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Building Regulation - Statutory Amendments
EveryoneStatutory changes to the building regulations, March 2015 including changes to approved inspector notices
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Member Document: BC Transformation - Business Case Template
MembersThis document is part of our suite of research-based toolkits and best practise guidance for transforming your local authority building control service. The pre-packaged toolkits and guidance documents are designed to help you control the future delivery of your building control service.
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Building control senior managers, Surveyors, Members, Member's legislative & management
Member Document: BC Transformation - Greenbook Case Model Templates
MembersThis document is part of our suite of research-based toolkits and best practise guidance for transforming your local authority building control service. The pre-packaged toolkits and guidance documents are designed to help you control the future delivery of your building control service.
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Building control senior managers, Surveyors, Members, Member's legislative & management, Research
Member Document: BC Transformation - Greenbook Supplementary Guidance
MembersThis document is part of our suite of research-based toolkits and best practise guidance for transforming your local authority building control service. The pre-packaged toolkits and guidance documents are designed to help you control the future delivery of your building control service.
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Building control senior managers, Surveyors, Members, Member's legislative & management
Member Document: BC Transformation - Supporting Public Service Transformation HMTreasury
MembersThis document is part of our suite of research-based toolkits and best practise guidance for transforming your local authority building control service. The pre-packaged toolkits and guidance documents are designed to help you control the future delivery of your building control service.
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Building control senior managers, Surveyors, Members, Member's legislative & management
Approved Document Q – Security (2015 Edition) – England only
EveryonePart of a set of official documents that support the technical parts of the building regulations. Part Q focuses on security of dwellings. This is the 2015 edition for England effective from 1st October 2015.
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Building control senior managers, External publications, Surveyors, Small builders, Large builders, Learning & development, Technical articles, Everyone, Homeowners, Technical guides, Technical
Housing Standards Review and Optional Requirements: What planners need to know
EveryoneThis PDF presentation is aimed specifically at Planning and Development Control Officers to advise on the outcomes of the Housing Standards Review, and the technical standards Planning may invoke through ‘optional requirements’ of the Building Regulations. This essential reading will help to alleviate problems between Planning, Building Control and Developers by outlining the site-wide and dwelling-specific issues contained in the new regulations.
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Building control senior managers, Surveyors, Small builders, Large builders, Everyone, Homeowners, Technical guides, Member's legislative & management
Approved Document B volume 1 – Fire safety in dwellinghouses (2006 edition with 2016 updates) – Wales only
EveryonePart of a set of official documents that support the technical parts of the building regulations. This is the 2006 Edition of Approved Document B (Fire Safety) for Wales, incorporating the 2010 and 2016 amendments. This document is effective from the 1st January 2016.
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Building control senior managers, External publications, Surveyors, Small builders, Large builders, Everyone, Homeowners, Technical guides, Technical
Approved Document B volume 2 – Fire safety in buildings other than dwellinghouses (2006 edition with 2016 updates) – Wales only
EveryonePart of a set of official documents that support the technical parts of the building regulations. Part B volume 2, focuses on fire safety in buildings other than dwelling houses. Topics include means of warning and escape, internal fire spreading ( linings), internal fire spread ( structure), external fire spread, access and facilities for the fire services. This is the 2006 Edition of Approved Document B (Fire Safety) for Wales, incorporating the 2010 and 2016 amendments. This document is effective from the 1st January 2016
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Building control senior managers, External publications, Surveyors, Small builders, Large builders, Everyone, Homeowners, Technical guides, Technical
Approved Document E – Resistance to the passage of sound (2003 edition with 2015 updates) – England only
EveryonePart of a set of official documents that support the technical parts of the building regulations. Part E focuses on resistance to the passage of sound. Includes topics such as protection of sound from other parts of the building and adjoining buildings, protection against sound within a dwelling- house, reverberation in the common internal parts of buildings containing flats or rooms for residential purposes, acoustic conditions in schools. This the 2015 edition for England.
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Building control senior managers, External publications, Surveyors, Small builders, Large builders, Everyone, Homeowners, Technical guides, Technical