The Building (Registered Building Control Approvers etc.) (England) Regulations 2024

Information about the proposed work

6.  Neither the notice nor the accompanying plans and documents include—

(a) the location and a description of the work, including the use of any building to which the work relates;

(b) information needed by the local authority to decide whether the notice is to be rejected on ground 10 or 11;

(c) information as to whether or not the work concerns a new dwelling;

(d) a statement setting out the date when work will reach the point when it is to be regarded as commenced and, if applicable, the details of the work which the client considers amounts to 15% of the proposed work;

(e) in the case of an initial notice or an amendment notice in relation to a new dwelling, either—

(i) a statement whether or not one or more, and if so which, of the following optional requirements applies to the building work—

(aa) regulation 36(2)(b) (optional water efficiency requirement of 110 litres per person per day),

(bb) Schedule 1 Part M optional requirement M4(2) (category 2- accessible and adaptable dwellings),

(cc) Schedule 1 Part M optional requirement M4(3) (category 3- wheelchair user dwellings), or

(ii) a statement that planning permission has not yet been granted for the work, and that the information required by sub-paragraph (i) will be supplied as soon as is reasonably practicable after that permission is granted;

(f) in the case of an initial notice or amendment notice in relation to the erection of a new dwelling—

(i) a statement giving details of any public electronic communications network in relation to which a connection is to be provided;

(ii) if an exemption in regulation 44ZB of the 2010 Regulations is proposed to be relied on, a statement giving details in support of the exemption;

(iii) if regulation 44ZC of those Regulations is proposed to be relied on, a statement giving details of the matters mentioned in regulation 44ZC(6)(a) and (b) of those Regulations and, if paragraph RA1(1)(c)(i) or (ii) of Schedule 1 to those Regulations is also proposed to be relied on, evidence of the steps taken to establish whether, and if so where, a distribution point for a gigabit-capable public electronic communications network (as defined in regulation 44C of those Regulations) is likely to be installed, in a location relevant for the purposes of paragraph RA1(1)(c) of that Schedule, within the period of two years beginning with the day on which the notice is given;

(g) in the case of a plans certificate combined with an initial notice, a statement in accordance with sub-paragraph (e)(i).