2026 Retention Fee

You can now pay your 2026 Retention Fee through our MyARB self-service portal here. See guidance here.

Annual Retention Fee – The facts

Renewing your registration – The process

MyARB – How to guides

Your CPD declaration and 2026 Retention Fee payment must be completed before midnight on 31 December 2025

Welcome to Architects Registration Board

The UK’s regulator of architects

CPD Scheme

Learn more about the ARB Scheme

Record your CPD Activities

International routes to registration

Read more on the consultation results and our next steps to overhaul routes to UK registration for internationally-qualified architects

New guidance published

Read the new published guidance documents for the Architects Code.

ARB’s Strategy 2022-26

Read about our ambitious five-year strategy to modernise regulation of architects.

CPD

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Want to raise concerns about an architect?

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Concerns about title misuse?

Information for
Architects
and those wanting to Register

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The Register of
Architects

ARB was established by Parliament in 1997 to regulate the architects’ profession in the UK.

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Public

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Information for
International Architects

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Information for
Schools of Architecture

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Information for
Architects
and those wanting to Register

The Register
of Architects

Information for the
Public

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Students

Information for
Schools of Architecture

Information for
International Architects