Duration: 20 minutes
Platform: Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Lee Russell
The Government has responded to a consultation on Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs), with the goal of improving fire safety for residents who may need support to evacuate. The response was published on 2 December 2024.
Regulations are expected to be published later in 2025 and will join a raft of new secondary legislation addressing the fire safety of residential buildings.
A Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan (PEEP) is a tailored escape plan for individuals who might need extra support or assistance to evacuate a building during an emergency, such as a fire. The likelihood is that landlords and building owners will need to consider these plans in the management of their housing stock in the future.
Why Boards need to be thinking about it:
- Increased responsibility – Landlords will need to arrange the development, implementation, and review of PEEPs.
- Enforcement and accountability – The expected regulatory regime will amount to new legal obligations on landlords and building owners – this results in increase legal, reputational and regulatory risk.
- Resourcing and budgetary concerns – Boards will need to assess and plan the likely costs of implementation of new regulations.
In this session we will cover:
- Provide a brief explanation – This will explain what PEEPs are the consultation /policy change process that has got us here.
- Explain the changes – This will be a detailed review of the response and what the expected regulations will bring later in 2025.
- Discuss why Boards need to be thinking about this – This will consider the likely impact of the changes to help plan for them.
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