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The Building Safety Act 'Higher Risk Buildings' Regime: When is a hotel not exempt?
12 October 2023
The Building Safety Act 2022, which came into force on 1 April 2023, established a new safety regime for "higher-risk buildings" (the HRB Regime).
Although hotels are generally considered to be excluded from the HRB Regime, in practice this may not always be the case and hotel owners, operators and investors need to act swiftly to determine whether the exclusion applies to their hotel and, if not, consider and account for their potential liabilities under the HRB Regime. This article looks at the application of the HRB Regime to hotels in England and when the statutory exclusion may not apply.
