Building Regulations

Alexander, Kaye

Building Regulations - 2009 - Architects' Journal 8(229) 5 March 2009, 41-42(2) .

Briefly summaries the advantages and disadvantages of the six key proposals of the Department for Communities and Local Government's Future of building control: consultation (L142913). Proposals include the periodic system of review of a three-year cycle, standstill of six months between publication and implementation, rebranding approved documents, project guides, give local authorities power to issue stop notices and impose penalties and extension ofthe pattern-book approach. Highlights responses to the consultation including the views of the Building Control Alliance formed in 2007 by RICS other professional bodies.


FUTURE OF BUILDING CONTROL


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