Description
Book SynopsisFire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched information regarding the subject of fire safety and the associated responsibilities, obligations and rights.
V. Charles Ward addresses in practical legal terms the responsibilities on building-owners to ensure that buildings are fire-safe for people who are living, working, or visiting those buildings and explains what protections are available to leaseholders faced with the costs of making their buildings fire-safe. The book begins with a summary of the lessons which have come from the Grenfell Inquiry, before providing a practical overview of current fire-safety legislation relating to residential and commercial buildings.
This legislative overview will include not only the 2005 Fir
Table of Contents
1. The Problem 2. The Grenfell Inquiry 3. The Fire Safety Order (FSO) 4. PAS 9980:2022 Fire Risk Appraisal of External Wall Construction and Cladding of Existing Blocks of Flats – Code of Practice 5. Fire-Safety and Leasehold Frameworks 6. The Defective Premises Act 1972 (DPA) 7. Fire Safety and The Building Regulations 2010 8. Building Warranties and Fire Safety 9. Government Assistance to Remove Defective Cladding 10. Buying a Flat in a High-Rise Block 11. The EWS1 Form 12. Private Landlord Responsibilities Relating to Fire-Safety
