Building Safety Regulator: Latest news

The Government wants to accelerate the remediation of HRBs, starting with those clad with combustible aluminium composite material (ACM) and high-pressure laminate (HPL). In response to the Grenfell Phase 2 Inquiry report, it has transferred responsibility for fire safety from the Home Office to MHCLG. This brings responsibility for building safety and fire safety under a single Secretary of State to provide a more coherent approach to keeping people safe from fire in their homes.

What is the BSR doing to enforce remediation action plans?

A new Remediation Enforcement Unit is being set up in the BSR to quickly assess the cladding risk for all registered buildings. The Unit will hold owners of registered HRBs clad with combustible ACM and HPL to account, enforcing where necessary to ensure unsafe cladding on HRBs is remediated. The unit is expected to be operational by Summer 2025.

What should landlords do?

Having registered their HRBs, landlords (PAP/AP) should identify all their HRBs clad with combustible ACM and HPL and ensure that action plans are developed to carry out remedial work to all HRBs assessed with a higher risk posed by their cladding. They should make it a priority to implement these plans.

In addition, landlords should continue managing building safety and developing their resident engagement strategies to ensure residents of HRBs are safe. They should also be collecting all information required for the Building Safety case report and carrying out all other actions so they are ready to apply for a BAC when invited by the BSR.

What information is required for BAC?

PAPs must provide:

• the resident engagement strategy
• information about the mandatory occurrence reporting system
• the safety case report.

BSR will ask PAPs to confirm that they, and any other accountable persons for the building are providing building information to relevant individuals and organisations.

The BSR has published guidance on preparing a BAC application.

Where can I find out more information and get help?

The BSR has published information, including FAQs on how the Building Control Authority works. It is hosting a series of webinars to provide practical advice and guidance on a range of building safety topics. Previous webinars are available through video on demand.

APs and PAPs should sign up to the receive the monthly BSR Bulletin. You can read the most recent bulletins - February 2025 and January 2025.

It has also published information on the roles of APs and the PAP and their legal duties and will be producing case studies.

The NHMF Best Practice website includes briefing on Building Safety, Fire Safety, and Resident Safety. The NHMF Annual Conference 2025 included a plenary on Building Safety and workshops.

In addition, the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) and Building a Safer Future (BSF) have entered a new strategic partnership support organisations assess their competency in relation to building safety, especially in regard to HRBs.