Housebuilders' fury over new rules that mean they must put bars across first floor windows to stop increasingly tall Britons from falling out

"Housebuilders are furious over new rules that require new homes to have steel bars built across their first floor windows to prevent increasingly tall Britons from falling out.

Developers have argued that the new building safety regulations have left them with the limited options of either make pricey and arduous planning changes, or installing the bars."


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Seems like it's meant to keep people inside .. I hope this doesn't come to America because I won't be doing this.