In the wake of the Lakanal House tragedy and other fires, it became apparent that there was a lack of specific guidance for purpose-built blocks of flats. Here Colin Todd, whose firm was commissioned to draft new guidance published last month, outlines some of its key provisions.

A new guidance document for purpose-built flats will address the “confusion” managing agents and landlords face in enforcing fire safety precautions, consultants CS Todd and Associates say.

Enforcing fire safety guidance is a “contradiction in terms” industry expert Colin Todd told visitors at Firex North this week.

In the dream, I am a fly-on-the-wall of the office of the Secretary of State at the Communities and Local Government Affairs department...

I was amused to find that officers’ witness statements referred to the defendant as “an elderly and dishevelled man I now know to be Mr X.”

I usually work on the principle that an enforcement notice from Scotland or certain shire counties of England warrants a gill of the amber nectar, while a bottle only lasts for four enforcement notices from the enforcing authority of a capital city...

I just had to show people my first blog. My daughter read it avidly….until line 4, when she reached her boredom threshold, suggesting that, instead, I show it to her boyfriend...

In beginning my first ever blog (and, when the editor reads the copy, probably my last), I am reminded of a fire consultant, an ex fire officer...