# The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025, Paragraph 3: Change control plan

Extent: E+W

(1) A change control plan must set out the strategies, policies and procedures the client has adopted to ensure any controlled change takes place under regulation 18 (change control), and to log each controlled change under regulation 19 (change control: record-keeping) including explaining—
(a) how proposed changes will be identified and to whom they must be reported;
(b) how the impacts of proposed changes are identified and considered and at what level in the organisation;
(c) in relation to proposed changes, the decision-making procedures adopted for agreeing a change including whose advice is to be sought;
(d) how changes are recorded and by when;
(e) the procedure to identify which changes require notification to the building control authority and which require a change control application;
(f) how the effectiveness of the change control plan will be reviewed by dutyholders periodically.
(2) In this paragraph “dutyholders” means the client, the principal contractor (or sole contractor) and the principal designer (or sole or lead designer).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1321/schedule/1/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/building-higher-risk-buildings-procedures-wales-regulations-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-3
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