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Building safety compliance in Leicester

Leicester has a growing stock of high-rise residential and student accommodation in the city centre.

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Key facts

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

Building safety in Leicester

Leicester combines city-centre student and residential towers with a stock of post-war high-rise housing estates.

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