Making changes to a higher-risk building project
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What you must do before changing a project that has been approved by the Building Safety Regulator.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
What you must do before changing a project that has been approved by the Building Safety Regulator. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Assess and record changes
- Notifiable changes: tell BSR
- Stopping building work for notifiable changes
- Major changes: get approval from BSR
- Stopping building work for major changes
- Other changes
- How to submit changes to BSR
- Information to submit to BSR for a notifiable or major change
- Multiple changes
- New buildings constructed in stages
- Major changes: application decisions
- Application validation
- Approved
- Approved with requirements
- Rejected
- Request a review of an application decision
Source and licence
Building Safety Regulator
AttributionBuilding Safety Regulator, ‘Making changes to a higher-risk building project’ (updated 27 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