Transitional building control approval for new higher-risk buildings

Publication Year

2024

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides guidance on transitional building control approval for new higher-risk buildings. Covers: when transitional arrangements apply; what counts as a higher-risk building; sufficiently progressed; full plans rejected before 1 October 2023; full plans rejected for creating a new higher-risk building from 1 October 2023; an initial notice for creating a new higher-risk building is cancelled between 1 October 2023 and 6 April 2024 and the work is not sufficiently progressed; an initial notice for creating a new higher-risk building is cancelled from 6 April 2024 and the work is not sufficiently progressed; building control approval lapses before 6 April 2024 and work has not commenced; building work to create a new higher-risk building has sufficiently progressed but the initial notice is cancelled between 1 October 2023 and 6 April 2024; building work to create a higher-risk building has sufficiently progressed but the approved inspector is not a registered building control approver from 6 April 2024; building work to create a higher-risk building has sufficiently progressed, but the initial notice ceases after 6 April 2024; and work to new higher-risk building with full plans is not sufficiently progressed by 6 April 2024.

Document History

Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/transitional-building-control-approval-for-new-higher-risk-buildings 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: 2 April 2024.

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