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The codes and standards that building control bodies must follow.
This series brings together all research documents relating to building regulations.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a proposed new building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Act 1984 (as amended by the Building Safety Act 2022) and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions)...
What documents clients need to submit to manage building control approval for higher-risk building work under transitional arrangements.
This guidance provides leaseholders with a plain English explanation of the implications of the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022.
Measures to ensure fire safety matters are incorporated at the planning stage for schemes involving a relevant high-rise residential building.
Following a review and consultation, the government has introduced regulations to extend the scope of the ban on combustible materials used in and on the external walls of buildings over 18 metres in height.
This page brings together information leaseholders and other residents should be aware of on fire safety, and remediation of historic building safety defects – including who is responsible for paying for remediation works.
The programme was established to make sure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe – and feel safe – now, and in the future.
The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 only apply to “relevant buildings.” This guidance explains what is meant by that term.
Duties, professional codes and standards and registration information.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
Responding to breaches of planning control under the Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023.
From 28 June 2022, the leaseholder protections on building safety costs in England have come into effect.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
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...
This series brings together all documents relating to Building Regulations: impact assessments
All private sector businesses that want to do building control work in England and Wales under the Building Act 1984 (as amended) must apply to register with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
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