Initially due to close 17 August, the deadline for submission of feedback as part of the government consultation on Emergency Evacuation Information Sharing (EEIS) has been extended to Sunday 21 August.
After their rejection of the recommendation from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry to implement Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs), the government responded with the EEIS proposal as an alternative and launched an open consultation period.
Many organisations and individuals have published their responses to this consultation, ranging from being broadly supportive of EEIS, to strongly opposed to their implementation. The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) referred to the proposals as “inadequate” and stated they would be “responding again to emphasise the flaws in the government’s proposals”.
Conversely, the National Federation of ALMOs (NFA), the trade body which represents arms-length management organisations across England, responded favourably to the proposals, saying: “Overall, we agree that the new proposals focusing initially on the buildings with the greatest fire safety risk is the right approach at this time.”
To help those who wish to respond navigate their way through a potentially complicated document, disabled residents’ action group, Claddag, have produced a summary of the consultation, and have called upon residents to ensure their voices are heard.
Their own response has been highly critical, stating that “The Government’s proposal does not give disabled people the right to a plan which actively gets them away from a fire and to a place of safety.”
For the government consultation document, click here.
A direct link to respond to the consultation can be found here.
The Claddag summary can be read here.