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Developers planning high-rise residential buildings will soon have to demonstrate consideration of fire safety across their entire land.
Documents released by the government today reveal that the first stage of its planning reforms related to fire safety will be introduced in August.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) will amend existing laws to require applicants to produce a statement showing they have considered fire-safety issues relating to areas on their land outside the building, including layout and access.
It said the statement should include as much information as is relevant regarding the external layout of sites, including “spaces between buildings”. A draft statement released with the documents shows the department expects this to include external wall systems, balconies, evacuation plans and emergency vehicle access.
Tearing down a fortress in Newark to make way for a new beginning | Jordan on Business
Updated Apr 12, 7:02 AM;
Posted Apr 11, 3:19 PM
John Saraceno, CEO, Onyx Equities, Gateway Center, Newark, NJ. 3/2/2021Steve Hockstein | For NJ Advance Media
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Newark has struggled to overcome decades of bad urban planning decisions that destroyed whole neighborhoods and wiped out commercial activity. Fixing those bad choices has been a focal point over the years to rejuvenate New Jersey’s largest city.
None of those bad ideas was worse than the construction of the fortress-style downtown Gateway Center office towers. Started a few years after the 1967 Newark riots, the four buildings are connected to Newark Penn Station and one another by skywalks designed to keep office workers off the streets below. The lack of street-level entrances discouraged outsiders from entry and parking decks walled off access to the waterfront.