Building safety: planning enforcement and the Responsible Actors Scheme (the 'RAS enforcement PPG')
Publication Year
2026
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on response to breaches of planning control under the Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023. Covers: RAS Regulations and the planning prohibition: overview; planning enforcement and the planning prohibition: overview; planning contravention notice; enforcement notice; stop notice; temporary stop notice; offences; and new model notices.
Document History
Last updated: 10 August 2026 - Removal of paragraph 004 to reflect legislative change and update to contact details in paragraph 003. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/building-safety-planning-enforcement-and-the-responsible-actors-scheme-the-ras-enforcement-ppg 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: 20 November 2023.
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
