Preparing information for a building control approval application
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Help with the information you must submit to the Building Safety Regulator when you apply to construct, or carry out building work on, a higher-risk building.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Help with the information you must submit to the Building Safety Regulator when you apply to construct, or carry out building work on, a higher-risk building. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Applying for building control approval
- The role of BSR
- How to submit information for the application
- Keep the contact details for the application up to date
- Details of the person making the application
- Client authorisation
- Details of the client, principal designer and principal contractor
- Building name and location
- Drawings and plans
- Proposed work
- Building height
- Number of storeys
- Intended use of the building and each storey
- Site and drainage
- Local enactments
- Drains and sewers
Source and licence
Building Safety Regulator
AttributionBuilding Safety Regulator, ‘Preparing information for a building control approval application’ (updated 18 December 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