Jack Rowe
22 Apr 2015 · Coroner Claire Balysz · Wiltshire & Swindon
The coroner's concerns
1. unfenced private swimming pools
“received evidence that in Australia and France it is compulsory to fence private swimming pools with child resistant barriers”
Responses
2015-0154-Response-by-Department-for-Communities-and-Local-Government.pdf ↗· Communities and Local Government
Stated action
“We take the view that building regulations would not be the best way to ensure that swimming pools are safe, as they apply only where building work takes place. The definition of a building for the purposes of the regulations does not currently cover an outdoor pool. Furthermore, as the regulations only cover new work, they could not be applied retrospectively to existing pools. Also, any requirement would be very difficult to enforce as it would not be possible to prevent fences from being”