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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...
How a product complies with EU safety, health and environmental requirements, and how to place a CE marking on your product.
What clients, principal designers and principal contractors must do to follow the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
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)...
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Guidance on plan-making.
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.
Sets out when planning permission is required and different types of planning permission which may be granted.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
What documents clients need to submit to manage building control approval for higher-risk building work under transitional arrangements.
You may be able to get provisional entitlement to higher category vehicles, and automatic entitlement to lower categories if you pass a higher category driving test.
Find out if your business needs to publish a tax strategy, what it should include and when to publish it.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Guides councils in how to assess their housing needs.
Information and resources for developers about broadband infrastructure and connectivity requirements for new homes.
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