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ByBuilding Safety Regulatorcoral_ridge_57e41b

How to apply for building control approval from the Building Safety Regulator to construct, or carry out building work on, a higher-risk building.

Adapted edition

Building safety
Document type
Reference Guide
Format
DOCX
Pages
9
Language
English
Version
1.0
Updated
2026-09-16
Category
Safety & operations
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Description

How to apply for building control approval from the Building Safety Regulator to construct, or carry out building work on, a higher-risk building. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.

Contents
  • The role of the Building Safety Regulator (BSR)
  • Non-higher-risk buildings
  • Projects with higher-risk and non-higher-risk buildings
  • Who must apply for building control approval
  • When to get building control approval
  • Transitional buildings
  • Building work that does not need building control approval
  • Exempt work
  • Competent person scheme work
  • Applying to construct a new higher-risk building
  • How to apply: new higher-risk buildings
  • Check how many applications you need: new higher-risk buildings
  • Staged applications
  • Applying to carry out building work on an existing higher-risk building
  • Before applying: existing higher-risk buildings
  • How to apply: existing higher-risk buildings
Source and licence
Building control approval for higher-risk buildings

Building Safety Regulator

Original source OGL-UK-3.0

AttributionBuilding Safety Regulator, ‘Building control approval for higher-risk buildings’ (updated 1 April 2026), 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
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