A private school in Sydney's west has been accused of putting the lives of students at risk with a "defective" second-storey school building that did not have sprinklers, a fire hydrant or emergency lighting and posed a "very significant risk of fire".
The school is accused of leaving its former premises at 291 Haldon Street, Lakemba, "dirty and littered" with peeling paint and broken glass when it moved to a new school site at the end of 2010. It is further accused of failing to have development approval when it built a computer room at its former site.
Mr Elliott said Building C posed "a very significant risk of fire" and put "the lives of the children at the school at risk".Building certifier City Plan Services Pty Ltd and its managing director Brendan John Bennett are also being sued in the case after they allegedly certified Building C as being fit for occupation in April 2007.
The landlord alleges the external walls of the building were made from non-fire-rated timber stud instead of cavity brick, which was supposed to be used; did not have fire hydrants or hose reels; did not have emergency lighting; did not have wall-wetting sprinklers; and had other irregularities including inconsistent treads and risers on the stairs.
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