Fire Safety in Extra Care Housing in the UK

[Username]

Referred to as a "Technical Brief" this document has been released by the Department of Health via the Housing Learning and Improvement Network (Housing LIN).

http://www.dhcarenetworks.org.uk/IndependentLivingChoices/Housing/Topics/browse/Design/Planning/?parent=6595&child=8012

Quite an interesting read, pulling all the relevant bits'n'pieces together, but does seem to dwell on timber framed construction for rather longer than one would expect.

[jokar]

Thank you.

[jokar]

Had a quick peruse and am interested as to what a Part 6 LD3 grade 3 is as noted in Section 5.0.4, perhaps a slip of the pen.

[colin todd]

What a very strange and quite poor document.

[CivvyFSO]

Seems to be far too many pages of 'guff'

('guff' is a technical term for the type of information that often makes up 95% of a risk assessment in an attempt to ensure the RP that they have got their moneys worth.)

[wee brian]

27 pages of a book about extra care that doesnt say anything useful about extra care. Perhaps they should get an award.

[Midland Retty]

The Gordon Brown award for "Moo Poo"

[Clevelandfire 3]

What a very strange and quite poor document.

Look cars n the table Colin we know you are good at this fire safety malarki so tell us why this document is poor use your influence to educate otherwise you just sound like a tutting know it all

[AnthonyB]

It's a pity that in the statistics and case studies that make up a lot of the document (a lot of the rest being a list of where to go to get some real info) that they couldn't find any relating to extra care housing, prompting a lot of 'This has nothing to do with the sector you are reading about but...' type Intro's to the examples.

And if I manufactured closed or managed protocol fire alarm systems I'd be consulting lawyers about the statement that doesn't need too much reading between the lines to get "Don't buy nasty closed/managed protocol equipment"

[kurnal]

Which document are we discussing? I downloaded the link but all I get is RTP1 Good Practice note 8?

[wee brian]

That's odd, it appears to have gone!

[colin todd]

Brian, Dont forget, Google remembers all.  It does seem to have been taken off the website, but you can still get it simply from the cached version in google.

Clevey, I think that everyone else says all you need know, unless you care to spend several hours doing a detailed critique yourself.

[wee brian]

It's back again - spot the difference......

[Clevelandfire 3]

do we get a prize?

[Username]

The original section 1.0.2 Example: Lakanal House has been deleted!

Also other references to Lakanal have been removed, wonder if this was for legal reasons or because it was  "neither a modern building nor an Extra Care Housing development"?