Criteria for determining if a new building that is being designed and constructed is a "higher-risk building"

Publication Year

2026

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides guidance on how to check if a proposed new building is covered by the higher-risk building regime in Wales. Covers: guidance for understanding whether the proposed new building is a higher-risk building in the design and construction phase of the regime; use criteria; counting storeys and measuring height; and glossary of key terms.

Document History

Sourced from: https://www.gov.wales/criteria-determining-if-new-building-being-designed-and-constructed-higher-risk-building and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 18 June 2026.

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