The review of fire safety rules undertaken in the wake of Grenfell tower has proposed the creation of “less prescriptive” regulation and cutting out private sector Approved Inspectors from performing building control on high rise buildings.

The final report by Dame Judith Hackitt, published this morning, recommends the creation of a new organisation, made up of Local Authority Building Control (LABC), Fire and Rescue Authorities (FRAs) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), to oversee the approval and regulation of buildings higher than 10-storeys.

As widely expected, Hackitt has declined to proscribe the use of flammable materials in cladding systems, despite widespread calls for her to do so. Her report instead says it is for the construction industry to “respond to the [building regulations] by shaping detailed guidance to support the delivery of those outcomes.”