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Requirement B4
Publication Year
2019
Document Status
Current
Abstract
A reminder notification to building control bodies assessing compliance under requirement B4, Schedule 1 of the Building Regulations 2010, as amended. Clarifies considerations regarding fire spread over external walls and applying this to low-rise buildings.
Document History
Issued as part of the: Building regulations: circular letters collection initially published by DCLG and now continued by MHCLG: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/building-regulations-divisional-circular-letters. Circular letter dated 1 July 2019.
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
2 Marsham Street
London
MHCLG
UK
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government
