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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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  • Security in dwellings: Approved Document Q

    Building regulation for England covering security in dwellings.

    • From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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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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  • Preparing a resident engagement strategy

    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
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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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  • Leaseholder contribution caps

    This guidance provides an overview of what the contribution caps for qualifying leaseholders’ non-cladding remediation are and how these will work in practice.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Submitting mandatory occurrence notices and reports

    A guide for principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons to report incidents or risks of structural failure, or the spread of fire to the Building Safety Regulator.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Criteria for determining whether an existing building is a higher-risk building during building work

    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)…

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Material and workmanship: Approved Document 7

    Building regulation for England setting out the standards of the building materials and skills used.

    • From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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  • Your garden walls: better to be safe

    Information on inspecting garden and boundary walls

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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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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  • Infrastructure for electronic communications: Approved Document R

    Building regulation for England covering requirements for infrastructure for electronic communications networks in buildings.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 2 others
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  • Safety case for a high-rise residential building

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

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Change control and notifiable changes: manage building control approval

    How to make a change control application for higher-risk building work or building work to an existing higher-risk building.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Approved Document O: Overheating, frequently asked questions

    Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document O, which sets standards for reducing overheating risk in new residential buildings.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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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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  • Approved Document S: Infrastructure for charging electric vehicles, frequently asked questions

    Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document S, which sets standards for installation of electric vehicle charge points or cable routes.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Toilet accommodation: Approved Document T

    Building regulation in England to provide guidance on the design and layout of universal toilets, ambulant toilets and toilet cubicles.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Definition of ‘relevant defect’

    This guidance summarises the types of defects to which the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 apply.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • What are my building owner’s legal obligations?

    This guidance outlines the obligations that the leaseholder protections in the Act place onto building owners, right-to-manage companies, resident management companies and named managers.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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