November 2025
Listen to Experts re: Gateway 2
Listen to our Associate Jayne Hall with other experts discuss navigating Gateway 2 at Architecture Today’s much anticipated webinar. It’s free to watch!
Around 70% of GW2 applications in the UK have been rejected.Hunters has achieved 13 GW2 and we will be submitting our first GW3 (RIBA Stage 6) in the coming weeks.
Overview
Jayne Hall’s session comes with a practitioner’s view on Gateway 2 from the coalface of project delivery. With four decades of industry experience spanning both design and building control, she reflects on how Hunters mobilised early to support the new regime. “We began preparing in 2022 and submitted our first Gateway 2 application in February 2024” she noted. Despite the statutory eight-week approval period, early decisions were subject to significant delays, and Hall reported a 16-week turnaround as “a good result” under the circumstances.
As both Principal Designer and compliance advisor, Hunters has submitted 22 projects so far, including new builds, refurbishments and re-cladding schemes, with a further 50 live. Jayne outlined the rigorous expectations around validation, stressing that incomplete or insufficient applications risk early rejection by the Building Safety Regulator. “The legislation is clear: starting work without Gateway 2 approval is a criminal offence” she warned, before talking through the extensive submission requirements, from construction control plans and change logs to mandatory occurrence reporting and declarations of compliance.