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The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 only apply to “relevant buildings.” This guidance explains what is meant by that term.
Divisional letter dated 1 October 2010 about the Approved Document: basements for dwellings.
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.
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 W Hansen (chairman) and Mr J Francis dated 29 September 2022.
Southern Region, Regional Surveyor W H Gater FRICS (Chairman), Regional Judge M W Tildesley OBE, and Mr D Ashby FRICS on 23 March 2022
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document F, which sets standards for ventilation in new dwellings.
Information relating to the Building Safety Act, which was granted Royal Assent on 28 April 2022.
Information on the Building Safety Fund (BSF).
Call for evidence and examples of good practice in the effective use of the current planning framework in the context of managing basement developments.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
Guidance about meeting the building regulations, given by decisions on appeals against refusals by local authorities to relax or dispense with one or more requirements of the regulations.
Residential Property Tribnual Decision of Judge Percival and Mr Lewicki on 26 March 2021
Southern Region, Bruce Edgington and Roger Wilkey FRICS on 30 June 2020
Residential Property Tribunal Decision of Judge Aileen Hamilton-Farey and Mrs. Louise Crane on Date 30 March 2022
Measures to ensure fire safety matters are incorporated at the planning stage for schemes involving a relevant high-rise residential building.
Find out if you can get VAT relief if you're having building work done in your home related to your disability.
Southern Region, Mr R Athow FRICS MIRPM (Chairman), Mr C Davies FRICS ACIArb and Mr S Hodges FRICS on 6 January 2021
Use this service to apply to register a high-rise residential building in England with the Building Safety Regulator.
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