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Communities and Local Government, how many building control applications received by the Building Safety Regulator were withdrawn at the applicant’s request in each month between October 2023 and April 2025.


Answered by
Alex Norris Portrait
Alex Norris
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
This question was answered on 23rd May 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  • Number of building control approval applications withdrawn at the applicants request between October 2024 and April 2025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Withdrawn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

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