We maintain high health and safety standards when buildings are being built or altered. We make sure buildings are accessible to everybody and designed to conserve energy.
We have a team of Registered Building Inspectors licenced at various Classes as detailed on the public register of the Building Safety Regulator. We have a fully resourced service of RBI’s and Technical Support officers to deal with Building Regulations in the Dorset Council Area.
Our service promise
When you contact us, we will:
- respond as soon as possible
- we have direct dial phone numbers and will answer your calls
- answer your questions in a helpful, professional and courteous manner
- full contact details of the whole team are on our website
- examine your plan within the statutory time limits
- inspect your site on the same day if we get your call before 10am
- issue Completion Certificates on your project if all work complies
- provide guidance on local conditions and signpost to information about Regulations
- provide advice on how to submit applications
- provide bespoke fee quotes on all projects
- provide suggested inspection framework
- respond to and investigate Dangerous Structure reports effecting public safety
Our charter
- check full plans applications and advise you if the plans do not comply with building regulations
- inspect building work in Dorset in connection with Building Regulation applications
- give you information about the required inspections
- give you the name and phone number of the registered building inspector dealing with your project
- keep records of building work in Dorset
- provide information about the history of alterations to your building if you are selling your property
- deal sympathetically with applications made after work has been completed if it meets building regulation standards
- provide team members to talk to you about building regulations on the phone as per our opening hours and contact details on our website
- issue a decision on Building Regulation applications with Full Plans
- signpost you to the regulations and guidance that you must comply with
- remind all duty holders of the requirements of the Building Safety Act and Building Regulations and their full responsibilities to comply with the relevant requirements
What you need to do
- make a satisfactory building regulation application with all the information as required by the Building Regulations and Duty Holder requirements
- ensure that you are employing competent persons to undertake your building project
- give us as much notice as you can about when you need inspections
- contact our Registered Building Inspectors before you build over any important part of the construction
- make sure you provide safe access for your Building Inspector to undertake the required inspections, and you use ladders, scaffolding and lighting in a way that provides safe access for Duty Holders to the construction work being undertaken
- tell us about any building work you have carried out without permission
- let us know before 10am if you are going to miss, or be late for, an appointment
- contact us before 10am if you want us to carry out inspections that day
- make sure all duty holder statements are completed and signed by all duty holders and sent to us
- send in all required certificates and photographs as required for your project
- make sure you have the permissions and completion certificates for work done before you sell your property
- your construction project must comply with all the relevant CDM Regulations and Health and Safety Regulations so that everyone is safe
- your contractors and subcontractors carry out work to comply with all relevant requirements of the building regulations and any other legislation
We are here to help you with your building project, but please take time to look at all our information on our website.
But always remember that responsibility for compliance with the relevant requirements of the Building Safety Act, Building Regulations and Health and Safety Regulations rests with the persons undertaking the building work and the building owner.
Contact Building Control
See our contact details.