Building Safety Levy rates for every English collecting authority
The Building Safety Levy (BSL) commences 1 October 2026. Rates vary from £6.35/m² (County Durham brownfield) to £100.35/m² (Kensington and Chelsea greenfield) -- a 15× spread. Choose your authority to see the rate, example scheme costs, and how the brownfield discount applies.
298 authorities across England. BSL applies to residential schemes of ≥10 dwellings (or ≥30 PBSA bedspaces).
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Babergh £29.26Barking and Dagenham £42.47Barnet £63.35Barnsley £16.60Basildon £36.04Basingstoke and Deane £38.20Bassetlaw £17.93Bath and North East Somerset £39.20Bedford £34.23Bexley £48.00Birmingham £29.23Blaby £28.47Blackburn with Darwen £14.55Blackpool £15.57Bolsover £19.20Bolton £20.15Boston £21.00Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £35.29Bracknell Forest £39.76Bradford £17.45Braintree £33.12Breckland £24.42Brent £64.69Brentwood £46.58Brighton and Hove £49.60Bristol, City of £42.97Broadland £29.89Bromley £49.63Bromsgrove £34.48Broxbourne £40.70Broxtowe £25.90Buckinghamshire £38.78Burnley £13.60Bury £24.29
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Calderdale £16.12Cambridge £50.87Camden £87.12Cannock Chase £25.57Canterbury £36.38Castle Point £33.70Central Bedfordshire £34.01Charnwood £27.12Chelmsford £36.32Cheltenham £31.35Cherwell £33.56Cheshire East £24.77Cheshire West and Chester £24.85Chesterfield £18.75Chichester £39.98Chorley £20.27City of London £87.04Colchester £32.74Cornwall £29.58Cotswold £41.10County Durham £12.70Coventry £27.58Crawley £41.40Croydon £52.03Cumberland £14.63
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Ealing £66.47East Cambridgeshire £26.57East Devon £34.06East Hampshire £40.18East Hertfordshire £41.95East Lindsey £20.14East Riding of Yorkshire £19.85East Staffordshire £21.75East Suffolk £27.97Eastbourne £37.61Eastleigh £33.95Elmbridge £42.17Enfield £44.13Epping Forest £46.18Epsom and Ewell £56.62Erewash £23.72Exeter £32.35
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Hackney £71.51Halton £21.04Hammersmith and Fulham £91.87Harborough £29.47Haringey £66.66Harlow £39.75Harrow £59.88Hart £46.13Hartlepool £12.82Hastings £30.21Havant £34.83Havering £47.68Herefordshire, County of £26.94Hertsmere £47.37High Peak £27.43Hillingdon £54.66Hinckley and Bosworth £26.79Horsham £41.57Hounslow £58.29Huntingdonshire £29.12Hyndburn £14.83
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New Forest £37.01Newark and Sherwood £23.16Newcastle upon Tyne £19.71Newcastle-under-Lyme £19.79Newham £47.23North Devon £28.84North East Derbyshire £22.14North East Lincolnshire £13.76North Hertfordshire £36.90North Kesteven £23.29North Lincolnshire £16.95North Norfolk £28.44North Northamptonshire £25.97North Somerset £32.18North Tyneside £20.45North Warwickshire £24.51North West Leicestershire £22.55North Yorkshire £24.88Northumberland £16.77Norwich £30.63Nottingham £23.55Nuneaton and Bedworth £24.28
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Salford £30.35Sandwell £24.92Sefton £21.66Sevenoaks £42.15Sheffield £23.76Shropshire £24.68Slough £42.83Solihull £35.12Somerset £28.45South Cambridgeshire £37.95South Derbyshire £22.46South Gloucestershire £35.54South Hams £31.42South Holland £22.79South Kesteven £24.47South Norfolk £28.84South Oxfordshire £42.37South Ribble £20.13South Staffordshire £29.53South Tyneside £16.45Southampton £32.27Southend-on-Sea £38.24Southwark £56.93Spelthorne £51.62St Albans £49.55St. Helens £20.73Stafford £24.58Staffordshire Moorlands £22.09Stevenage £43.46Stockport £30.69Stockton-on-Tees £14.70Stoke-on-Trent £16.56Stratford-on-Avon £32.05Stroud £31.50Sunderland £14.26Surrey Heath £46.78Sutton £55.03Swale £31.72Swindon £27.06
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Wakefield £20.08Walsall £25.47Waltham Forest £59.97Wandsworth £68.50Warrington £25.88Warwick £35.65Watford £50.29Waverley £44.85Wealden £35.77Welwyn Hatfield £45.57West Berkshire £39.90West Devon £29.61West Lancashire £21.06West Lindsey £18.58West Northamptonshire £27.69West Oxfordshire £35.08West Suffolk £29.64Westminster £98.01Westmorland and Furness £19.79Wigan £20.22Wiltshire £31.61Winchester £43.26Windsor and Maidenhead £42.17Wirral £22.23Woking £48.54Wokingham £44.98Wolverhampton £24.41Worcester £29.74Worthing £37.33Wychavon £33.05Wyre £17.86Wyre Forest £26.55