The Building regulations are legal requirements designed to ensure the health and safety of building users, energy conservation and accessibility. The regulations themselves are in the form of a document known as a statutory instrument, which you can view online here. This simply states the regulations but doesn't itself elaborate or give guidance on how to comply or meet the regulations.

To give additional guidance, there are a series of Approved Documents published. These are technical documents which give much more information, diagrams, facts and figures to explain how it is possible to comply.

You can download copies of the current and forthcoming Approved Documents for free.