FIRE SAFETY: Residential PEEPs
for Vulnerable People
The latest updates on the Government’s progress on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s Phase 2 recommendations and updates on Phase 1 recommendations includes a requirement for building managers and owners of residential buildings to engage with Vulnerable People in the drafting of Residential Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) .
It states: ‘Residential Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) will mandate that the building owner or manager:
- engages with their vulnerable residents
- considers how to improve their fire safety and evacuation
- enables all residents to understand what they should do in the event of a fire
- gives fire and rescue services information in case they need to support their evacuation
- mandates building-level evacuation plans for these buildings’
The Government has laid Residential PEEPs secondary legislation, which applies to all high-rise residential buildings, and medium-rise residential buildings with simultaneous evacuation strategies in place.
The Government has committed funding for 2025/26 to begin this important work by supporting social housing providers to deliver Residential PEEPs for their renters. Future years’ funding will be confirmed at the upcoming Spending Review.
Guidance has been produced to accompany the regulations, following input from stakeholders, including disability groups.
The Government is also developing a toolkit to support Responsible Persons in their implementation of Residential PEEPs.
For more info on progress reports for the Construction Industry, Fire and Rescue Services and Response and Recovery :
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/grenfell-tower-inquiry-government-progress-report