Building safety compliance in Southwark
Southwark spans high-density residential towers from Elephant & Castle to the South Bank riverside.
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- Southwark's registered higher-risk building count is taken from the BSR register.
Building safety in Southwark
Southwark spans riverside towers along the South Bank and Bermondsey, major regeneration at Elephant and Castle and Canada Water, and a large legacy of post-war residential estates.
The local authority in Southwark is the London Borough of Southwark. 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 Southwark.
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. Southwark 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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