City chief in homes law plea.TOUGH new housing regulations are needed to prevent tragedies such as the fire that killed six people in a London tower block, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Birmingham's head of housing. John Lines (Con Bartley Green Bartley Green is a residential area to the south west of Birmingham city centre, England. The ward is part of the Edgbaston constituency which has been under Labour rule for almost ten years. ) has joined a campaign urging the Government to impose rules on builders and landlords -- using a petition on the official Downing Street Downing Street, Westminster, London, England. On the street are the British Foreign Office and, at No. 10, the residence of the first lord of the Treasury, who is usually (although not necessarily) the prime minister of Great Britain. website. And he urged Birmingham residents to back the campaign by signing up. Following the blaze in south-east London in July which killed three adults and three children, the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority discovered that buildings in the area failed to comply with the 2006 Regulatory Reform Regulatory Reform concerns improvements to the quality of government regulation. At the international level, the "OECD Regulatory Reform Programme is aimed at helping governments improve regulatory quality -- that is, reforming regulations that raise unnecessary obstacles to Fire Safety Order. Birmingham has 229 high rise tower blocks and around 4,500 low-rise blocks, which have all have been fire checked. The petition can be *found at http://petitions. number10.gov.uk/safeash ouses/ |
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