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Guidance on the criteria for being a higher-risk building

This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022, the Building Act 1984 (as amended by the Building Safety Act 2022) and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023.

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Published: 19 October 2023

The guidance relates to the definition of higher-risk building during:

1. The design and construction of new higher-risk buildings

2. Building work in existing higher-risk buildings

3. The occupation phase of the higher-risk regime

Documents

• Criteria for determining whether a new building that is being designed and constructed is a "higher-risk building"
  • 18 October 2024
  • Guidance
• Criteria for determining whether an existing building is a higher-risk building during building work
  • 18 October 2024
  • Guidance
• Criteria for determining whether a building is a higher-risk building during the occupation phase of the new higher-risk regime
  • 18 October 2024
  • Guidance

Published 19 October 2023