Applying to register a high-rise residential building
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How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Check if you need to register a building
- Types of buildings you do not need to register
- Check who can register the building
- Authorising someone else to register
- Register the building
- Building summary
- Number of floors at or above ground level
- Ground level
- Top floor
- Height of the building
- Number of residential units
- When the building was completed
- Structure and fire safety information
- Making changes to your application: before you submit it
- Withdraw an application
- Decisions
Source and licence
Building Safety Regulator
AttributionBuilding Safety Regulator, ‘Applying to register a high-rise residential building’ (updated 25 March 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026