Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,

Following the tragedy at Loafers Lodge in Wellington on 16 May 2023, the then Minister for Building and Construction asked the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) to investigate whether there were similar buildings to Loafers Lodge vulnerable to fire, elsewhere in New Zealand. As a result, the decision was taken to inspect properties meeting a similar profile throughout New Zealand to identify and address any immediate fire safety concerns. The inspections would also be used to inform any future work to strengthen fire safety requirements in boarding houses.

Buildings were chosen based on a similar profile to that of Loafers Lodge with the specific requirement that the buildings needed to:
ȓ be a boarding house; and
ȓ be three storeys or more in height; and
ȓ have no sprinkler system.

The report went on to disclose that 134 issues were found from the limited sample of 40 boarding houses where 3 refused inspection

Please provide the:

A) List of boarding houses inspected

B) Number of each issues correlated to each boarding house inspected

C) List of the three boarding houses that refused inspection

Yours faithfully,

Miss M Quicken