Criteria for determining whether an existing building is a higher-risk building during building work

Publication Year

2024

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides guidance on the process of determining whether an existing building needs to be considered a "higher-risk building" under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023. Covers: guidance for understanding whether the building is a higher-risk building during building work in an existing higher-risk building; use criteria; building definition; counting storeys and measuring height; and glossary.

Document History

Last updated: 18 October 2024 - Updated to include a notice clarifying the government’s current position following the recent tribunal judgement that roof gardens should be classified as a storey. Sourced from https://www.gov.uk/guidance/criteria-for-determining-whether-an-existing-building-is-a-higher-risk-building-during-building-work 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 19 October 2023.

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