Criteria for determining whether a building is a higher-risk building during the occupation phase of the new higher-risk regime

Publication Year

2023

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides guidance on the criteria for a building to be a "higher-risk building" during the occupation phase of the higher-risk regime under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023. Covers: guidance for understanding whether the building is a higher-risk building in occupation; use criteria; building definition; counting storeys and measuring height; and glossary.

Document History

Last updated 19 October 2023. Sourced from https://www.gov.uk/guidance/criteria-for-being-a-higher-risk-building-during-the-occupation-phase-of-the-new-higher-risk-regime and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published 21 June 2023.

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