Building Control applications
Making a Building Control application
- What type of application is required?
- What is a Building Notice Application?
- What is a Full Plans Application?
- What is a Regularisation Certificate?
- How can you make your proposal more environmentally friendly?
What type of application is required?
There are two methods of applying for approval of building projects.
- For domestic alterations and extensions you can submit a Building Notice giving brief details of your proposals. This should be submitted 48 hours before the work starts together with the statutory fee and any drawings and details
- Works to shops, offices, factories, hotels and boarding houses must be made by the Full Plans route, so that we can consult the Fire Brigade to ensure that adequate Fire Precautions measures are provided.
Alternative for domestic works:
- If you wish to obtain formal approval for domestic works before the work begins you can submit a Full Plans application. Decisions can take up to five weeks.
- Once you have received Full Plans approval you should submit a Commencement Notice 48 hours before the work starts. The work is then inspected on site.
- From the 1st of October 2006, The Fire Precaution Act 1971 and the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 as amended have been replaced by The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Please view the Regulatory Reform Order below for further details (see attached files section below).
What is a Building Notice Application?
An application under the Building Regulations giving brief details of your proposals for domestic alterations and extensions.
- Should be submitted 48 hours before the work starts
- You may be able to start work earlier, if you check with us first
- Should include the correct fee and any drawings
- You will be required to submit additional information with the notice, dependant upon the type of work you are carrying out.
Contact us for application forms and further information.
What is a Full Plans Application?
Works to shops, offices, factories, hotels and boarding houses must be made by the Full Plans route, so that we can consult the Fire Brigade to ensure that adequate Fire Precautions measures are provided.
If you wish to obtain formal approval for domestic works before the work begins you can submit a Full Plans application. Decisions can take up to eight weeks. Once you have received Full Plans approval you should submit a Commencement Notice 48 hours before the work starts. The work is then inspected on site.
We require:
- Completed application form
- 2 copies of the drawings
- Structural calculations, if appropriate
- The correct charge, which we calculate using a government framework
We will:
- Deal with your application within the statutory 8 weeks, if possible sooner
- Only reject your application if there is a major contravention of the Building Regulations or insufficient information
- Apply conditions to approvals that require minor changes or additional information
What is a Regularisation Certificate?
The Building Regulations provide for a property owner to apply to the local authority for a regularisation certificate in respect of ‘unauthorised’ building work. This means work which was carried out on or after 11 November 1985, is over 12 months old and which should have been submitted to the Building Regulations procedures but was not. You will be charged for this regularisation service.
In assessing compliance the local authority may request the ‘opening up’ of unauthorised work. The authority will then decide if remedial work needs to be carried out, in accordance with the Building Regulations which were applicable to that work when it was originally carried out, before they can issue a regularisation certificate.
A regularisation certificate is evidence (but not conclusive evidence) that the requirements of the Building Regulations specified in the certificate have been complied with.
How can you make your proposal more environmentally friendly?
If you are about to submit a building control application for works to a residential property, why not consider how you could make your proposal more environmentally friendly?
Haringey Council has published a guide to Greening Your Home which provides information on how to renovate the home in an environmentally sensitive way. Positive changes could be made in many ways, from changing a light bulb or your boiler to larger scale renovation works.
A number of the changes suggested may require building control approval, so please check with the Council before you proceed.
Click here to view the Greening Your Home guide online.
Contact
Building Control
Planning Policy and Development
Urban Environment
639 High Road
N17 8BD
Tel 020 8489 5504
Email building.control@haringey.gov.uk
| Filename | Filetype | Size |
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full plans 06.pdf  | 426K | |
| building notice 06.pdf | 588K | |
| regularisation 06.pdf | 454K | |
| 2006 fees.pdf | 1027K | |
| fire safety.pdf | 92K | |
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Useful External Links
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- Local Authority Building Control (National Organisation)
- Department of Communities and Local Government
- London District Surveyors Association
- Health and Safety Executive
- Considerate Contractors
- Submit-a-plan
Update MePage Last Updated: 12 November 2008
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