Buildings: Safety
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many regularisation of unauthorised building work applications received by the Building Safety Regulator were withdrawn at the applicant’s request in each month between October 2023 and April 2025 under regulation 47 of the Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023.
Answered by Alex Norris
The Department and the Building Safety Regulator recognise the value to the sector in providing performance data. From this quarter, BSR will be publishing quarterly data demonstrating the volumes of applications received, recorded outcomes and decision times for determination.
The table below shows:
- Number of regularisation applications for unauthorised building work received by the Building Safety Regulator rejected between October 2024 and April 2025
- Number of regularisation applications for unauthorised building work received by the Building Safety Regulator withdrawn at applicants request between October 2024 and April 2025
- Number of regularisation applications for unauthorised building work received by the Building Safety Regulator received between October 2024 and April 2025
Year / Month | Rejection | Withdrawn | Total received |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
October | 0 | 0 | 0 |
November | 0 | 0 | 0 |
December | 0 | 0 | 1 |
2024 | 10 | 10 | 81 |
January | 0 | 0 | 3 |
February | 1 | 0 | 2 |
March | 1 | 1 | 8 |
April | 3 | 2 | 6 |
May | 0 | 0 | 1 |
June | 1 | 2 | 4 |
July | 2 | 0 | 11 |
August | 0 | 0 | 3 |
September | 2 | 3 | 13 |
October | 0 | 2 | 6 |
November | 0 | 0 | 14 |
December | 0 | 0 | 10 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
January | 0 | 0 | 9 |
February | 0 | 0 | 3 |
March | 0 | 0 | 3 |
April | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Total | 10 | 10 | 100 |
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