The Building Regulations 2010

[F1 Determination of applications for building control approval with full plans E+W

14A.— (1) Subject to paragraph (5), where an application for building control approval with full plans is made in accordance with regulations 12(2)(b) and 14, the relevant authority must grant the application for building control approval unless the application (including the plans or other documents which accompany it)—

(a) does not comply with the requirements of regulation 14 (applications for building control approval with full plans);

(b) is not sufficiently detailed in any respect to allow the relevant authority to determine whether the proposed work would contravene any applicable requirement of the building regulations;

(c) shows that—

(i) the proposed work would contravene any applicable requirement of these Regulations; or

(ii) in a case where details are provided under regulation 14(1)(f)(vii), the work set out in the details would not in the relevant authority’s opinion amount to 15% of the work.

(2) If the application for building control approval with full plans (or any plans or other documents which accompany it) is defective or shows that the proposed work would contravene any requirement of these Regulations, the relevant authority may—

(a) reject the application; or

(b) subject to paragraph (4), grant the application for building control approval subject to either or both of the requirements set out in paragraph (3).

(3) The requirements mentioned in paragraph (2) are—

(a) that such modifications as the relevant authority may specify must be made in the full plans, and

(b) that such further plans as the authority may specify must be provided before work to which those plans relate starts.

(4) A relevant authority may only grant an application for building control approval with full plans subject to a requirement in paragraph (3) if the person making the application (“the applicant”)—

(a) has requested in writing the authority does so, or

(b) has consented in writing to the authority doing so.

(5) The duty in paragraph (1) is subject to any provision in sections 19 to 25 of the Act which expressly requires or authorises the authority to reject an application for building control approval.

(6) The relevant authority must notify the applicant of the outcome of the application within five weeks beginning with the date the application is received by the relevant authority, or within such longer period as at any time the authority and the applicant agree in writing.

(7) A failure by the relevant authority to notify the applicant in accordance with paragraph (6) is not to be treated as a grant of the application or a rejection of the application.

(8) A notice that the application under paragraph (1) is rejected must give the reasons for the rejection.

(9) A notice that the application is granted subject to a requirement must specify the requirement imposed.

(10) Where the application for building control approval with full plans is successful the effect is that the building control approval is granted.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Regs. 14-14C substituted for reg. 14 (E.) (1.10.2023) by The Building Regulations etc. (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/911), regs. 1(2), 8 (with regs. 22-24)