Charnwood Borough Council

Site Inspections

The Building Regulations require that the person carrying out the building work gives to the Council the following periods of notification for the stage of work applicable. Notification can be by any means, eg. telephone, email, letter etc. and the Council's Building Control service operates a system whereby inspections will usually be made on the same day if the request to do so has been received before 10.00am.

It should be noted that the above notifications are a legal requirement, the neglect of which can result in the Council serving a statutory notice on the person carrying out the work requiring that the work is cut into, layed open or pulled down to the extent that is necessary for it to determine that the Building Regulations have been complied with. Failure to comply will also have the consequence that the Council may not be able to issue a Completion Certificate in respect of the work.

In addition to the essential notifications listed above, it is also paramount that the Building Control Surveyor is able to make inspections of any work associated with providing structural supports (eg. RSJs, lintols, etc.), elements (eg joists) forming part of a roof structure and also any essential items that would be hidden once plastering has taken place (eg. thermal insulating material etc). In individual cases, the Building Control Surveyor may request to inspect additional items of work, or to have sound insulation or air leakage tests, or tests on the watertightness of drainage sysems, carried out.

In the case where any electrical work has been carried out, this will require an appropriate BS7671 electrical installation certificate to be issued by a person who is registered as being competent to do so.