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Building safety compliance in Plymouth

Plymouth has city-centre and waterfront high-rise residential stock.

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Key facts

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

Building safety in Plymouth

Plymouth combines waterfront regeneration with a substantial legacy of post-war high-rise housing across the city.

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