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Make Fire Safety a defined Material Consideration for Planning Applications
Closed
420 signatures
What the petition asks
Currently, Planning Authorities do not have to consider fire safety of a building and its occupants when assessing a planning application.
Fire Safety is assessed by Building Regulations. This leads to conflict; planning may be granted for a building that does not comply with Fire Regulations.
Fire Safety is assessed by Building Regulations. This leads to conflict; planning may be granted for a building that does not comply with Fire Regulations.
In practice, this may lead to the building work that contravenes either a planning consent or fire safety regulations - neither of which should be acceptable. Currently, the only remedy is enforcement. This requires awareness of the misdemeanour and costly action to remedy. In contrast flood-risk is a Material Consideration, yet fire claims many more lives than flooding.
Had the fire safety of the works to Grenfell Tower been considered at the Planning stage the deaths may have been avoided.
Had the fire safety of the works to Grenfell Tower been considered at the Planning stage the deaths may have been avoided.
Timeline
| 19 Mar 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 19 Sep 2020 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
420
Status
Closed
Opened
19 Mar 2020
Closed
19 Sep 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.