Last week I was interviewed by both the BBC and ITV about Gabe’s Law, my Multi-Storey Car Parks (Safety) Bill. The Bill would raise the height of barriers on the top floor of multi-storey car parks and having every multi-storey car park manned 24/7. It would, as Gabe’s father Johnny told ITV, mean a change to “wholly inadequate” building regulations. These changes would be retroactive, so current existing barrier heights would have to be raised.

We need a change in the law to make car park operators take safety on top of their buildings seriously. Doing the absolute minimum, with barriers at just 1.1 metres, leaves a needless risk of accidental falls or opportunity to jump and that can’t be right. People have fallen from multi-storey car parks at least 17 times in the last two years alone.

Unfortunately the Government objected to the Bill a second time on Friday.

You can see both news reports above and below.