Building safety compliance in Reading
Reading has a growing cluster of high-rise residential and Build-to-Rent towers in its town centre.
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- Reading's registered higher-risk building count is taken from the BSR register.
Building safety in Reading
Reading has a growing cluster of town-centre and station-area residential towers, one of the larger high-rise stocks in the Thames Valley.
The local authority in Reading is Reading Borough Council. For higher-risk buildings, the Building Safety Regulator is the building control authority and holds the register of occupied HRBs - not Reading Borough 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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