Building Regulation Applications
Full Plan Application
Building Notice Application
Full Plans Application
A full plans application needs to be accompanied by 3 copies of plans showing all construction details. The customer will normally receive a list of any amendments required, including solutions to overcoming any particular issues, within 21 days of deposit. A formal decision will be issued within 5 weeks, or, 2 months. The decision can either be:
- Conditionally Approved - If the building work is conditionally approved, further calculations and or drawings may need to be sent to the local authority.
- Approved - If approved, building work should be carried out in accordance with the approved plans.
- Rejected - If rejected, plans must be amended to the satisfaction of building control and resubmitted before building work can be approved.
Building Notice
- This application does not involve building plans and is ideally for small building work. However, further information and detailed plans should be submitted for larger projects such as extensions and loft conversions.
- Any building work relating to commercial buildings and containing a `work place` cannot be submitted under a Building Notice application, a Full Plans application is required.
- Where building work, including new buildings, extensions and underpinning, is proposed over a public sewer shown on the `Map of Sewers` a Full Plans application must be made not a Building Notice.
Last updated: 28 September 2006
