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  • Operating a mandatory occurrence reporting system

    How principal designers, principal contractors and principal accountable persons must set up and maintain a system to report building safety incidents and risks.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Keeping information about a higher-risk building: the golden thread

    The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.

    • From: Department for Work and Pensions and 1 others
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  • Developer remediation contract

    Government wrote to developers on 30 January 2023 asking them to sign a contract committing them to remediate unsafe buildings which they developed.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • ​​Responsible Actors Scheme

    The Responsible Actors Scheme was launched in July 2023. Eligible developers who do not join the Scheme and comply with its conditions will have planning and building control prohibitions imposed on them.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Complain about a building safety risk in a high-rise building

    Find out how to complain about a building safety risk, or the performance of an accountable person or principal accountable person, in a high-rise residential building.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Find a high-rise residential building

    Find out what information the Building Safety Regulator holds in its register of high-rise residential buildings, and how you can access that information.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Submit a mandatory occurrence notice and report

    Use this service to submit a mandatory occurrence notice and report for higher-risk buildings, including high-rise residential buildings, to the BSR.  

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Contact the Building Safety Regulator

    Anyone in England can use this service to contact the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Register your business as a building control approver

    All private sector businesses that want to do building control work in England and Wales under the Building Act 1984 (as amended) must apply to register with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Developer remediation contract: resident factsheet

    This factsheet provides a summary of key information about the contract for residents living in buildings where developers have pledged to remediate historic fire safety defects.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Non-determination applications for higher-risk buildings procedures: applying to the Secretary of State

    Changes to Section 30(A) of the Building Act 1984.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Building Safety Fund: process guide for residents

    The Building Safety Fund (BSF) provides funding to fix life safety fire risks associated with cladding in buildings over 18 metres high. This guide explains the process.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Leaseholder protections on building safety costs in England: frequently asked questions

    From 28 June 2022, the leaseholder protections on building safety costs in England have come into effect.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Building Safety Fund: Information for leaseholders and residents

    Information to support leaseholders and residents living in buildings in the Building Safety Fund (BSF).

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Information for residents on fire safety and remediation of buildings

    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.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Waking Watch Replacement Fund 2023

    This summary explains the new £18.6 million fund to pay for the costs of installing an alarm system in residential buildings to replace Waking Watch.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Remediation costs: what leaseholders do and do not have to pay

    This guidance sets out further information about what you, the leaseholder, do and do not have to pay for remediating a building safety defect via your service charge.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Qualifying date, qualifying lease and extent

    This guidance clarifies the extent (or location) to which the leaseholder protections apply. It also explains what is meant by qualifying date and qualifying lease.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022: fire doors

    How to conduct routine checks on fire doors and provide information to residents.

    • From: Home Office
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  • Building Safety Fund Leaseholder and Resident Service

    Check the progress of your building’s application to the Building Safety Fund (BSF).

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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