The Building Safety Regulator is preparing to reject its most problematic legacy Gateway 2 cases as it formally exits the Health and Safety Executive to become a standalone body.

Gateway 2 is the BSR’s planning approvals checkpoint to ensure all safety-critical elements are fully designed, resolved and approved before physical work begins on higher-risk buildings. A new ...

Figures provided through a freedom-of-information request reveal that out of 187 new-build applications for gateway 2 approval, only 20 secured approval.

Contractor’s boss says learning from previous submissions and regulator’s ‘willingness’ to engage with firms helping speed up approvals Work on a new student housing tower in Elephant & Castle has ...

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has tripled its rate of Gateway 2 decisions but still has more than a third of its historic new build cases left to resolve in the new year, according to ...