Approved Document 7
Materials and workmanship
Library
England building regulations
48 codes and guides, built from 293 documents. Each card is one code: its current edition on the front, older editions and amendments behind it.
48 codes shown
Technical guidance
33Approved Document A
Structure
Approved Document B
Fire safety
2019 editionnew edition pending
Current editions
- Approved Document B (fire safety) volume 1: Dwellings, 2019 edition incorporating 2020, 2022 and 2025 amendments collated with 2026 and 2029 amendments
- Approved Document B (fire safety) volume 2: Buildings other than dwellings, 2019 edition incorporating 2020, 2022 and 2025 amendments collated with 2026 and 2029 amendments
Pending editions and amendments
Amendments and corrections
- 2026 amendments to Approved Document B, volume 1 and volume 2
- 2025 amendments to Approved Document B, volume 1 and volume 2
- June 2022 amendments to Approved Document B, volume 1 and volume 2
- May 2020 amendments to Approved Document B, volume 1 and volume 2
Older editions
Related circulars and guidance
- Amendments to Approved Document B (fire safety): Circular 01/2025
- Amendments to Approved Document B (fire safety): letter
- Approved Document B (Fire Safety): new updates to support enhanced fire safety
- Approved Document B 2019 edition: circular 02/2019
- Approved Document B 2022 amendments: circular 02/2022
- Approved Document B 2024 amendments: circular 01/2024
- Approved Document B 2024 amendments: circular letter
- Approved Document B 2024 amendments: circular letter
- Approved Document B April 2019 edition: circular 01/2019
- Approved Document B volume 1 and 2: circular 01/2020
- Approved Document B volume 1 and volume 2: circular 03/2018
- Approved Document B: Fire safety - frequently asked questions
- Circular letter on Approved Document B 2019 edition
- Circular letter on Approved Document B April 2019 edition
- Circular letter on Approved Document B volume 1 and 2
- Circular letter on Approved Document B volume 1 and volume 2
- Circular letter: Notice of corrections to Approved Document B 2019 edition incorporating 2020 and 2022 amendments
- Notice of correction to Approved Document B 2019 edition
Approved Document C
Site preparation and resistance to contaminants and moisture
Current
Current edition
Related circulars and guidance
Approved Document E
Resistance to the passage of sound
Current
Current edition
Related circulars and guidance
Approved Document F
Ventilation
Approved Document G
Sanitation, hot water safety and water efficiency
Current
Current edition
Amendments and corrections
- May 2024 amendments to Approved Document G: Sanitation, hot water safety and water efficiency
- Corrections to Approved Document G 2015 edition with 2016 amendments: sanitation, hot water safety and water efficiency
Related circulars and guidance
Approved Document J
Combustion appliances and fuel storage systems
Current
Current edition
Related circulars and guidance
Approved Document L
Conservation of fuel and power
2021 edition
Current editions
- Approved Document L, Conservation of fuel and power, Volume 1: Dwellings, 2021 edition incorporating 2023 amendments
- Approved Document L, Conservation of fuel and power, Volume 2: Buildings other than dwellings, 2021 edition incorporating 2023 amendments
Amendments and corrections
Related circulars and guidance
- Building Regulations 2000 Approved Documents L1A, L1B, L2A, L2B – proposed revisions
- Building Regulations 2000, Schedule 1, Part L Approved Documents L1A, L1B, L2A, L2B: proposed revisions multi-foil insulation
- Circular 01/2018: Amended Approved Document L1B and Domestic Building Services Compliance guide
- New editions of Approved Document L1B and the Domestic Services Compliance Guide
Approved Document M
Access to and use of buildings
Current
Current editions
- Approved Document M: access to and use of buildings, volume 1: dwellings
- Approved Document M: access to and use of buildings, volume 2: buildings other than dwellings
Amendments and corrections
- May 2024 amendments to Approved Document M: Access to and use of buildings Volume 2 – Buildings other than dwellings
- July 2020 amendments to Approved Document M: Access to and use of buildings Volume 2 – Buildings other than dwellings
- Corrections to Approved Document M 2015 edition with 2016 amendments volume 1: dwellings
Related circulars and guidance
Approved Document R
Physical infrastructure for electronic communications
Building control profession
Registration, competence and standards for inspectors, approvers and building control bodies
28 documents
Documents
- Building control bodies: contraventions and criminal offences
- Building control bodies: professional codes and standards
- Building inspector competence framework (BICoF)
- Circular letter to building control bodies: Operational Standards Rules
- Code of conduct for registered building inspectors
- Construction Industry Council Approved Inspectors (CICAIR)
- Criteria for independent competence assessment schemes
- Criteria for independent competence assessment schemes
- Find a registered building control approver in England
- Find a registered building control approver in Wales
- Find a registered building inspector in England
- Find a registered building inspector in Wales
- Inspection of building control bodies
- Inspection of building control bodies: inspection selection criteria
- Investigation of building control professionals
- Investigation procedure statement
- Mandatory technical competence (MTC) framework
- Operational standards rules
- Operational standards rules monitoring arrangements
- Professional conduct rules for registered building control approvers
- Register as a building inspector
- Register your business as a building control approver
- Registered building control approver (RBCA) assessment criteria
- Registered building control approver assessment criteria
- Registered building inspectors
- Registered building inspectors: professional codes and standards
- Self-certification schemes: mandatory technical competence requirements
- Submitting operational standards rules data
Building Safety Regulator: operations
Charging, enforcement, investigation, contact and strategy
9 documents
