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Guidance to help school building owners and maintenance staff identify building systems and prioritise maintenance and repair of their school estate.
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 leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 only apply to “relevant buildings.” This guidance explains what is meant by that term.
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 to work out the VAT on building work and materials if you're a contractor, subcontractor or developer.
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.
Practice note 1: 2023 from section 4 part 3 of the Rating Manual - the contractors basis age and obsolescence allowances.
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.
The programme was established to make sure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe – and feel safe – now, and in the future.
Check whether you'll have to pay to replace cladding or to fix other safety problems with your building.
Measures to ensure fire safety matters are incorporated at the planning stage for schemes involving a relevant high-rise residential building.
This guidance provides leaseholders with a plain English explanation of the implications of the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022.
The information principal accountable persons must submit when applying for a building assessment certificate from the Building Safety Regulator.
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.
This guidance summarises the types of defects to which the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 apply.
Information relating to the Building Safety Act, which was granted Royal Assent on 28 April 2022.
Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
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