Building Control

Building regulations are concerned with maintaining the health and safety standards of buildings, energy conservation and access and facilities for disabled people.

Planning permission does not mean that there is approval under building regulations and vice versa, so both must be obtained. We work with the national Local Authority Building Control (LABC) organisations.

• Inspects work submitted under building notices
• Deals with applications made by private sector Approved Inspectors
• Administers demolitions
• Provides technical advice and guidance to other departments including Planning, Licensing and Environmental Health
• Provides 24/7 out of hours dangerous structures service

• Deal with approximately 2500 applications a year
• Carry out approximately 6000 inspections a year
• Visit sites on the same day as the visit is requested, providng the call is received before 10.00 am
• Respond to dangerous structures notifications within 3 hours, day or night
• Voted the UK's most-improved local authority building control service in 2006
• Earned 98% customer satisfaction with the site inspection service and 94% for the plan check service

For more detailed information go to the main Building Control page

Page last updated on 22 January 2008