The Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025 introduces new duties on building owners and managers in high-rise and higher risk residential buildings, to address the fire safety concerns of their most vulnerable tenants.
Through these Regulations, residents with disabilities and impairments will be entitled to:
- a person-centred fire risk assessment to consider their specific individual risks and ability to evacuate in the event of a fire
- the measures that could be reasonably and proportionately introduced to mitigate against their risks
- a written statement recording what they should do in a fire
- information shared with their local Fire and Rescue Service so they know where the most vulnerable residents live and can support their evacuation or rescue in the event of a fire