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The Building Safety Fund (BSF) provides funding to fix life safety fire risks associated with cladding in buildings over 18 metres high. This guide explains the process.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
How to apply for a completion or partial completion certificate after contractors have completed the building work for higher-risk building work or building work to an existing 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 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023. It relates to the definition of higher-risk...
Check if you can claim a VAT refund using the DIY housebuilders scheme, if you’re building a new house.
How to work out the VAT on building work and materials if you're a contractor, subcontractor or developer.
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)...
Use this service to apply to register a high-rise residential building in England with the Building Safety Regulator.
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.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
Duties and responsibilities of the principal accountable person.
Information to support leaseholders and residents living in buildings in the Building Safety Fund (BSF).
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
This factsheet provides a summary of key information about the contract for residents living in buildings where developers have pledged to remediate historic fire safety defects.
BDUK has awarded broadband provider Wessex Internet a Project Gigabit contract to provide around 10,500 premises across the New Forest and surrounding areas with access to gigabit-capable broadband.
Find out the classes of building inspectors, the competencies needed and how to register as a building inspector in England and Wales.
Changes to Section 30(A) of the Building Act 1984.
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