Protection consultation responses

The PRU has been involved in responding to a number of key Government and industry consultations which will form the basis of an improved building safety system. These include responses from 2021-2023. 

• Health and Safety Executive – Consultation on HSE’s information document that highlights the necessary competency for the new principal designer and principal contractor roles – NFCC Response (16 June 2023)
• Planning Directorate – Infrastructure Levy Technical Consultation – Joint Response of the Emergency Services (8 June 2023)
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – Consultation on the introduction of a use class for short term lets and associated permitted development rights – NFCC Response (7 June 2023)
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport – Consultation on registration scheme for short-term lets in England – NFCC Response (7 June 2023)
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – Consultation on Alternative Cost Recovery for Remediation – NFCC Response (31 March 2023)
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Consultation proposal on options to recommend sprinklers in care homes, remove national classifications from Approved Document B, and recommend a maximum height threshold for the use of one staircase in blocks of flats. (17th March 2023)
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – Consultation for changes to the building control and profession process for approved inspectors – NFCC Response (14 March 2023)
• Welsh Government – Consultation on Fire suppression systems in care homes for children – NFCC Response (7 March 2023)
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – Consultation on Building Safety Directors – NFCC Response (20 January 2023)
• Health and Safety Executive – Building Safety Regulator Operational Standards Rules Consultation – NFCC Response (25 October 2022)
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – Consultation on implementing the new building control regime for higher-risk buildings and wider changes to the building regulations for all buildings – NFCC Response (12 October 2022)
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – Consultation on the new safety regime for occupied higher-risk buildings – NFCC Response (12 October 2022)
• Government Equalities Office – Open Consultation – Improving disabled people’s access to let residential premises: reasonable adjustments to common parts, a new duty –  NFCC Response (18 August 2022)
• Home Office Emergency Evacuation Information Sharing (EEIS) Consultation – NFCC Response (9 August 2022)
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – Higher Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Consultation – NFCC Response (21 July 2022)
• PAS 8672 -Built Environment – Framework for competence of individual Principal Contractors and Designated Individuals working under Organizational Principal Contractors – Specification  (10 November 2021)
• Safety Case Principles consultation (22 October 2021)
• PAS 8673 – Built environment – Framework for competence of individual Building Safety Managers and nominated individual Building Safety Managers – Specification (September 2021)
• Building Bulletin 100: Fire Safety Design in Schools – NFCC Response (17 August)
• Building Safety Levy, Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (26 October)
• Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) Consultation (19 July)
• Charter for Social Housing Residents – Social Housing White Paper Response (21 March)
• Welsh Government Safer Buildings in Wales Consultation – NFCC Response (13 April)
• MHCLG National Planning Policy Framework and National Model Design Code: Consultation proposals – NFCC Response (March 26th)
• MHCLG: Supporting housing delivery and public service infrastructure: NFCC response  (February 1st)
• RICS Draft Guidance Note – Valuation of properties in multi-storey, multi-occupancy residential buildings with cladding, 1st edition – NFCC Response (January 25)
• MHCLG Architects Act Consultation NFCC Response (January 22)
• MHCLG Domestic Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Consultation – Proposals to Extend Regulations (January 11th)
• MHCLG Raising accessibility standards for new homes – NFCC Response (December 1st)
• Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Consultation The Future of the Planning System in England – NFCC Response (October 29th)
• MHCLG Planning for the Future Consultation – NFCC Response (October 29th)
• Draft Scottish Advice Note: Determining the fire risk posed by external wall systems in existing multi-storey residential buildings – NFCC Response (October 24th)
• Fire and Rescue Authorities becoming statutory consultees in the development management process – NFCC Response (October 21st)
• Home Office Fire Safety Order – NFCC Response (October 12th)
• Pre White Paper: Welsh Government Building Safety Position Statement (September 30th)
• Select Committee Call for Evidence on the Draft Building Safety Bill (September 14th)
• Call for Evidence: Progress in remediating dangerous cladding: Public Accounts Committee (July 2nd)
• Review of the ban on the use of combustible materials in and on the external walls of buildings: MHCLG (May 22nd)
• Call for Evidence: Cladding: progress on remediation: HCLG Select Committee (May 18th)
• Guide to the Design of Balconies and Terraces, Draft for Public Consultation (March 3rd)
• Fire Safety: Risk Prioritisation in Existing Buildings – A Call for Evidence (February 26th)
• The Future Homes Standard: 2019 Consultation on changes to Part L (conservation of fuel and power) and Part F (ventilation) of the Building Regulations for new dwellings (February 7th)

Our protection focused responses to consultations pre-2020 can be found on NFCC’s Consultation responses page.