Safety in high-rise residential buildings: accountable persons
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Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Accountable person (AP)
- Principal accountable person (PAP)
- Check who the PAP is
- Who is accountable
- Single point of contact
- Complex leaseholds
- Management companies and agents
- Landlords
- Uncertainty or disputes about who is accountable
- How APs work with Responsible Persons (Fire Safety)
- Legal duties
- Check the parts of the building you are responsible for
- Accessing a residence
- Multiple APs
- Long leases
- Contravention notice
Source and licence
Building Safety Regulator
AttributionBuilding Safety Regulator, ‘Safety in high-rise residential buildings: accountable persons’ (updated 18 September 2024), 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