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Building safety compliance in Birmingham

Birmingham's city-centre regeneration has delivered a growing stock of higher-risk residential and mixed-use buildings.

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Key facts

  • Birmingham's registered higher-risk building count is taken from the BSR register.

Building safety in Birmingham

Birmingham has a substantial and growing stock of residential towers across the city centre, Ladywood and the Smithfield and Digbeth regeneration areas.

The local authority in Birmingham is Birmingham City Council. For higher-risk buildings, the Building Safety Regulator is the building control authority and holds the register of occupied HRBs - not Birmingham City Council.

The remediation picture

As at 30 April 2026, 4,378 residential buildings 11m and over with unsafe cladding were being monitored in the government's remediation programmes across England - 55% had started or completed works.

Source: MHCLG Building Safety Remediation monthly data release, April 2026.

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