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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 Bu…
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Building regulation for England covering requirements for infrastructure for electronic communications networks in buildings.
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)…
How principal designers, principal contractors and principal accountable persons must set up and maintain a system to report building safety incidents and risks.
What you must do before changing a project that has been approved by the Building Safety Regulator.
Links to secondary legislation.
Information on inspecting garden and boundary walls
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
A collection of historical documents relating to Approved Document B. This includes previous versions of Approved Documents B that are no longer in use, associated FAQs and archived amendment booklets.
Building regulation for England setting out the standards of the building materials and skills used.
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document F, which sets standards for ventilation in new dwellings.
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document O, which sets standards for reducing overheating risk in new residential buildings.
Government wrote to developers on 30 January 2023 asking them to sign a contract committing them to remediate unsafe buildings which they developed.
This guidance provides an overview of what the contribution caps for qualifying leaseholders’ non-cladding remediation are and how these will work in practice.
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.
This guidance summarises the types of defects to which the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 apply.
Information and advice for building owners, landlords and leaseholders where aluminium composite cladding is present on their building.
Use this service to submit a mandatory occurrence notice and report for higher-risk buildings, including high-rise residential buildings, to the BSR.
Use this service to apply to become a registered building inspector in England and Wales with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR), and pay your annual maintenance charge.
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