Resource library
Where to go for the source material. We cite primary sources, not aggregators, and we link out generously: the legislation, the regulator, the guidance bodies and the standards. If a document is Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence, it can be reused with attribution; where it is not, we point you to the original rather than copy it.
Official and legal
The primary sources: the Act, the regulations and the government guidance. Reusable under the Open Government Licence.
- GOV.UK Building Safety Act collection
MHCLG
The government's landing page for the Act, its regulations and its guidance. The best single starting point for primary material.
- Building Safety Act 2022 (full text)
legislation.gov.uk
The Act itself, as amended, with a full XML API. Where you go when a summary is not enough and you need the words of the statute.
- Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023
legislation.gov.uk
The regulations that set out how Gateways 2 and 3 actually operate: applications, determinations, change control and completion.
- Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023
legislation.gov.uk
The regulations that define which buildings are higher-risk, including the height and storey tests and how they are measured.
- Building Safety Regulator
MHCLG
The regulator's home on gov.uk: guidance, application routes, and the campaign material for dutyholders and accountable persons.
- Health and Safety Executive: building safety
HSE
HSE ran the BSR until it became standalone. Its building safety pages still hold useful guidance on planning gateway one and dutyholder duties.
- Planning gateway one
HSE
The statutory consultee guidance for fire safety at planning stage: what a fire statement needs and how the consultation works.
- Fire safety and high-rise residential buildings (from 1 August 2021)
MHCLG
The guidance that introduced Gateway 1 fire statements with planning applications for relevant buildings.
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Grenfell Tower Inquiry
The public inquiry whose findings shaped the Act, including the Phase 2 report of 4 September 2024. The human and factual record behind the regime.
- First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber)
HM Courts and Tribunals Service
Where remediation orders and remediation contribution orders under Part 5 are decided. Relevant to leaseholders and building owners.
- Homes England: building safety and remediation
Homes England
The delivery body for several remediation funding routes for existing buildings with unsafe cladding.
Data
The published statistics behind the charts on this site.
- Building Safety Regulator data
MHCLG
The published building control approval statistics: decision volumes, approval rates and timescales. The primary source behind our charts.
Guidance bodies
Industry guidance we summarise but never republish. Read the originals.
- Construction Leadership Council: building safety
CLC
The CLC guidance notes (GN01 to GN11) have become the de facto Gateway 2 submission standard. Read the originals; we summarise, we do not republish.
- Build UK: Building Safety Act guidance
Build UK
Build UK's validation and application guides for Gateways 2 and 3, written from the contractor's side of the table.
- LEASE: leasehold advice
LEASE
Free government-funded advice for leaseholders on qualifying leases, landlord certificates and the Part 5 protections.
Institutions and standards
Professional institutions and standards bodies. Some material is paid; we describe, we do not copy.
- RIBA: Building Safety Act resources
RIBA
The architects' institute view of dutyholder duties and the principal designer role. Useful on validation-driven rejections.
- RICS: fire safety and building safety
RICS
Surveying-side guidance on building safety, remediation and the valuation questions the regime raises.
- CIOB: Building Safety Act
CIOB
The Chartered Institute of Building's practitioner guidance on competence and the construction phase duties.
- LABC: building safety
LABC
Local Authority Building Control guidance, useful where a project sits at the boundary of the higher-risk regime and ordinary building control.
- National Fire Chiefs Council
NFCC
Fire and rescue service guidance relevant to fire statements, safety cases and resident engagement.
- BSI: BS 9991:2024 landing page
BSI
The current code of practice for fire safety in residential buildings, referenced across Gateway 2 fire strategies. A paid BSI standard; we describe it, we never reproduce it.
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