Register of applications submitted for Approval under the Building Regulations

There is no statutory obligation on a Council to keep a register of prescribed information and documents concerning building control. Councils are currently required to keep public registers containing information relating to the building control activities of Approved Inspectors, but they are not obliged to keep information or documentation which they receive or issue in their own capacity as building control bodies (including information and documentation from competent persons). The Council has therefore followed, and will continue to follow, the practice of destroying all information or documentation submitted pursuant to an application after 15 years.

The only records that the Council has retained since 1986 are core information that comprises:

• A reference number The date that an application was submitted
• The address of the Property (at the time of application)
• A description of the Proposed Work
• The current status of those proposed works The date (if any) of when any Completion Certificate was issued.

To meet its obligations under The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 the Council has published the building control environmental information that it holds in the form of a viewable register that can be inspected on the computers in the Council Offices Reception area.