Guidance and regulation

How clients can submit and manage a building control application to the Building Safety Regulator for higher-risk building work or building work to an existing higher-risk building.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 24 April 2024

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
• Updated: 8 February 2024

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

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 31 January 2024

Find out the classes of building inspectors, the competencies needed and how to register as a building inspector in England and Wales.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 9 May 2024

Responsibilities of the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building’s safety case report.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 2 April 2024

Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 5 March 2024

Duties of the principal accountable person and accountable persons of a high-rise residential building to prepare and update a resident engagement strategy.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 21 September 2023

The National Model Design Code provides detailed guidance on the production of design codes, guides and policies to promote successful design.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 14 October 2021

Responsibilities of accountable persons for a building’s safety case.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 19 September 2023

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
• Updated: 4 March 2024

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
• Updated: 31 January 2024

Duties and responsibilities of the principal accountable person.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 27 March 2024

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
• Updated: 9 February 2024

A tool designed to help individuals and teams identify the skills and capacity of their organisation.

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 2 November 2023

Guidance on the grant to provide additional support to 21 areas producing exemplar design codes.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 8 July 2022

Part of a series collecting key facts and figures on new homes and regeneration.

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 2 November 2023

Find details of a building inspector listed on the register of building inspectors for Wales.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 9 May 2024

Find details of a building inspector listed on the register of building inspectors for England.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 9 May 2024

​The government is inviting expressions of interest from local planning authorities in England to test the National Model Design Code.

• From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Updated: 30 January 2021

The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.

• From: Health and Safety Executive
• Updated: 4 March 2024