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An open letter from the Housing Minister and the Director of Building Safety regarding charges associated with managing safety in high rise buildings.

• Updated: 17 April 2024

This circular draws attention to the publication of Approved Document B (fire safety) 2024 amendments.

• Updated: 29 March 2024

• Approved Document B 2024 amendments: circular letter

  To: The Chief Executive Unitary, Metropolitan, District and London Borough…

This circular letter draws attention to the building control process for higher-risk buildings and wider changes to building regulations.

• Updated: 28 March 2024

• Circular letter: changes to the building control process

  To: (England only) Local Government Chief Executives and Heads of Building…

• Additional Q&A: Changes to the building control process for higher-risk buildings and wider changes to procedural building regulations applying to buildings in England

  To: (England only) Local Government Chief Executives and Heads of Building…

Minister Lee Rowley met council chiefs to discuss action against building owners who are failing to fix medium and high-rise buildings with safety issues

• Updated: 20 February 2024

Government pledge promises to stop a practice that is driving up buildings insurance premiums for leaseholders in buildings with identified fire safety issues

• Updated: 30 October 2023

Government confirms measures to reverse the rise of gender-neutral toilets as part of wider efforts to protect single sex spaces.

• Updated: 13 August 2023

Cladding Safety Scheme opens to give thousands more buildings access to government funding to fix dangerous cladding for the first time.

• Updated: 26 July 2023

This circular and accompanying letter draw attention to the publication of the Building etc. (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023.

• Updated: 12 May 2023

Housing Secretary warns cladding shareholders of “severe consequences” for manufacturers if they do not bring forward comprehensive remediation package.

• Updated: 20 April 2023

This circular letter informs all building control bodies of the publication of the Building Safety Regulator’s Operational Standards Rules.

• Updated: 3 April 2023

New rules are being proposed to mandate second staircases in new residential buildings over 30m.

• Updated: 23 December 2022

More than £8 million allocated to dedicated council enforcement teams to pursue building owners dragging their heels

• Updated: 9 December 2022

This circular letter informs of corrections to Approved Document B and circular 02/2022.

• Updated: 30 November 2022

Developers will be expected to pay levy on new residential buildings meaning they, rather than leaseholders, will pay to fix unsafe buildings.

• Updated: 22 November 2022

The Health and Safety Executive is working to establish the Building Safety Regulator in line with the Building Safety Act.

• Updated: 14 November 2022

This circular and accompanying letter draw attention to the publication of The Building etc. (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 and Approved Document R volumes 1 and 2.

• Updated: 4 October 2022

This circular draws attention to the publication of Approved Document J 2022 amendments.

• Updated: 30 September 2022

Levelling Up Secretary Simon Clarke sets out his commitment to building safety and protecting leaseholders

• Updated: 22 September 2022

This circular letter draws attention to concerns that design proposals for very tall residential buildings with single stairs being designed using Approved Documents.

• Updated: 23 August 2022

More leaseholders in high-rise homes will be spared unfair bills for building safety as £4.5 billion Building Safety Fund opens for new applications.

• Updated: 28 July 2022