Call over sprinklers in all new homes is rejected
The Government yesterday rejected calls for further research into the feasibility of all new homes being fitted with sprinklers or similar automatic fire control systems.
The call was made by Labour’s Lord Harrison in his backbench Building Regulations (Review) Bill in the Lords.
But Earl Attlee, for ministers, replied that it was more as an issue for the building and insurance industries and warned that compulsory fitting of sprinklers to all new homes could cost about 300m a year.