Staffing Crisis Could Threaten Building Safety Service at a Surrey Council

Staffing crisis could threaten building safety service at a Surrey council

The council has accepted the recommendations of the report and is working on the weaknesses

First official figures show BSR backlog rises to 36 weeks

The first official figures published by the Building Safety Regulator(BSR) cover activity from the end of 2023 to early 2025- and show that the average gateway approval waiting time on new build projects has stretched to 36 weeks The BSR backlog is only increasing, according to the organisation’s own official figures. Data from 1 October 2023 to 31 March 2025 saw only 338 of 2,108 total applications gaining approval. The 36-week wait reported in…

Nine month wait to get building safety sign-off for new builds, ...

When new regulations were introduced 18 months, planned target was to get decisions made with 12 weeks