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Building safety compliance in Sheffield

Sheffield combines large residential tower estates with new city-centre high-rise development.

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Key facts

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

Building safety in Sheffield

Sheffield combines large post-war high-rise estates with new student and residential towers around the city centre and West Bar.

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