A median of 22 weeks for a new higher-risk building, at the latest count. The Building Safety Regulator publishes its gateway 2 performance every month as a slide deck, and each release is reported in isolation. This is the series: 9 releases from 24 November 2025 to 1 August 2026, assembled so the trend is visible rather than just this month's number.
The headline figure
22 weeks
Gateway 2 approval for a new higher-risk building takes a median of 22 weeks.
That is BSR's median approval time for new-build higher-risk building applications in the 12-week rolling period to 1 August 2026, alongside an approval rate of 91%. Gateway 2 is the mandatory stop/go point an HRB project must clear before construction can begin, so this is the wait a scheme has to plan around.
How this was read: Read from the 'Approval weeks' and approval-rate tiles of the new-build section of BSR's most recent monthly release. · Link to this figure
Citing this analysis?
PM Assist, "Gateway 2 Approval Times: BSR Performance Tracker", analysis of Building Safety Regulator, building control approval application data, 2026. https://pmassist.co.uk/gateway-2-approval-times
Each point is one BSR monthly release, plotted on the date its data was current.
Across the 8 monthly releases BSR has published since 22 December 2025, the rolling approval rate for new-build applications has climbed steadily. The rejection rate that dominated coverage of the regime's first year is not what the current data shows.
How this was read: Approval-rate tile from the new-build section of each release, ordered by the 'all data as of' date each release states.
External remediation work takes a median of 34 weeks to approve, against 22 weeks for new build, at an approval rate of 85%. The buildings waiting longest for a decision are the ones that already have a safety problem.
How this was read: Difference between the 'Approval weeks' tiles of the remediation and new-build sections of the most recent release.
These are live applications awaiting a decision. Each one is a project that cannot start or continue construction until BSR determines it.
How this was read: Sum of the 'In progress' (earlier releases: 'Live') tiles for the new-build and remediation sections of the most recent release.
Approval rate, median approval time, live caseload and decisions made, for new build and external remediation, from each of BSR's monthly publications.
| Data as of | Category | Approval rate | Median approval | In progress | Decisions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 November 2025 | External remediation | 32% | 44 weeks | 283 | 66 |
| 22 December 2025 | New build HRBs | 10% | 12 weeks | 102 | 31 |
| 22 December 2025 | External remediation | 44% | 43 weeks | 280 | 82 |
| 23 January 2026 | New build HRBs | 13% | 13 weeks | 111 | 39 |
| 23 January 2026 | External remediation | 47% | 34 weeks | 286 | 75 |
| 25 February 2026 | New build HRBs | 33% | 18 weeks | 123 | 27 |
| 25 February 2026 | External remediation | 48% | 31 weeks | 279 | 86 |
| 29 March 2026 | New build HRBs | 61% | 22 weeks | 135 | 31 |
| 29 March 2026 | External remediation | 61% | 36 weeks | 299 | 92 |
| 1 May 2026 | New build HRBs | 73% | 22 weeks | 143 | 33 |
| 1 May 2026 | External remediation | 72% | 46 weeks | 337 | 81 |
| 30 May 2026 | New build HRBs | 90% | 22 weeks | 131 | 31 |
| 30 May 2026 | External remediation | 79% | 39 weeks | 359 | 67 |
| 28 June 2026 | New build HRBs | 89% | 22 weeks | 138 | 37 |
| 28 June 2026 | External remediation | 85% | 35 weeks | 342 | 85 |
| 1 August 2026 | New build HRBs | 91% | 22 weeks | 131 | 45 |
| 1 August 2026 | External remediation | 85% | 34 weeks | 330 | 110 |
Every release and category as JSON. Free to reuse under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — please credit PM Assist for the series and the Building Safety Regulator for the source data.
Download JSONThe Building Safety Regulator publishes gateway 2 performance monthly as a PDF slide deck. We read each release and record the figures into a series. We do not model, adjust or estimate any value — every number here is printed in a BSR release, and each finding states which tile it came from.
Building Safety Regulator, building control approval application data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
That is BSR's median approval time for new-build higher-risk building applications in the 12-week rolling period to 1 August 2026, alongside an approval rate of 91%. Gateway 2 is the mandatory stop/go point an HRB project must clear before construction can begin, so this is the wait a scheme has to plan around. Figures are from the Building Safety Regulator's release covering data as of 1 August 2026.
Gateway 2 is the mandatory stop/go point in the Building Safety Act 2022 regime. Before construction can begin on a higher-risk building, the Building Safety Regulator must approve the building control application. Remediation work on existing higher-risk buildings goes through the same gateway.
Approval rates have improved markedly. Across the 9 monthly releases in this tracker, the new-build approval rate rose from the level reported in 24 November 2025 to 91% at 1 August 2026. Median approval times and the live caseload are shown in full in the table on this page.
Yes. The underlying data is the Building Safety Regulator's, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The series, comparisons and derived figures on this page are PM Assist's own — please credit PM Assist and link to this page, and credit BSR for the source data. The full dataset is available to download.
Most rejections turn on the quality and completeness of the information submitted, not the design itself. The same records become the golden thread the building must carry for the rest of its life. See the wider UK facilities management statistics, or the NHS maintenance backlog by trust, or browse all our research and data.