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FOI / 3894 / 2018 - Cedar wood cladding

Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I can confirm that Essex County Fire & Rescue Service does hold this information.,

Please see below the answer to your request.

Initial Request:

I am submitting this email in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act. My submission relates to cedar wood cladding on residential properties in the private sector. I would be grateful if would please respond to the following questions:

1. Please can you provide copies of any risk assessments that you have carried out in relation to cedar wood cladding presenting a fire risk on residential buildings.

2. Please can you provide copies of any investigations, analysis or testing you have been instructed to undertake in relation to whether cedar wood cladding poses a fire risk.

3. Please can you provide copies of any instructions, advice or guidance that have been issued to local fire and rescue services in relation to cedar wood cladding as a potential fire risk.

4. Please can you provide the number of recorded fires in your authority?s area where cedar wood cladding was a major contributor in the fire starting and spreading.

5. What evidence do you have to consider cedar wood cladding to present a fire risk?Final Response:

1. Please can you provide copies of any risk assessments that you have carried out in relation to cedar wood cladding presenting a fire risk on residential buildings.

We have not carried out any risk assessments in relation to cedar wood cladding.

2. Please can you provide copies of any investigations, analysis or testing you have been instructed to undertake in relation to whether cedar wood cladding poses a fire risk.

We have not been asked to carry out any investigations, analysis or testing in relation to whether cedar wood cladding poses a fire risk.

3. Please can you provide copies of any instructions, advice or guidance that have been issued to local fire and rescue services in relation to cedar wood cladding as a potential fire risk.

We do not hold any instructions, advice or guidance in relation to cedar wood cladding as a potential fire risk.

4. Please can you provide the number of recorded fires in your authoritys area where cedar wood cladding was a major contributor in the fire starting and spreading.

There are not any records in the database that relate specifically to cedar wood cladding. However, I have attached a spreadsheet where wood cladding has been recorded in Section 8 of our Incident Recording System (IRS).

5. What evidence do you have to consider cedar wood cladding to present a fire risk?

We do not hold any evidence to consider cedar wood cladding to present a fire risk.

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