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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...
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
The leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 only apply to “relevant buildings.” This guidance explains what is meant by that term.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
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)...
What clients, principal designers and principal contractors must do to follow the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
From 28 June 2022, the leaseholder protections on building safety costs in England have come into effect.
How networks and individuals can support the country's emergency planning, response and recovery, and keep systems and services running.
This page brings together information leaseholders and other residents should be aware of on fire safety, and remediation of historic building safety defects – including who is responsible for paying for remediation works.
Find out what information accountable persons must provide to different individuals and organisations and when to transfer it.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022, the Building Act 1984 (as amended by the Building Safety Act 2022) and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions...
Find out what information the Building Safety Regulator holds in its register of high-rise residential buildings, and how you can access that information.
This information explains what the Cladding Safety Scheme (CSS) is, how to apply, and the additional help in place to support leaseholders and residents affected by unsafe external wall systems.
Information relating to the Building Safety Act, which was granted Royal Assent on 28 April 2022.
Links to secondary legislation.
Check whether you'll have to pay to replace cladding or to fix other safety problems with your building.
The programme was established to make sure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe – and feel safe – now, and in the future.
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