Building Safety Gateways Delays: Legal, Regulatory & Practical Perspectives

Introduction

Delays within the Building Safety Gateways regime can derail programmes, inflate costs and strain contractual relationships across the project team. This practical session will examine the causes of delay at each gateway, how to plan and evidence compliance to reduce risk and how to use contractual and regulatory tools effectively when delays arise.

Combining legal insight with real-world regulatory and technical experience, the session provides a holistic perspective on managing gateway risk in practice. Drawing on recent post-Grenfell developments and first-hand experience of Building Safety Regulator expectations - including common causes of delay identified through recent Gateway submissions - it is designed to equip construction professionals with clear, actionable strategies to maintain momentum while meeting statutory requirements.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• The Building Safety Gateways: scope, timing and key submission requirements
• Common causes of delay and rejection at each gateway, including regulatory and technical pitfalls
• Managing interfaces between the principal designer, principal contractor and other duty holders to keep gateways on track
• Document readiness: golden thread essentials, competence records and evidencing safety case information
• What the Building Safety Regulator expects to see in a compliant Gateway 2 application and how to present information clearly and effectively
• Contractual tools to allocate and mitigate gateway risks, including programme float, information release schedules and conditions precedent
• Negotiating and managing third-party dependencies, including building control approvers and fire authorities
• Practical strategies to reduce delays, including early engagement, structured submissions and design coordination
• Managing change, variations and regulatory feedback without losing programme certainty

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Tuesday 15th December 2026

Alternatively, you can gain access to this webinar and 2,400+ others via the MBL Webinar Subscription. Please email webinarsubscription@mblseminars.com for more details.