# The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025, Regulation 47: Appeal of decisions

Extent: E+W

(1) The following decisions of the building control authority may be appealed to the Welsh Ministers—
(a) a decision to reject—
(i) a building control application for HRB work;
(ii) a building control application for a stage of HRB work;
(iii) a building control application for work to existing HRB;
(iv) a change control application;
(v) a completion certificate application;
(vi) a partial completion certificate application;
(vii) a regularisation certificate application;
(b) a decision to specify a controlled change as being a major change or a notifiable change under regulation 25;
(c) a decision to refuse a request to vary a requirement under regulation 30.
(2) The persons who may appeal the decision referred to in paragraph (1) are—
(a) in relation to a decision referred to in paragraph (1)(a), the person who made the application or the person on whose behalf the application was made;
(b) in relation to a decision referred to in paragraph (1)(b), any person to who the building control authority gives notice under regulation 25;
(c) in relation to a decision referred to in paragraph (1)(c), the client who made the request.
(3) An appeal must be made to the Welsh Ministers within 15 working days beginning with the day after the day on which the decision referred to in paragraph (1) is notified to the person.
(4) An appeal under paragraph (3) must contain the following information—
(a) the name, address, telephone number and (if available) email address for the person giving the notice;
(b) if the person giving the notice is doing so on behalf of a person who falls within the description in paragraph (2), the name and address of that person and a statement that the person giving the notice is authorised to give the notice on behalf of that person;
(c) the address and, if applicable, the name of the building to which the decision referred to in paragraph (1) relates;
(d) a statement which—
(i) identifies the decision to be reviewed (including the date of the decision and any reference number included on the decision), and
(ii) sets out the reasons the person considers the decision should be reviewed;
(e) any information that is available to the person giving the notice, that may have been relevant to the building control authority’s decision but was not available at the time the decision was made.
(5) The Welsh Ministers must notify the appellant of the outcome within 13 weeks beginning with the day after the day on which the Welsh Ministers receive the appeal.
(6) A notice that the appeal has upheld the decision must give reasons for that decision.
(7) If the appeal varies the decision the building control authority must issue a new decision.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1321/regulation/47 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-47
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