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The Communities and Local Government have been pressurising Local Authorities to improve fire safety, demanding that councils make sure that their fire risk assessments are up to date. There has been a national crack-down on fire safety following a fire in a Camberwell tower block, Lakanal House, in London last July which killed six people, so imagine the embarrassment when the Crown Premises Inspection Group issued the Communities and Local Government department leading the crackdown with a Crown Enforcement Notice in February this year. The notice was for the department’s Eland House headquarters in Pimlico and it stated that the fire risk assessment for the CLG headquarters was unsuitable and insufficient and there had been a failure to adequately maintain the fire alarm system in the building!
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