We maintain high health and safety standards when buildings are being built or altered. We aim to 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 Building Control Technicians to deal with Building Regulations in the Dorset Council Area.
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 of 5 weeks or agreed extended period
- inspect your site on the same day if we get your call before 10am
- issue Completion Certificates on your project if all is ok
- provide guidance on local conditions and signpost to information and legislation
- 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, we will:
- check applications and advise you if the full 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 as required by legislation timescales
- provide information about the history of alterations to your building if you are selling your property and we have the records
- 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 all Building Regulation applications with Full Plans within five-weeks or your agreed extended time
- 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
- communicate to all parties as requested following site inspections and plans assessments
- our Dorset Council Building Control website provides information on how to contact the team, and how to raise issues and complaints. Also, details are provided about contacting the Building Safety Regulator.
What you need to do and your responsibilities:
- make a satisfactory building regulation application with all the information as required by the Building Regulations and Duty Holder requirements showing compliance with the relevant requirements
- ensure that you are employing competent persons to design and construct your building project to comply with the relevant requirements
- 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 use ladders, scaffolding and lighting in a way that provides safe access to the construction work
- 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/forms are completed and signed by all the required duty holders and sent to us at the required time -more information about these statements is available on our website
- 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
We are here to help you with your building project, but please take time to look at all our information on our website and your responsibilities as Duty Holders under the new legislation.
But always remember that responsibility for compliance with the relevant requirements of the Building Safety Act and Building Regulations rests with the persons undertaking the building work and the building owner.
Contact Building Control
See our contact details.