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Updated guidance will call for second staircases in all new buildings over 18 metres from 30 September 2026.
Guidance about meeting the building regulations, given by decisions on appeals against refusals by local authorities to relax or dispense with one or more requirements of the regulations.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023. It relates to the definition of higher-risk...
Guidance about meeting the building regulations, given by decisions on disputes made by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
Measures to ensure fire safety matters are incorporated at the planning stage for schemes involving a relevant high-rise residential building.
Find out what information the Building Safety Regulator holds in its register of high-rise residential buildings, and how you can access that information.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
We are seeking views to inform future updates to Approved Document B
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document B including 2020 and 2022 amendments.
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)...
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
How clients can submit and manage a building control application to the Building Safety Regulator for higher-risk building work or building work to an existing higher-risk building.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
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