Friendship backs Safe as Houses campaign

With more than 3,600 homes across Birmingham, Warwickshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, leicestershire and Worcestershire, social landlord Friendship Care and Housing (Friendship) has pledged its support to the Inside Housing’s Safe as Houses campaign.

Managing Director, Jonathan Driffill signed the online petition: “Friendship is committed to make communities better and safer places to live and I’m only too pleased to back this worthwhile campaign.”

The campaign was launched at the end of September following the tragic fire in July at the Lakanal House tower block in south London.  The fire broke out on the ninth floor and resulted in six people dying, including three children.

Inside Housing hopes to dramatically reduce the likelihood of future, similar tragedies by getting 100 social landlords to support the introduction of three simple steps to stop preventable deaths from gas and fire:

·      Change building regulations to require carbon monoxide detectors to be hardwired into new home with gas appliances

·      Put up emergency procedure notices in every corridor of a high-rise block

·      Set up a national database of all UK tower blocks

For more information please visit www.insidehousing.co.uk/safeashouses