Option three

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 (no change) – we will continue to respond to automatic fire alarms at any time of day or night.

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:

• 1,470 fewer alerts to incidents, which is 28 every week
• 257 hours saved for wholetime firefighters, to carry out prevention activity and other duties to keep our communities safe
• £66,535 saving after investment into on-call firefighters and communications campaigns to reduce false alarms.