Application forms and online services

You can complete your building control application:

online via Submit-a-Plan or
by downloading and completing one of our applications forms

Guidance notes

Full plans submission notes

Building notice form notes

Regularisation form notes

Online application forms via Submit-a-Plan

Submit-a-Plan allows you to submit your application online, attach drawings, track your application and be notified via e-mail once your application has been approved.

Advantages of applying online:

24 hour access, 7 days a week
saves time and money - no printing or postage costs
works with all CAD applications
free to use
track and monitor your applications online
pay fees online

Test / demo applications

For those of you who wish to demo the system prior to committing to a full on-line live application there are the Try Test Application or Demo Application functions available on the Submit a plan home page. These facilities can be used as many times as is necessary for you to feel comfortable with the system.

Registering and logging In

As a new user of the submit-a-plan website, you will be expected to first register in order for you to open your own account, once done, this exercise will never have to be repeated. These account details will be held in a database and subsequent access to the site will be via a simple login procedure.

Registering your details is a quick and simple process which should take no more then five minute of your time. To register, simply click on the Register button on the submit a plan home page and follow the steps on the screen

Attachments / Creating plot files

At some point during the application process you will be asked to download the HP Design Jet 3000 driver. Once downloaded and installed as a printer into your CAD system, this printer driver will enable you to convert your existing drawing files into Plot Files prior to attaching them to your application.

These Plot files are zip compressed versions of your original files (less memory intense), these files can then be simply up-loaded into your Submit a plan application. In order to complete this process please follow the step by step instructions within the Submit a plan website, links to the HP website are provided.

Application forms available to download

BN Windows/Doors Application Form

Visit the Electrical Energy Efficiency Scheme website for further information about Part L.

Regularisation Application Form

Part P supplementary - Electrical installers information

Fees

EDITION: 9th May 2011 (Revised 13th December 2011)

Scheme of charges for building regulations work

Application Guidance Notes

Full plans submission notes

1 The applicant is the person on whose behalf thework is being carried out, e.g. the building’s owner.

2 Two copies of this notice should be completed and submitted with plans and particulars in duplicate in accordance with the provisions of Building Regulation 14.

Subject to certain exceptions where Part B (Fire Safety) imposes a requirement in relation to proposed building work, two further copies of plans which demonstrate compliance with the requirements should be deposited.

3 Subject to certain exceptions a Full Plans Submission attracts fees payable by the person by whom or on whose behalf the work is to be carried out. Fees are payable in two stages. The first fee must accompany the deposit of plans and the second fee is payable after the first site inspection of work in progress. This second fee is a single payment in respect of the relevant work to cover all site visits and consultations which may be necessary until it is satisfactorily completed.

The appropriate fee is dependent upon the type of work proposed. Fee scales and methods of calculation are set out in the guidance Notes on Fees which is available on request.

4 Subject to certain provisions of the public Health Act 1936 owners and occupiers of premises are entitled to have their private foul and surface water drains and sewers connected to the public sewers, where available. Special arrangements apply to trade effluent discharge. Persons wishing to make such connections must give not less than 21 days notice to the appropriate authority.

5 LABC Services provides a Partner Authority Scheme and also National Type Approval for a range of building types, building systems and major building elements where they are used repeatedly. If this proposal is to use the Partnering scheme please answer YES and provide further details, including name of the Partner Authority, in section 8. If the work proposed or any part of it is subject to a LANTAC approval please answer YES and enclose a copy of the appropriate current certificate(s). If there is any variation in this proposal from that shown on the LANTAC type approval plans attention should be drawn to it in a covering letter. Further information on LANTAC schemes is available from your local Building Control Services office, LANTAC, Local Government House, Smith Square, London SW1 3HZ or LABC Services, address below.

6 Premises currently designated for the purpose of the Fire Precautions Act 1971 are:- Premises within the Fire Precautions (Hotels and Boarding Houses) Order 1972. - Premises within the Fire Precautions (Facories, Offices, Shops and Railway Premises) Order 1989. - A workplace defined in Regulation 17(3)(a) of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 (as amended) i.e. any premises, not being domestic premises, used for an employers undertaking (N.B. there are exceptions).

7 Section 16 of the Building Act 1984 provides for the passing of plans subject to conditions. The conditions may specify modifications to the deposited plans and/or that further plans should be deposited.

8 These notes are for general guidance only, particulars regarding the deposit of plans are contained in Regulations 14 of the Building Regulations 2000 and, in respect of fees, in the Building (Local Authority Charges) Regulations 1998.

9 Persons proposing to carry out building work or make a material change of use of a building are reminded that permission may be required under the Town and Country.

