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  • Managing building control approval applications for higher-risk buildings

    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.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Find a 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.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Contact the Building Safety Regulator

    Anyone in England can use this service to contact the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Registered building inspectors

    Use this guidance to understand the role, legal responsibilities and how to register as a building inspector in England and Wales.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Preparing a safety case report

    Responsibilities of the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building’s safety case report.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Safety in high-rise residential buildings: accountable persons 

    Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Register as a building inspector

    Use this service to apply to become a registered building inspector in England and Wales with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Preparing a resident engagement strategy

    Duties of the principal accountable person and accountable persons of a high-rise residential building to prepare and update a resident engagement strategy.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Safety case for a high-rise residential building

    Responsibilities of accountable persons for a building’s safety case.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Operating a mandatory occurrence reporting system

    How principal designers, principal contractors and principal accountable persons must set up and maintain a system to report building safety incidents and risks.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Submit a mandatory occurrence notice and report

    Use this service to submit a mandatory occurrence notice and report for higher-risk buildings, including high-rise residential buildings, to the BSR.  

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Operating a complaints system for building safety in a high-rise residential building

    Duties and responsibilities of the principal accountable person.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Complain about a building safety risk in a high-rise building

    Find out how to complain about a building safety risk, or the performance of an accountable person or principal accountable person, in a high-rise residential building.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Design Code Library

    A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.

    • From: Office for Place
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  • Community Right to Bid: non-statutory advice note for local authorities

    This non-statutory advice note provides a legislative overview of Part 5 Chapter 3 of the Localism Act and the Assets of Community Value Regulations…

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Office for Place – Our vision and principles

    The Office for Place will help shift how the planning system is used, as a shield against the worst to its future role as a champion of the best.

    • From: Office for Place
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  • 10 criteria for effective design coding

    A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.

    • From: Office for Place
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  • Community benefits and engagement guidance for onshore wind

    Guidance on community benefits and engagement for onshore wind farm developers, communities living in the locality of a wind farm and local authorities.

    • From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
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  • Community-led regeneration: toolkit

    Regeneration is an essential element of the Government’s approach to building a strong and balanced economy. This document explains how the…

    • From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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  • The Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission

    The Commission was convened to advise government on how to promote and increase the use of high-quality design for new build homes and neighbourhoods.

    • From: Office for Place
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