Commenced multiple sections of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 and established transitional arrangements for ongoing infrastructure applications and highway schemes.

These Regulations bring several provisions of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 into legal force on various dates throughout 2026.

The instrument activates sections concerning Natural England's advisory role, the transfer of transport functions, and significant reforms to the development consent process for infrastructure projects under the Planning Act 2008.

These changes apply to the Secretary of State, local planning authorities, Natural England, and applicants for major infrastructure developments in England and Wales.

Commenced legal provisions enabling local housing authorities to fine landlords for unaddressed category 1 property hazards and established the definition of qualifying residential premises.

These Regulations bring specific provisions of the Renters' Rights Act 2025 into force on 22nd June 2026, primarily concerning the enforcement of housing standards in England.

The order authorizes local housing authorities to impose civil penalties of up to £7,000 on individuals responsible for 'qualifying residential premises' that contain a category 1 hazard, provided it was reasonably practicable to remove said hazard.

It applies to local housing authorities, landlords, and superior landlords, and it establishes the administrative procedures for issuing, appealing, and enforcing these financial penalties while also amending the Tenant Fees Act 2019 to permit authorities to use penalty proceeds for enforcement activities.

Commenced provisions of the 2026 Act to implement the supplementary vote system for mayoral elections in England while exempting elections already in progress.

This statutory instrument brings into force specific provisions of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 concerning the electoral system for mayors.

It directs that elections for combined authority mayors and combined county authority mayors must utilize the supplementary vote system.

The regulations apply to electoral administrators and candidates in England, though they exempt any elections where the formal notice was published prior to June 18, 2026.

Adjusted the transitional inspection date in the Housing Health and Safety Rating System from 22 June to 23 June 2026 to correct a drafting error.

These Regulations amend the transitional provisions related to housing health and safety inspections in England by changing a reference date.

They ensure that the transitional rules for how dwellings are assessed by local housing authorities align with the commencement date of June 23, 2026.

The instrument applies to the Secretary of State and local authorities responsible for enforcing housing standards under the Housing Act 2004.

The Regulations instituted mandatory requirements for providing, retaining, and publishing detailed contractual control information related to specific registered land rights via the Land Registrar, effective April 2027, enforced through registration sanctions.

These Regulations, made under the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023, establish mandatory requirements for providing specific 'contractual control information' concerning certain types of restrictive agreements affecting registered land in England and Wales to the Chief Land Registrar, with a commencement date of April 6th, 2027.

The rules define what constitutes a 'contractual control right' (such as options, rights of pre-emption, or contingent dispositions), establish timetables and methods (via conveyancers) for submitting this data upon creation, assignment, or variation, and mandate that the Registrar retain and publish this information in a dataset, subject to certain exemptions like national security or short-term rights.

These Regulations amended the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (England) Regulations 2005 by simplifying hazard scoring, redefining fire hazards, replacing the A-J band structure with High, Medium, and Low bands, renaming the classes of harm, and updating the specified hazard conditions within Schedule 1.

These Regulations, made under the Housing Act 2004, amend the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (England) Regulations 2005 to simplify and clarify the methodology used by local authorities to assess housing hazards and determine if they constitute a Category 1 or Category 2 hazard.

Key changes involve redefining prescribed fire hazards to explicitly cover risks like explosions and structural collapse due to fire, simplifying the hazard seriousness scoring tables, replacing the previous A-J hazard bands with High, Medium, and Low categories, renaming the four classes of harm (I to IV become Extreme to Moderate), and updating the detailed list of specific hazards found in Schedule 1, while providing a transitional rule ensuring the amendments only apply to inspections commenced on or after June 22nd, 2026.

The regulations amended the Infrastructure Planning (Fees) Regulations 2010 by inserting definitions for 'the land' and 'local authority' and designating the host local authority as a Prescribed Public Authority eligible to charge fees.

The Infrastructure Planning (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 modify the existing 2010 Regulations concerning fees for nationally significant infrastructure projects, primarily by inserting standardized definitions for 'the land' and 'local authority' into the rules and by explicitly recognizing the local authority in whose area the land is situated as a Prescribed Public Authority entitled to charge fees for relevant services, with the regulations generally applying to England and Wales and specifically to cross-country oil or gas pipelines involving Scotland.

The Regulations amended the 2023 rules governing the Responsible Actors Scheme by correcting language, omitting a prohibition notice, and modifying exceptions related to building control prohibitions for various building works and property transfers.

These 2026 Regulations amend the 2023 Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations to correct defects, clarify criteria for membership invitations into the Responsible Actors Scheme, remove an obsolete prohibition notice requirement, and adjust the scope of building control prohibitions and their exceptions concerning emergency work, work on occupied buildings, and property purchasers.