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Coalition Calls on Government to Take Bolder Action to Make New Residential Buildings Safer
RIBA and seven built environment bodies, fire safety organisations and disability rights groups have signed a joint letter to Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Rt Hon Michael Gove MP. The united call urges the Government to reduce the height threshold for more than one staircase in new residential buildings to 18 metres (approximately six storeys), from the government’s current proposed 30 metres (approximately ten storeys).