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Building Control Glossary
Glossary of Terms
- Approval notice
- A notice issued by a local authority where they consider that the plans show that the work would comply with building regulations
- Building control officer
- Another name for a building control surveyor
- Building inspector
- Another name for a building control surveyor
- Building notice
- A building regulation submission which does not include full plans of the work
- Building regulations submission
- A notice of intention to carry out work, and full plans or a building notice, and the appropriate charge payment, submitted prior to commencement of work
- Charges
- Fees charged for building control
- Completion certificate
- A certificate issued by a local authority on completion, indicating that work complies with building regulations
- DSA District Surveyors Association
- the only organisation representing the exclusive interests of local authority building control, some 4000 professionals in 378 local authorities
- Full plans
- A building regulation submission which includes full plans of the work where it is intended that the plans be vetted for compliance and approved or rejected
- Inspection charge
- A fee for building control work due after the first inspection of the work has been carried out; the fee covers all necessary inspections of that work
- LABC Services
- Local Authority Building Control Services, the marketing and promotion arm of the DSA
- LANTAC
- Local Authority National Type Approval Confederation
- Plan charge
- A fee for building control work due when full plans are submitted
- Plan vetting
- The process of checking plans submitted for compliance with building regulations, by a building control surveyor
- Refusal notice
- Another name for a rejection notice
- Regularisation
- A process to regularise work which was carried out without involving building control, with the intention of gaining a completion certificate
- Rejection notice
- A notice issued by a local authority where they consider that the plans do not show that the work would comply with building regulations
- Submission charge
- A fee for building control work due when a building notice is submitted
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This page last updated: 05/07/2001
