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Building regulation in England to provide guidance on the design and layout of universal toilets, ambulant toilets and toilet cubicles.
A guide to the types of development that will be exempt from the mandatory biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions)…
A fully searchable PDF of all the Approved Documents.
Find out about current competent person schemes to self-certify certain types of building work if you work in building as an installer.
Explains requirements of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017.
Guidance on what BNG is and how it affects land managers, developers and local planning authorities.
Find details of a building inspector listed on the register of building inspectors for England.
Explains the process for obtaining a lawful development certificate for existing or proposed use.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Advice on the role of the Green Belt in the planning system.
How to apply for building control approval from the Building Safety Regulator to construct, or carry out building work on, a higher-risk building.
Anyone in England or Wales can use this service to contact the Building Safety Regulator.
Building regulation in England for the condition of the ground upon which a building is to be built.
Building regulation in England for the resistance to the passage of sound and sound insulation.
How to access and use the coal mining information for England, Scotland and Wales held in the national coal mining database.
Explains how conditions attached to a planning permission should be used and discharged effectively
When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.
Building Regulation in England covering electrical safety in dwellings.
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