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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)...
How to work out the VAT on building work and materials if you're a contractor, subcontractor or developer.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
Measures to ensure fire safety matters are incorporated at the planning stage for schemes involving a relevant high-rise residential building.
The information principal accountable persons must submit when applying for a building assessment certificate from the Building Safety Regulator.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
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...
Duties and responsibilities of the principal accountable person.
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
Residential Property Tribunal Decision of Judge Mark Jones and Mr S Mason FRICS on 23 April 2024
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document S, which sets standards for installation of electric vehicle charge points or cable routes.
The programme was established to make sure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe – and feel safe – now, and in the future.
Guidance about meeting the building regulations, given by decisions on disputes made by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Outline of the design approach taken to various aspects of the baseline designs
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Guides councils in preparing planning policies on housing for older and disabled people.
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