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Building safety compliance in St Albans

St Albans and the surrounding district have a stock of taller residential and mixed-use buildings needing Building Safety Act compliance.

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Key facts

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

Building safety in St Albans

St Albans has a largely low-rise, historic character, with higher-risk buildings concentrated in a small number of town-centre and station-area blocks. CTS is based in St Albans.

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