Option five

Industrial and commercial (change) – we will not respond to automatic fire alarms at any time of day or night, unless there is a confirmed sign of fire.

Retail and public assembly (change) – we will not respond to automatic fire alarms at any time of day or night, unless there is a confirmed sign of fire.

Residential (change) – we will continue to respond to automatic fire alarms during night-time and weekends. We will not respond to automatic fire alarms during weekday daytimes unless there is a confirmed sign of fire. Houses in multiple occupation and care homes will be exempt from any change. The full exemption list can be seen in the appendix.

Domestic (no change) – we will continue to respond to automatic fire alarms at any time of day or night, with enhanced communications campaigning.

Projected annual savings:

• 2,695 fewer alerts to incidents
• 457 hours saved for wholetime firefighters, to carry out prevention activity and other duties to keep our communities safe
• £128,858 saving after investment into on-call firefighters and communications campaigns to reduce false alarms.