The building notice option for complying with Building
Regulations was introduced to permit smaller projects of a simple
nature to proceed without delay.
Drawings and any other details submitted with the building
notice application are treated for information only and
are not subject to formal approval or rejection. However,
Suffolk Coastal’s building control team may ask for additional
details or engineer’s designs at any stage to show that the work
will comply with Building Regulation standards.
As no formal approval is given on a building notice, you do not
receive the same protection provided by an approval of the drawings
under the full plans option. Completion certificates are issued at
the end of the work providing all the Building Regulations have
been met.
You may use the building notice option if:
- The building is not used for a 'relevant use'
and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 does not apply
to the work you are planning to do.
- The work does not involve the construction,
extension or underpinning of a building, which is being built over
or within 3 metres of a public sewer or disposal main.
- The work, which includes the erection of a building,
does not front on to a private street.
'Relevant use' means that the building is used as a workplace
and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies to it,
or it is listed in the Fire Precautions Act (this includes shops,
offices, hotels, hostels for hotel staff, boarding houses and
factories).
You must commence the proposed work within three years of the
date you give notice to the Council, after that your building
notice will no longer be valid and you will have to make a new
application if you still wish to carry out the work.
How to apply
Applications can be submitted by email, on CD, USB memory
stick and on paper.
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