Hi loucal

You need to read Schedule 1 in the context of the Regulaations as a whole.

Whilst the defintion of "fire and emergency file" in the Regulations is not particularly helpful as it simple cross-references to Schedule 1 if you look at all the other references to this document in the Regulations it gives you a better idea of its intent - something akin to a CDM "health and safety file", hence mostly looking at the full life cycle of the structure and not just the CDM "construction work" that you are to do.

Now it might be that all the documents that you have submitted along with a CDM "construction phase plan" might include a BSR "fire and emergency file" but may be not.

Given that the "fire and emergency file" should include information about how end users are to be protected, if the building is being reclad with occupiers in situ rather than decanted, then your CDM "construction phase plan" SHOULD include relevant parts of the BSR "fire and emergency file" but probably not all of that document.

Remember that this is about the application for building control approval and NOT gettting the Client to say that your CPP is OK in terms of work starting on site.