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The Building Safety Regulator has launched a free toolkit designed to support ‘Principal Accountable Persons’ who are currently overseeing more than 13,000 high-rise residential buildings across England. This centralised resource will help duty holders to fulfil their statutory duties under the Building Safety Act 2022.
The toolkit has been developed to help ‘Principal Accountable Persons’ – and notably so those in resident managed buildings – navigate their complex duties and uphold the highest building safety standards.
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The British Standards Institution (BSI) has published a revised version of PAS 9980, the Code of Practice for the fire risk appraisal of external wall construction and cladding of existing blocks of flats.
The document contains an updated risk-based methodology to support “more consistent and proportionate assessments” across the built environment, and comes into force on 30th September .
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Today, 9th July 2026, the Building Safety Minster, Samantha Dixon published a Ministerial Statement setting out the steps the Government is taking to improve the effectiveness, proportionality and overall operation of the building safety regime.
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The Building Safety Regulator will update its approach to Building Assessment Certificates (BAC), providing greater support for duty holders while maintaining high standards of building safety.
The proposed new approach will be more proportionate and targeted. It will also offer greater support to resident-led principal accountable persons (PAPs).
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The Property Institute (TPI), whose members manage around 2 million homes across the UK, has today published research revealing a widening two-tier divide in cladding remediation, with Government-funded schemes completing at more than double the rate of buildings covered by pledged developers. TPI is now calling for the Remediation Bill to include stronger compulsion measures to force developers signed up to the Responsible Actor’s Scheme to act.
At the current rate of progress, TPI estimates it could take around ten years for all developer-pledged buildings to have started remediation works on site.