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Use this service to apply to register a high-rise residential building in England with the Building Safety Regulator.
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)...
Find out what information the Building Safety Regulator holds in its register of high-rise residential buildings, and how you can access that information.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Responsibilities of accountable persons for a building’s safety case.
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) regulates the architects’ profession in the UK to ensure that good standards of conduct and practice are consistently maintained. ARB is a public corporation of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities .
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
Find out more about the role of technical specialist architect.
Part of a series collecting key facts and figures on new homes and regeneration.
How to work out the VAT on building work and materials if you're a contractor, subcontractor or developer.
The programme was established to make sure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe – and feel safe – now, and in the future.
'Manual for streets' explains how to design, construct, adopt and maintain new and existing residential streets.
Measures to ensure fire safety matters are incorporated at the planning stage for schemes involving a relevant high-rise residential building.
VAT rates for building work, including plumbers, plasterers and carpenters - new houses and flats, work for disabled people, energy saving, grant-funded heating, conversions and renovations, properties that are not homes
Find out what information accountable persons must provide to different individuals and organisations and when to transfer it.
The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 only apply to “relevant buildings.” This guidance explains what is meant by that term.
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