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David Amess: Sustainable energy agenda poses ‘major challenge’ to fire safety risks post-Grenfell

By 2021-06-28T07:30:00

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The sustainable energy agenda sets out a “major challenge to fire safety” risk post-Grenfell because “it leads to lighter, less robust constructions in the interest of high levels of insulation”, according to David Amess, conservative party MP and chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Fire Safety and Rescue.

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