Option four

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 continue to respond to night-time automatic fire alarms. We will not respond to automatic fire alarms during the daytime unless there is a sign of fire. This option changes daytime weekend attendance.

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:

• 2,110 fewer alerts to incidents, which is 41 every week
• 344 hours saved for wholetime firefighters, to carry out prevention activity and other duties to keep our communities safe
• £104,477 saving after investment into on-call firefighters and communications campaigns to reduce false alarms.