10 Further information and advice concerning the Building Regulations and planning matters may be obtained from your local authority.

Building notice notes

1 The applicant is the person on whose behalf the work is being carried out, eg the building’s owner.

2 One copy only of this notice should be completed and submitted.

3 Where the proposed work includes the erection of a new building or extension this notice shall be accompanied by the following:

3.1 a block plan to a scale of not less than 1:1250 showing:-

3.1.1 the size and the position of the building, or the building as extended, and its relationship to adjoining boundaries;

3.1.2 the boundaries of the curtilage of the building, or the building as extended, and the size, position and use of every other building or proposed building within that curtilage;

3.1.3 the width and position of any street on or within the boundaries of the curtilage of the building or the building as extended;

3.1.4 the provision to be made for the drainage of the building or extension.

3.2 where it is proposed to erect the building or extension over a sewer or drain shown on the relative map of public sewers, the precautions to be taken in building over a sewer or drain.

4 Where the proposed work involves the insertion of insulating material into the cavity walls of a building this building notice shall be accompanied by a statement as to:

4. The name and type of insulating material to be used:

4.2 whether or not the insulating material is approved by the British Board of Agrement or conforms to a British Standard specification;

4.3 whether or not the installer is a person who is the subject of a British Standards Institution Certificate of Registration or has been approved by the British Board of Agrement for the insertion of that material.

5 Where the proposed work involves the provision of an unvented hot water storage system, this building notice shall be accompanied by a statement as to:

5.1 the name, make, model and type of hot water storage system to be installed:

5.2 the name of the body, if any, which has approved or certified that the system is capable of performing in a way which satisfies the requirements of Part G ofSchedule 1 of the Building Regulations

5.3 the name of the body, if any, which has issued any current registered operative identity card to the installer or proposed installer of the system.

6 LABC Services provides a Partner Authority Scheme and also National Type Approval for a range of building types, building systems and major building elements where they are used repeatedly. If this proposal is to use the Partnering scheme please answer YES and provide further details, including name of the Partner Authority, in section 7. If the work proposed or any part of it is subject to a LANTAC approval please answer YES and enclose a copy of the appropriate current certificate(s). If there is any variation in this proposal from that shown on the LANTAC type approval plans attention should be drawn to it in a covering letter. Further information on LANTAC schemes is available from your local Building Control Services office, LANTAC, Local Government House, Smith Square, London Sw1 3HZ or LABC Services, address below.

7 Persons carrying out building work must give written notice of the commencement of the work at least two days beforehand.

8 A fee is usually payable to contribute towards the cost of site inspections, being a single payment which covers all necessary site visits until satisfactory completion of the work in accordance with the Building Regulations.

9 The building notice fee is calculated in accordance with current fees regulations and is payable at the time of submission. A Guidance Note on Fees is available on request.

10 Subject to certain provisions of the Public Health Act 1936 owners and occupiers of premises are entitled to have their private foul and surface water drains and sewers connected to the public sewers, where available. Special arrangements apply to trade effluent discharge. Persons wishing to make such connections must give not less than 21 days notice to the appropriate authority.

11 These notes are for general guidance only, particulars regarding the submission of Building Notices are contained in Regulation 12 of the Building Regulations and, in respect of fees, in the Building (Local Authority Charges) Regulations.

12 Persons proposing to carry out building work or make a material change of use of a building are reminded that permission may be required under the Town and Country Planning Acts.

13 Further information and advice concerning the Building Regulations and planning matters may be obtained from your local authority.

14 This Building Notice shall cease to have effect from three years after it is given to the local authority unless the work has been commenced before the expiry of that period.

Regularisation guidance notes

1. The applicant is the building owner.

2. One copy of this notice should becompleted and submitted with plans and particulars indicating the works carried out.

Where Part B (Fire Safety) imposes arequirement in relation to building work a further two copies of the plans should be deposited.

3. A regularisation application must be accompanied by the appropriate fee, which is individually determined (VAT is not payable).

4. The appropriate fee is dependent upon the type of work carried out. Fees scales and methods of calculation are set out in the Guidance Notes on Fees which is available on request.

5. In accordance with Building Regulations the Council may require an applicantto take such reasonable steps, includinglaying open the unauthorised work forinspection, making tests and takingsamples as the authority think appropriate to ascertain what work, if any, is required to secure compliance with the relevant regulations.

6. These notes are for general guidance only, full particulars of a “Regularisation” request are contained in the Building Regulations and in respect of fees the Building (Prescribed Fees) Regulations.

7. Persons who have carried out the building work or have made a material change of use of a building are reminded that permission may also have been required under the Town and Country Planning Act.