The national Building Safety Regulator opened registrations earlier this month, right on schedule, for high-risk (high rise) residential buildings, in accordance with the Building Safety Act 2022.
Registering Your Higher-Risk Building*
The accountable person is responsible for registering a building with the Building Safety Regulator, having prepared a safety case report for the building, demonstrating how building safety risks are being identified, mitigated and managed. (The accountable person could be an individual or an organisation.)
If an existing development qualifies as a higher-risk building* it must be registered with the Building Safety Regulator between April 2023 and October 2023.
Similarly, all new higher-risk buildings must be registered before occupation, and all relevant occupied buildings must be registered by October 2023. (It will be an offence if a higher-risk building is occupied but not registered after this date.)
If a building has more than one accountable entity, the person / body responsible for the structure and exterior of the building will be the principal accountable person.
Accountable persons will need to demonstrate that they are competent and have effective, proportionate measures in place to manage safety risks in the higher-risk buildings for which they are responsible. From April 2024, registered buildings will start to be issued with Building Assessment Certificates.
*Higher-risk buildings in the Building Safety Act 2022 are defined by height and use. Specifically, those buildings at least 18 metres in height from the ground to the floor of the highest occupied storey, or have at least 7 storeys, excluding sub-ground levels, and have at least two residential units.
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