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  • Building regulation in England covering the prevention of toxic substances in buildings.

  • Find out how you can join a third party certification scheme for domestic electrical work.

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

  • 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.

  • Approved Document F to support Part F of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations 2010.

  • Information for leaseholders and other residents about fire safety and fixing fire safety problems (also called remediation) including unsafe cladding.

  • What the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) charges for building control, inspection, registration and other functions, and how BSR calculates these.

  • Guidance for local authorities, registered building control approvers, and persons carrying out building work.

  • Use this service to submit a mandatory occurrence notice and report for higher-risk buildings to the BSR.

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

  • What the principal accountable person and accountable persons must do to prepare, submit and update a resident engagement strategy for a high-rise residential building.

  • This summary explains the new £41.71 million fund to pay for the costs of installing an alarm system in residential buildings to replace Waking Watch.

  • 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.

  • Information on reversions for members of the public.

  • What documents clients need to submit to manage building control approval for higher-risk building work under transitional arrangements.

  • This page provides a template for a home user guide and a ventilation guide to inform homeowners how to operate and ventilate their dwelling.

  • This guidance provides an overview of cladding remediation and how this definition will impact you in practice.

  • 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).

  • Information and advice for building owners, landlords and leaseholders where aluminium composite cladding is present on their building.

  • Guidance for local authorities and fire and rescue services on the use remediation orders, a Building Safety Act 2022 enforcement power.