On Mon, 11 May 2015 20:29:04 +0100, TheChief wrote:

I expect I know the answer to this one, but does the planning
dept talk to building regs and vice versa?

Just a thought cos I am watching a programme about a castle built
surrounded by hay bales. The idea is to have the building in place and
lived in for four years, then remove the hay bales. The relevant
council has a four year rule after which they cannot demand demolition.

But the owner has not employed labour to avoid detection and just
has a few sketches to document the build, so presumably he also has no
building regs approval. This got me wondering whether the BR
department would actually check the planning status of a job they were
asked to inspect/sign off.

Phil

Not for that specific build, but as far as I can tell there was no
communication between planning and BR for our extension.

Further, there was no inspection by the planning department to confirm
that we had followed the plans. Once the plans were signed off their job
seemed to be at an end.

BR were just interested in proper foundations and drainage, and that we
had the structural engineering calculations for the steels plus an energy
assessment.

We saw no sign of any measuring taking place during the build - mainly a
quick visit to look at the foundations before and after the concrete pour
and a check that the new soil pipes were put in correctly.

There was no final inspection - the certificate just turned up in the post
one day.

Nobody has asked for a gas certificate nor an electrical certificate.

So not nearly as thorough or as joined up as we expected.

Cheers

Dave R



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