Despite disasters such as the Lakanal House fire in 2009, the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, the widespread condemnation of poor practices that have followed each of these, or the promises that such horrors will never again be allowed to happen, fires in housing continue to occur, and continue to prove deadly.
Housing, Management and Maintenance’s research of housing professionals has shown that there are still huge risks present in the industry, and this research study aims to explore what landlords and housing professionals believe makes a product ‘better’, how they believe fire risk can be best reduced, what brings the greatest risk of fire to their properties, why they believe these risks remain, and the fire safety products they are most trusting of.