What We Offer

The Council is committed to improving public services through the Government’s modernising agenda to make us more responsive to the users of the service. Building Control Services fully support the idea of setting out the standard of service you can expect.

It is after all only right  that you should know what you will get from the service for the money that you pay. The Building Control Manager will review the Customer Charter annually.

What we do

Building Control is a statutory service, which regulates the built environment. This includes the health, safety, welfare and convenience of persons in and about buildings, the provision of access and facilities for persons with disabilities and the conservation of fuel and energy. Through a variety of legislation it administers and enforces a framework of national technical standards covering the design, construction, extension, adaptation and use of all types of buildings frequented by people. These standards also include provisions for: structural stability: fire protection: means of escape in case of fire; drainage; sound insulation: ventilation; stairway design and glazing (NB this is not an exhaustive list of provisions)

The Building Control service can be split into three main areas of operation:

• the Buiding Regulation function;
• other statutory functions, such as public safety etc;
• and other related work, such as safety at sports grounds and events etc

For further information please refer to the Customer Charter below.

Related Documents

To view any published Related Documents for this service you will require the appropriate software. To download this software please see our documents help page. All links to documents will open in a new window. To request documents and files in an alternative format please contact us using the contact information provided on this page.

Related Documents

Customer Charter

To view any published Related Documents for this service you will require the appropriate software. To download this software please see our documents help page. All links to documents will open in a new window. To request documents and files in an alternative format please contact us using the contact information provided on this page.