Public Inquiry Recommendations

P1-1 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require external wall information for fire services

The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to provide their local fire and rescue service with information about the design of its external walls …

P1-5 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require building floor plans for fire services

The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to provide their local fire and rescue services with up-to-date plans in both paper and electronic form …

P1-6 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require premises information boxes

The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to ensure that the building contains a premises information box, the contents of which must include a …

P1-8 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require monthly firefighter lift inspections

The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to carry out regular inspections of any lifts that are designed to be used by firefighters in …

P1-9 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require monthly lift control mechanism tests

The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to carry out regular tests of the mechanism which allows firefighters to take control of the lifts …

P1-28 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

National guidelines for high-rise evacuations

The government develop national guidelines for carrying out partial or total evacuations of high-rise residential buildings, such guidelines to include the means of protecting fire exit routes and procedures for …

P1-30 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require evacuation plans for high-rise buildings

The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to draw up and keep under regular review evacuation plans, copies of which are to be provided …

P1-31 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require evacuation alarm systems in high-rise buildings

All high-rise residential buildings (both those already in existence and those built in the future) be equipped with facilities for use by the fire and rescue services enabling them to …

P1-32 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPs)

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 …

P1-33 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require PEEP information in premises information box

The owner and manager of every high-rise residential building be required by law to include up-to-date information about persons with reduced mobility and their associated PEEPs in the premises information …

P1-35 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require clear floor number markings in high-rise buildings

In all high-rise buildings floor numbers be clearly marked on each landing within the stairways and in a prominent place in all lobbies in such a way as to be …

P1-36 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require understandable fire safety instructions

The owner and manager of every residential building containing separate dwellings (whether or not it is a high-rise building) be required by law to provide fire safety instructions (including instructions …

P1-38 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require quarterly fire door checks

The owner and manager of every residential building containing separate dwellings (whether or not they are high-rise buildings) be required by law to carry out checks at not less than …

P1-39 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2019)

Require compliant flat entrance doors where unsafe cladding exists

All those who have responsibility in whatever capacity for the condition of the entrance doors to individual flats in high-rise residential buildings, whose external walls incorporate unsafe cladding, be required …

P2-1 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)

Establish single construction industry regulator

We therefore recommend that the government draw together under a single regulator all the functions relating to the construction industry to which we have referred. (113.6)

P2-13 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)

Make construction regulator responsible for product conformity certificates

We therefore recommend that the construction regulator should be responsible for assessing the conformity of construction products with the requirements of legislation, statutory guidance and industry standards and issuing certificates …

P2-14 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)

Require test results disclosure and transparency for construction products

a) that copies of all test results supporting any certificate issued by the construction regulator be included in the certificate; b) that manufacturers be required to provide the construction regulator …

P2-25 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)

Maintain public record of inquiry recommendations

We recommend that it be made a legal requirement for the government to maintain a publicly accessible record of recommendations made by select committees, coroners and public inquiries together with …

P2-28 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)

Require gas valve accessibility inspections every three years

We therefore recommend that every gas transporter be required by law to check the accessibility of each such valve on its system at least once every three years and to …

P2-29 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)

Establish independent College of Fire and Rescue

We welcome the government’s ambition to create an independent College of Fire and Rescue expressed in the white paper Reforming our Fire and Rescue Service and we therefore recommend that …

P2-30 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)

College to have permanent staff and training facilities

Although it is for the government to decide how the college should be constituted, we recommend that it should have a permanent staff of sufficient size to manage its operations …

P2-43 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)

Require voluntary sector partnerships in contingency planning

Regulation 23 of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Contingency Planning) Regulations 2005 requires a Category 1 responder to have regard when making its plans to the activities of relevant voluntary …

P2-48 Accepted in part

Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2024)

Verify training quality of Category 1 responders

We also recommend that a mechanism be introduced for independently verifying the frequency and quality of training provided by local authorities and other Category 1 responders. (113.71)