for residents whose ability to evacuate may be compromised. A consultation on the Grenfell Tower Phase 1 legislative recommendations is planned for spring 2020.