Building safety compliance in Southampton
Southampton has significant high-rise residential and waterfront development, with active cladding remediation.
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- Southampton's registered higher-risk building count is taken from the BSR register.
Building safety in Southampton
Southampton has a significant waterfront and city-centre high-rise stock, including towers around Ocean Village and the West Quay area.
The local authority in Southampton is Southampton City Council. For higher-risk buildings, the Building Safety Regulator is the building control authority and holds the register of occupied HRBs - not Southampton 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. Southampton 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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