Official admits to Grenfell Inquiry that ambiguous building regs guidance ‘didn’t work’

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Former civil servant in charge of the rules says industry had been expected to work out what fire safety guidance meant

Designers and building control bodies were expected to “work out for themselves” what an ambiguous passage in official fire safety guidance was supposed to mean, the former civil servant in charge of the rules has said.

Brian Martin told Tuesday’s hearing of the Grenfell Inquiry that he thought the approach was “okay” at the time but admitted that “it’s evident it didn’t work”.

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