”If you had the choice would you choose to live at the top of a 30m block with just one staircase?”

This question, posed by Suzannah Nicol, chief executive of Build UK to Building, perhaps cuts to the heart of the reasoning behind the latest building safety announcement by the government.

Do people still - despite all the new legislation and focus on building safety- understanbaly feel unsafe in tower blocks six years on from Grenfell, unless there are multiple means of escape?

As millions of us were winding down for Christmas on 23 December, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) pushed out a short consultation paper  proposing a number of new amendments to approved document B of the building safety regulations.