Documents
- Building Safety Regulator charging scheme
- Building Safety Regulator charging scheme 2026 to 2027
- Building Safety Regulator enforcement policy statement
- Building Safety Regulator enforcement policy statement
- Contact the Building Safety Regulator
- Local authorities in multi-disciplinary teams for the Building Safety Regulator
- Provision of assistance from local authorities in BSR multi-disciplinary teams
- The Building Safety (Fees and Charges) Regulations 202[3] and proposed Building Safety Regulator charging scheme
- The strategic context for the regulatory framework
Fire door guidance
Fire door testing, checklists and guidance under the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
Fire safety guides for small premises
Home Office guides for small blocks of flats, small non-domestic and paying-guest premises
Fire safety risk assessment guides by premises type
Home Office sector guides under the Fire Safety Order
15 documents
Documents
- Fire Safety Act - addendum
- Fire safety risk assessment: 5-step checklistAccessible version
- Fire safety risk assessment: animal premises and stables
- Fire safety risk assessment: educational premises
- Fire safety risk assessment: factories and warehouses
- Fire safety risk assessment: healthcare premises
- Fire safety risk assessment: large places of assembly
- Fire safety risk assessment: means of escape for disabled people (single document, including appendices)Accessible version
- Fire safety risk assessment: offices and shopsAccessible version
- Fire safety risk assessment: open-air events and venues
- Fire safety risk assessment: residential care premises
- Fire safety risk assessment: sleeping accommodationAccessible version
- Fire safety risk assessment: small and medium places of assemblyAccessible version
- Fire safety risk assessment: theatres, cinemas and similar premises
- Fire safety risk assessment: transport premises and facilities
Higher-risk buildings: building control (gateways)
BSR guidance for design and construction of HRBs
11 documents
Documents
- Additional Q&A: Changes to the building control process for higher-risk buildings and wider changes to procedural building regulations applying to buildings in England
- Additional Q&A: Changes to the building control process for higher-risk buildings and wider changes to procedural building regulations applying to buildings in England
- Applying for a completion certificate
- Building control approval for higher-risk buildings
- Design and building work: meeting building requirements
- Keeping information about a higher-risk building: the golden thread
- Making changes to a higher-risk building project
- Manage a building control application for a higher-risk building
- Preparing information for a building control approval application
- Transitional building control approval for new higher-risk buildings
- Transitional building control approval for work on existing higher-risk buildings
Higher-risk buildings: occupation
Registration, safety cases, KBI, resident engagement, mandatory occurrence reporting
21 documents
Documents
- Apply for a building assessment certificate
- Applying to register a high-rise residential building
- Assessing safety risks in high-rise residential buildings: a detailed guide
- Building safety guides for accountable persons
- Building Safety Regulator: giving us structure and safety information (key building information)
- Complain about a building safety risk in a high-rise building
- Find a high-rise residential building
- Giving BSR structure and fire safety information (key building information)
- High-rise residential building information accountable persons must provide
- Managing safety risks in high-rise residential buildings: a detailed guide
- Operating a complaints system for building safety in a high-rise residential building
- Operating a mandatory occurrence reporting system
- Preparing a building assessment certificate application
- Preparing a resident engagement strategy
- Preparing a safety case report
- Register or manage a high-rise residential building
- Residents and owners of residential units: actions to keep your building safe
- Safety in high-rise residential buildings: accountable persons
- Safety management systems for high-rise residential buildings
- Submit a mandatory occurrence notice and report
- Submitting mandatory occurrence notices and reports
Managing health and safety in construction
HSE guidance on the CDM Regulations 2015
Current
Current edition
Other guidance
Documents not yet assigned to a code
6 documents
Documents
- Assessments of external wall cladding systems
- Conservatories and porches
- Construction and maintenance of boundary and retaining walls
- Dynamic performance requirements for permanent grandstands subject to crowd action: recommendations for management, design and assessment
- New and amended Approved Documents and new Building Services Compliance Guides to support the energy efficiency requirements of the Building Regulations
- Temporary demountable structures: guidance on procurement, design and use (third edition)
Legislation
13Building Act 1984
1984 edition
Current edition
Related circulars and guidance
- Building Act 1984 and the Building (Local Authority Charges) Regulations 2010
- Building Act 1984 as amended by the Deregulation Act 2015
- Building Act 1984: Approved Document Basements for dwellings
- Building control by approved inspectors under Part 2 of the Building Act 1984
- Building control by approved inspectors under Part 2 of the Building Act 1984: designated warranty schemes for the purposes of the warranty link rule
- Building control by approved inspectors under Part 2 of the Building Act 1984: designated warranty schemes for the purposes of the warranty link rule
- Building control by approved inspectors under Part 2 of the Building Act 1984: insurance schemes for approved inspectors
- Building control by approved inspectors under Part II of the Building Act 1984: designated warranty schemes for the purposes of the Warranty Link Rule
- Direction under the Building Act 1984: Dispensation for cavity trays
- Directions under the Building Act 1984 for telecommunications related building work, Circular 02/2026
