24 May 2023

School fire sprinklers not necessary

From Morning Report, 8:20 am on 24 May 2023

A Wairarapa school has won government backing to not put sprinklers in a dormitory where 80 teenage boys sleep.

Rathkeale College argued the local council's requirement to fit sprinklers would cost so much it would jeopardise its whole project to upgrade the alarms and other fire protections.

Trinity Schools Trust Board chief executive Cath Archer spoke to Guyon Espiner this morning.