The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023

From April 2024: local authority to notify regulator where work has not sufficiently progressed

6.—(1) No later than 6th March 2024, each local authority must give the regulator a notice stating in respect of each relevant building for which it has not by that date received a notice under paragraph 1(4)—

(a) the name and address of the building;

(b) the name, address, telephone number and (if available) email address of the person carrying out the work;

(c) details of the intended use of the higher-risk building, including the intended use of each storey;

(d) the proposed height of the higher-risk building as determined in accordance with regulation 5 of the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023(1);

(e) the proposed number of storeys in the higher-risk building as determined in accordance with regulation 6 of the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023;

(f) the proposed number of flats, number of residential rooms and number of commercial units proposed to be contained in the higher-risk building;

(g) the provision to be made for the drainage of the building;

(h) where paragraph H4 of Schedule 1 to the 2010 Regulations imposes a requirement, the precautions to be taken in the building over a drain, sewer or disposal main to comply with the requirements of that paragraph;

(i) the steps to be taken to comply with any local enactment that applies;

(j) details of the work which has been carried out together with a summary of the inspections undertaken by the local authority in relation to the work.

(2) In this paragraph a “relevant building” is a building in relation to which paragraph 1(1)(b) applies.

(1)

S.I. 2023/275.