Pre-application advice
If you are not sure if your work requires Building Control permission, please contact our Building Control team and ask for our pre-application advice service.
Fees
Fees vary depending on the type of building control application. Applications for wholly disabled works are exempt from fees.
View our building control fees
Types of building control applications
Please have all your information ready as an application needs to be made in one go.
Full Plans application
The most commonly used type of application and can be used for most types of building work and building use.
Requires the submission of drawings, specification of works and where relevant, structural calculations. Please have these ready before starting your application. These will be checked for compliance with the Building Regulations.
To submit an application you will need to pay a £50 non-refundable administration fee which will be deducted from the initial fee.
The total cost of the application to cover checking of the plans and carrying out site inspections will be calculated and a fee payment request made for the checking of the plans. The application will not be progressed until initial fee is paid.
On commencement of the work a second fee will be due to cover the cost of site inspections and the issuing of a completion certificate. An invoice will be issued to the client.
Find out more about Full Plans applications
Building Notice
For use on small scale building work to residential buildings (not including work which affects the communal areas of flats). Also not to be used where the building is, or will be once the work is finished, a place of work.
Does not require drawings etc, but other details maybe requested later.
To submit an application you will need to pay a £50 non-refundable administration fee.
The total cost of the application will be calculated and a fee payment request will be made later, less the administration fee. The application will not be progressed until initial fee is paid.
This one-off fee covers the whole building Control process including site inspections and the issue of the Completion Certificate.
Find our more about Building Notices
Make a Building Notice application
Regularisation
This is a special type of application and is only to be used where building work has been carried out without the submission of a full plans application or a building notice application or the serving of an Initial Notice by an Approved Inspector.
You may need to open up completed building works so we can see if the building regulations have been met.
There is no administration fee.
The total cost of the application will be calculated and a fee request will be made later.
Find our more about regularisation
Make a Regularisation application
What happens next?
We will check your application, if anything is missing we will contact you within two working days by email to request this. The application fee will be calculated and sent to you by email to make an online payment.
Once this has been paid and all information received, we will send you an email with the application number and our surveyor's contact details to allow you to book the building inspections.
Apply by post or by email
If you are unable to apply online, please email information@sevenoaks.gov.uk to request a PDF application form.