Hey,
My flat entrance fire door and frame were damaged when the police forced entry to the property (previous tenant). The door no longer closes or locks properly and has been assessed as failing on all key fire-safety criteria, including integrity, smoke seals, and self-closing function.

Building is a higher-risk residential building (over 18 m in height and 8 storeys) so i guess i need permission from Building Safety Regulator.
But the process is asking for various documents i have no idea about. I'm using Chat GPT to create these but have no idea if this is even legal?

Can the contractor provide me with these? It's just replacing the door FD60 but now looking like its gonna take ages. Anyone else have to do this?
 

Documents being asked for

• Construction Control Plan

• Change Control Plan

• Mandatory Occurrence Reporting Plan

• Competence Declaration

• Site Location statement

• Reference file listing all uploaded documents

Considering how bad the situation is I'd consider it falls under Regulation 10 & get on with it and worry about the paperwork afterwards. Whilst put in place with the best intent unfortunately in the rush to put legislation in place post Grenfell they ended up with something over bureaucratic and severely under resourced and whilst you have the equivalent of no fire door at all (replicating the exact conditions that contributed significantly to the number of deaths) it's more important to keep people safe. If it was less severe a situation then you could wait.

 

Notification of emergency repairs to existing HRB

10.—(1) Where work to existing HRB consists only of emergency repairs and it is not practicable to comply with regulation 11(1) (building control approval for work to existing HRB) before starting the work, the client must—

(a)give a notice to that effect to the regulator, describing the work and the reasons for the urgency as soon as reasonably practicable after the work has started,

(b)send a copy of that notice to the responsible person as soon as reasonably practicable after the work has started, and

(c)submit a regularisation certificate application to the regulator in relation to the work as soon as reasonably practicable after the work is carried out.

(2) In this regulation—

“emergency repairs” means repairs to a building which are necessary to be carried out as a matter of urgency due to the risk to health, safety or welfare of persons in or about the building;

“responsible person” has the meaning given in article 3 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

Thank you, i was thinking as such