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ByBuilding Safety Regulatorindigo_delta_4be4ab

What documents clients need to submit to manage building control approval for higher-risk building work under transitional arrangements.

Adapted edition

Building safetyHousing compliance
Document type
Reference Guide
Format
DOCX
Pages
12
Language
English
Version
1.0
Updated
2026-09-17
Category
Safety & operations
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Description

What documents clients need to submit to manage building control approval for higher-risk building work under transitional arrangements. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.

Contents
  • When transitional arrangements apply
  • What counts as a higher-risk building
  • Sufficiently progressed
  • Full plans rejected before 1 October 2023
  • Full plans on work to an existing higher-risk building are rejected from 1 October 2023
  • What to do after the plans are rejected
  • Work carried out before the rejection date
  • An initial notice is cancelled between 1 October 2023 and 6 April 2024 and work is not sufficiently progressed on work to an existing higher-risk building
  • What to do after the initial notice is cancelled
  • Work carried out before the cancellation date
  • An initial notice is cancelled from 6 April 2024 and work is not sufficiently progressed on work to an existing higher-risk building
  • What to do after the initial notice is cancelled
  • Work carried out before the cancellation date
  • Building control approval lapses before 6 April 2024 and work has not commenced
  • Building work in an existing higher-risk building has sufficiently progressed but the initial notice is cancelled between 1 October 2023 and 6 April 2024
  • Building work to an existing higher-risk building has sufficiently progressed, but the approved inspector is not a registered building control approver from 6 April 2024
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Transitional building control approval for work on existing higher-risk buildings

Building Safety Regulator

Original source OGL-UK-3.0

AttributionBuilding Safety Regulator, ‘Transitional building control approval for work on existing higher-risk buildings’ (updated 2 April 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
  • v1.017/09/2026
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