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Number of architects booted off Arb register rises by a fifth

By 2020-01-13T07:00:00

Karen Holmes, new registrar and chief executive of the Arb

More than 1,300 architects removed for non-payment

Arb removed 1,332 architects from the register for non-payment of fees, a year-on-year increase of more than 20%.

Overall, the number of architects on the statutory register has risen this year to 41,206. This means the proportion of architects who failed to renew their registration was the same as last year, 3%.

Arb registrar Karen Holmes said they acted quickly to remove people who did not pay to “avoid ambiguity over someone’s registered status”.

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