Dame Judith Hackitt: building regulations ‘not fit for purpose’

News18.12.1711.30 AM by Nathaniel Barker

Fire safety building regulations are “not fit for purpose”, Dame Judith Hackitt has said in an interim report on her independent review of the system.

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