Following the Grenfell disaster on 14 June 2017 and resultant Hackitt Review, Government has put in place legislation that changes the building safety regulatory landscape for tall residential occupancy type buildings.<\/p>\n
Following the enactment of The Building Safety Act 2022 on 28 April 2022, secondary associated legislation was made and laid before Parliament in August 2023 and comes into force on the 1 October 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n Dave Allen, Director of Building Control said \u2013 \u201cThese are far-reaching changes to the building regulatory system and Cook Brown are ideally placed to de-mystify and guide our clients through the complexities of the legislation and provide prompt, impartial and accurate building control advice.\u201d<\/p>\n Below is a simple guide to how the procedural changes may affect those working on new-build or alterations to tall residential buildings in England and Wales.<\/p>\n A building or linked-together structures that contains at least two residential units with an occupied level at least 18M from ground level, or has at least 7 storeys.<\/p>\n A building that comprises of entirely a secure residential institution, hotels or military barracks is not classified as an HRB. Flats, apartments and student accommodation are classified as HRBs.<\/p>\n The erection of an HRB or any building work within a HRB is subject to the provisions in the Building Safety Act and from 1 October 2023 an online building control application will need to be made to the HSE BSR under Gateways 2 and 3. We are unable to act as the building control body but can act as consultants to support a BSR application.<\/p>\n A application will not be required to be submitted to the BSR and we can act as the Building Control Body where: `Sufficiently progressed` is defined as: Please note Gateway 1 applications and HRB’s must still be registered under the BSR and information recorded under the golden thread.<\/p>\n Please contact us if you would like further advice about the transitional provisions and the BSR regime for your projects.<\/p>\n The Building Safety Act 2022<\/a> The Building Safety Act 2022 and Associated Legislation 2023 Introduction Following the Grenfell disaster on 14 June 2017 and resultant Hackitt Review, Government has put in place legislation that changes the building safety regulatory landscape for tall residential occupancy type buildings. Following the enactment of The Building<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"cbbc-admin","author_link":"https:\/\/cookbrown.co.uk\/author\/cbbc-admin\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Latest News<\/a> Technical Updates<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Building Safety Act 2022 and Associated Legislation 2023 Introduction Following the Grenfell disaster on 14 June 2017 and resultant Hackitt Review, Government has put in place legislation that changes the building safety regulatory landscape for tall residential occupancy type buildings. Following the enactment of The Building","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookbrown.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookbrown.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookbrown.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookbrown.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookbrown.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38783"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cookbrown.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39747,"href":"https:\/\/cookbrown.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38783\/revisions\/39747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookbrown.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookbrown.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookbrown.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is a Higher-risk building (HRB)?<\/h6>\n
What types of building work are subject to the Building Safety Act?<\/h6>\n
Transitional Provisions<\/h6>\n
\n\u2022 We have served an Initial Notice on the Local Authority and this has been accepted before the 1 October 2023 for each building and;
\n\u2022 Works are sufficiently progressed on site before 6 April 2024 and;
\n\u2022 The person carrying out the work have notified the Local Authority and ourselves that works have sufficiently progressed on each building no more than 5 days after date of start.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 For a newly erected HRB \u2013 Permanent placing of a foundation trench, pad, raft or piling.
\n\u2022 To an existing HRB or change of use \u2013 When building work has started.<\/p>\nNext Steps<\/h6>\n
Further Reading<\/h6>\n
\nThe Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023. SI 2023 No. 909<\/a>
\nThe Building (Approved Inspectors etc. and Review of Decisions) (England) Regulations 2023. SI 2023 No.906<\/a>
\nThe Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023. DRAFT SI 2023 No. TBC<\/a>
\nHSE – Building Control: An overview of the new regime Gateways 2 and 3 \u2013 application to completion certificate Published 08\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"