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Building safety compliance in Brighton and Hove

Brighton and Hove has seafront and city-centre high-rise stock, with ongoing cladding remediation.

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Key facts

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

Building safety in Brighton and Hove

Brighton and Hove has seafront and city-centre residential towers alongside a stock of post-war high-rise housing.

The local authority in Brighton and Hove is Brighton & Hove City Council. For higher-risk buildings, the Building Safety Regulator is the building control authority and holds the register of occupied HRBs - not Brighton & Hove 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. Brighton and Hove sits within one of the largest concentrations of these buildings in the country.

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

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