Buildings: Safety
(asked on 15th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many building control applications were received by the Building Safety Regulator in each month between October 2023 and April 2025.
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 building control approval applications rejected by the Building Safety Regulator between October 2023 and April 2025
- Number of building control approval applications received by the Building Safety Regulator between October 2023 and April 2025
- Number of building control approval applications withdrawn at the applicants request between October 2024 and April 2025
Year / month | Rejection | Withdrawn | Total Received |
2023 | 3 | 6 | 69 |
October | 0 | 3 | 10 |
November | 0 | 1 | 24 |
December | 3 | 2 | 35 |
2024 | 175 | 124 | 1525 |
January | 4 | 11 | 67 |
February | 4 | 7 | 83 |
March | 9 | 10 | 102 |
April | 9 | 13 | 115 |
May | 17 | 8 | 135 |
June | 19 | 8 | 141 |
July | 15 | 17 | 136 |
August | 21 | 5 | 113 |
September | 25 | 11 | 148 |
October | 23 | 24 | 174 |
November | 12 | 5 | 150 |
December | 17 | 5 | 161 |
2025 | 30 | 11 | 615 |
January | 15 | 5 | 146 |
February | 9 | 3 | 174 |
March | 4 | 1 | 178 |
April | 2 | 2 | 117 |
Total | 208 | 141 | 2209 |