Proposed legislation making it a legal requirement for smoke detection in the form of smoke alarms are to be fitted in rented properties has been introduced in Parliament by Torbay MP Adrian Sanders.
The Bill given the name “The Fire Safety (Protection of Tenants)” was given its formal first reading in the Commons yesterday, following the weekly Prime Minister's Questions.
Five people a week die from a domestic house fire with no fire detection, whether it be a fire alarm system or a smoke alarm, and the Lib Dem MP has branded it unacceptable.
It follows the deaths of two youngsters from Torquay Stephanie Wojak and Ben McAuliffe in the Ellacombe blaze in October.
There was no fire alarm in the house in Ellacombe Church Road where the children lived with Gill and Mike Wojak and their son Ricky.
25 per cent of the trust’s homes do not have a fire alarm, which equates to some 690 properties.
It had planned to install fire detection in the remaining properties as part of a major home improvement programme, which it brought forward immediately.
Mr Sanders wants to ensure that there are working fire alarm safety devices in all rented properties at the start of a tenancy.
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