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I have always found it extremely worrying that we can build very high blocks of flats with a single stair as long as the travel distance is restricted and a ventilated lobby is provided on each floor. A ventilated lobby is pointless if its doors are wedged open. Yet this is completely in line with current Building Regulations Standards. The Building Regulations are therefore very much to blame for this terrible tragedy and I am sure many architects have mentioned this to Building Control officers before, I certainly have. It doesn't help that they are also very convoluted and conflicting, with many double negative sentences, just to make them even more impossible to understand, especially regarding the fire parts.