- Guide to determinations and appeals under the Building Act 1984
- Insurance Schemes for Approved Inspectors pursuant to section 47(6) of the Building Act 1984
Building Safety Act 2022
2022 edition
Current edition
Fire Safety Act 2021
2021 edition
Current edition
Party Wall etc. Act 1996
1996 edition
The Building Regulations 2010
2010 edition
Current edition
Related circulars and guidance
- Building (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/466)
- Building (Amendment) Regulations 2011
- Building (Amendment) Regulations 2014
- Building (Amendment) Regulations 2018: Circular 02/2018
- Building (Amendment) Regulations 2021: circular 01/2021
- Building Regulations &c (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2013
- Building Regulations 2010
- Building Regulations 2010 and Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2010
- Building Regulations etc. (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2021: circular 02/2021
- Circular 01/2017: Building (Amendment) Regulations 2017
- Circular letter on Building (Amendment) Regulations 2018
- Circular letter on Building Regulations etc. (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2021
- Circular letter regarding the application of requirement B4 of the Building Regulations 2010
- Circular letter: The Building (Amendment) Regulations 2022
- Further guidance on the 2018 Building (Amendment) Regulations
- Letter on Building (Amendment) Regulations 2021: circular 01/2021
- Regulation 43 of the Building Regulations 2010 and Regulation 20 of the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2010: Air Pressure Testing Schemes.
- The Building (Amendment) Regulations 2012
- The Building (Amendment) Regulations 2013
- The Building &c. (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and designation notice
- The Building etc. (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2022: circular 04/2022
- The Building etc. (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2022: circular letter
- The Building etc. (Amendment) Regulations 2023: circular 01/2023
- The Building etc. (Amendment) Regulations 2023: circular letter
- The Building Regulations 2010 and amendments to Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012
- The Building Regulations etc. (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3119) and associated documents
The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
2022 edition
Current edition
Related circulars and guidance
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
2005 edition
The Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999
1999 edition
Current edition
Procedure and circulars
2Building control procedure and approved inspectors
Circulars on the building control process, approved inspectors (to 2024) and registered approvers
No source document
Documents
- Approval of new scheme of insurance for approved inspectors
- Approval of new schemes of insurance for approved Inspectors
- Approved Inspector criteria
- Approved Inspectors: circular, 1 November 2019
- Approved Inspectors: guidelines for schemes of insurance
- Approved Inspectors’ Final Certificates and Regulation 17 of the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2010
- Building and Approved Inspector (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3384)
- Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment Regulations) 2009 (SI 2009/1219)
- Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) Regulations 2010
- Circular letter: Schemes of insurance for Approved Inspectors
- Circular letter: Building Control Performance Standards
- Circular letter: changes to the building control process
- Circular letter: changes to the building control process
- Circular letter: Scheme of insurance for approved inspectors - Lockton Companies LLP
- Electronic Communication of Building Control Documents
- Future of building control: implementation plan
- Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 section 317: time limit for prosecutions of breaches of building regulations
- New approach for achieving consensus between building control bodies and Fire and Rescue Authorities in building works
- Red Tape Challenge: local authorities carrying out building control functions outside their boundaries
- The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2010 Publication of the Approved Documents and Compliance Guides
- The Building (Local Authority Charges) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/404)
- Time limits for prosecution of breaches of the building regulations and the change of ownership of BRE Certification Ltd
Other building regulations circulars
Circulars on specific topics that don't belong to one Approved Document
No source document
Documents
- Application of building regulations where additional storeys are provided to existing buildings: circular letter
- BRAC letter on safety on staircases
- Building regulations and fire safety procedural guidance: circular letter 15 July 2020
- Building Regulations in England: circular 01/2022
- Building regulations: updated notices of approval for calculation methodologies: circular letter
- Circular 03/2024
- Circular 04/2024
- Circular 05/2024
- Circular letter on recladding of tall buildings
- Circular letter regarding single stair provisions in very tall residential buildings and applicability of the Approved Documents
- Circular letter: Building Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 2016
- Circular letter: Nearly zero energy buildings requirements for new buildings
- Circular letter: nearly zero energy buildings requirements for new public buildings
- Circular letter: Notices of approval for calculation methodologies
- Circular letter: wind-loading calculation for cladding
- Divisional circular letter about The Building Regulations 1991: caravans and mobile homes
- Energy Performance of Building Regulations (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/2363)
- New Green Deal Measures and Notice of Approval
- The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/991)
- The Future Homes and Buildings Standards: Building Circular 01/2026
- The Future Homes and Buildings Standards: Building Circular 01/2026 - letter