Transitional building control approval for work on existing higher-risk buildings

Publication Year

2024

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides guidance on transitional building control approval for existing 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 on work to an existing higher-risk building are rejected from 1 October 2023; an initial notice is cancelled between 1 October 2023 and 6 April 2024 and the work is not sufficiently progressed; an initial notice is cancelled from 6 April 2024 and work is not sufficiently progressed; 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; building work to create a higher-risk building has sufficiently progressed, but the initial notice ceases after 6 April 2024; and work to existing 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-work-on-existing-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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