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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)...
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...
Check if you can claim a VAT refund using the DIY housebuilders scheme, if you’re building a new house.
How to work out the VAT on building work and materials if you're a contractor, subcontractor or developer.
Helping public health practitioners conducting evaluations – developing a logic model to represent how your intervention works.
Documents relating to the independent review led by Sir Oliver Letwin.
Find out the classes of building inspectors, the competencies needed and how to register as a building inspector in England and Wales.
If you're preparing land for homes, we can loan you up to £250 million to cover infrastructure and enabling costs.
Information to support leaseholders and residents living in buildings in the Building Safety Fund (BSF).
The government introduced a number of measures through the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 to incentivise the prompt build-out of housing sites. This update outlines recent progress in the implementation of these measures and next steps.
If you're building homes for sale or rent, we can provide finance from £250,000 to cover development costs.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Self-build and custom housebuilding registers.
Join a competent person scheme to self-certify certain types of building work instead of getting building regulations approval from a council or private inspector - how to join, current schemes
The sale of land is determined by the potential number of homes that a housing developer or registered provider can build on a given site.
This series brings together documents relating to government construction.
These are the Marine licence requirements for construction activities taking place within the Marine Management Organisation's jurisdiction.
A list of references to test standards that are common across a number of product families which apply to construction products.
This series brings together all documents relating to construction statistics.
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