What is The Department for Levelling Up (DLUHC)?
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is a central UK Government department that supports communities across the UK to thrive, making them great places to live and work. DLUHC is operating in collaboration...More
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What is the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)?
DLUHC is a central UK Government department, supporting UK-wide communities to thrive, making them great places to live...More
To finish the trial, complete the survey below, identifying improvement areas ahead of the 'Apply for a Voter Authority Certificate' service’s official launch.
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The Business Rates Retention (BRR) system distributes tax income between councils, and between councils and central government, according to need and established shares.
Separately, the next Business Rates Revaluation is due to take effect from 1 April 2023, changing business rates...More
This consultation seeks views on proposals to require Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) administering authorities in England and Wales to assess, manage and report on climate-related risks, in line with the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). ...More
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This consultation seeks views on a new Direction from the Secretary of State to the Regulator of Social Housing in relation to social housing rent policy. It focuses on the introduction of a rent ceiling from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, which would act as...More
The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) will be operating as part of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) from April 2023. We want to hear your views on the proposed operational standards rules (OSRs) we are developing for building control bodies.
We are consulting on:
OSRs
BSR...More
During its passage through Parliament, the government made several changes to the now Building Safety Act 2022 to protect qualifying leaseholders in buildings above 11m or 5 storeys from the costs of remediating their buildings.
The government made the decision that the leaseholder...More
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (the Department) has policy responsibility for local authority accounting. In practice, under the Local Authorities (Capital Finance and Accounting) (England) Regulations 2003 (the Regulations) authorities must comply with the accounting...More
Building Safety Regulator’s proposals for the Building Safety (Fees and Charges) Regulations
This consultation sets out the Building Safety Regulator’s proposals for the Building Safety (fees and charges) regulations and an underpinning charging scheme. The consultation...More
Building Safety Fund Objective
The objectives of the Building Safety Fund are that:
the historical life safety fire risks associated with cladding on high-rise residential buildings are addressed quickly and proportionately so that residents in those homes are safe ...More
Based on the information you have provided you do not appear to be eligible for the Building Safety Fund.
We understand this is disappointing news, however please could you provide some basic information on your building in the following form. The form should only take a few minutes to...More
You have told us that you have Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) as part of your external wall system. You may be eligible for government funding to remediate the ACM on your external wall system.
We will require further information and any evidence you may have that indicates that...More
This area of the consultation details implementing the new regime for occupied higher-risk buildings in relation to the building assessment certificate.
A building assessment certificate will only be issued by the Building Safety Regulator if it is satisfied that, at the time it carries...More
This area of the consultation on implementing the new regime for occupied higher-risk buildings relates to the enforcement of the regime.
The Government intends to bring forward regulations related to enforcement during the occupation of a higher-risk building. This will deal with: ...More
As part of the new regulatory regime, we are introducing a mandatory occurrence reporting requirement which will require specific people responsible for the safety of higher-risk buildings to capture and report certain fire and structural safety issues called ‘safety occurrences’ to...More
This area of the consultation on implementing the new regime for occupied higher-risk buildings and relates to the key building information.
The Government understands the importance of data and data analysis and how this can support better building safety. Data analysis...More
This area of the consultation on implementing the new regime for occupied higher-risk buildings relates to the accountable person(s) and the principal accountable person.
As part of the Building Safety Act 2022 (the Act), we have defined the dutyholder in occupation as the accountable...More
This area of the consultation on implementing the new regime for occupied higher-risk buildings relates to the safety case report and the safety case approach.
As part of the new regulatory requirements, we are introducing a safety case regime to oversee the management of building...More
There are 12 consultation sections in this area. These consultations all relate to the proposals for occupied higher-risk buildings under Part Four of the Building Safety Act 2022. A HTML version of this consultation can be found here .
Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy in June 2017,...More
This area of the consultation on implementing the new regime for occupied higher-risk buildings and relates to how the golden thread (and the information and documents within the golden thread) is stored and managed.
The golden thread is a key part of the more stringent...More
This area of the consultation on implementing the new regime for occupied higher-risk buildings relates to the information and documents that have to be stored in the golden thread (the contents of the golden thread).
The golden thread is a key part of the...More
This area of the consultation on implementing the new regime for occupied higher-risk buildings relates to the duties on the principal accountable person and accountable person(s) to provide information to various person(s) or organisations including residents and the Building Safety...More
This area of the consultation on implementing the new building control regime for higher-risk buildings and wider changes to the building regulations for all buildings relates to the the equalities impact of our proposals.
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This area of the consultation on implementing the new regime for occupied higher-risk buildings relates to residents' voice.
Residents and leaseholders should be safe and feel safe in their homes. We are introducing a set of specific residents’ voice requirements that will ensure all...More
There are 12 consultation sections in this area. These consultations all relate to the proposed changes to Building Regulations under Part Three of the Building Safety Act 2022. A HTML version of this consultations can be found here .
Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the Government...More
This area of the consultation on implementing the new building control regime for higher-risk buildings and wider changes to the building regulations for all buildings relates to the new dutyholder roles and responsibilities in the building regulations to ensure a stronger focus on compliance with...More