Fire Safety in Medium-Rise Blocks: What Building Surveyors Must Now Report Under the EWS and Building Safety Regime

Over 700,000 leaseholders in England are estimated to live in buildings with potentially unsafe cladding — and a significant proportion of those properties sit in the 11–18 metre height range that regulators and lenders now scrutinise most closely. Yet for years, this "middle tier" of residential blocks fell into a regulatory grey zone: too tall […]