Building safety compliance in Lewisham
Lewisham has extensive high-rise regeneration around Lewisham town centre and Deptford.
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- Lewisham's registered higher-risk building count is taken from the BSR register.
Building safety in Lewisham
Lewisham's tall-building growth centres on Lewisham town centre, Deptford and the Convoys Wharf riverside, alongside existing high-rise estates.
The local authority in Lewisham is the London Borough of Lewisham. For higher-risk buildings, the Building Safety Regulator is the building control authority and holds the register of occupied HRBs - not the London Borough of Lewisham.
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. Lewisham 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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