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Do I need to apply for a Building Warrant?
YES, If your work (or conversion) requires a building warrant then you need to know your responsibilities and which organisations you may wish to consult. Be aware that you cannot start any work or do a conversion until you have a building warrant.
If you are unsure about your responsibilities, you may choose someone else to act on your behalf (known as your agent). This person should be sufficiently experienced and qualified to help you through the building warrant process.
Depending on the nature of any proposed work, the authorities listed in this section may need to be consulted by you as the customer or the local authority building standards service. This may include those organisations listed below:
Customer
Consult where necessary with other organisations listed in this section prior to applying for a Building Warrant.
Local authority Building Standards Service
Consult where necessary with other organisations listed in this section prior to granting a Building Warrant.
1. Access Panels – for any building warrant application where there is public access to a building.
2. Care Inspectorate – where a building warrant application is for a building registered by the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care.
3. Health and Safety Executive – in some circumstances, local authority verifiers may wish to consult with the HSE to ensure before work begins that the health, safety and welfare of construction workers and other people with access to the construction site are not put at risk.
4. Historic Scotland – where a building warrant application is for a building that is designated an historic building.
5. Licensing boards of local authorities – where the building warrant application is for a type of building that will require a licence (liquor, entertainment or House in Multiple Occupation).
6. Planning authorities – where the building warrant application is for work of a type which may require planning permission.
7. Police Scotland – where security requirements may adversely impact on compliance with the building regulations.
8. Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) – where the building warrant application includes the introduction or alteration of a wastewater discharge where there is a risk of pollution to the environment.
9. Scottish Fire and Rescue – local authority verifiers should consult with the fire authority for the following types of building warrant applications:
• Non-domestic residential buildings;
• Non-domestic, non-residential buildings where the design does not follow section 2: Fire of the non-domestic Technical Handbook approved by Scottish Ministers;
• Domestic buildings with a storey at a height over 18m;
• Domestic buildings with a storey height over 7.5m but not over 18m where the design does not follow section 2: Fire of the domestic Technical Handbook approved by Scottish Ministers.
10. Scottish Water – a building warrant typically refers to the private drainage within the development and not to the public sewerage system. In certain circumstances the drainage system within a property boundary is public and is, therefore, the responsibility of Scottish Water. Permission is required from Scottish Water in order to connect to, alter or affect in any way the public sewerage network; and
11. Transport Scotland – where the building warrant application includes an access to a public road, including road openings, pavements, crossings, or temporary occupation of roads during construction.
Further information is included in section 14 of the Building Standards Procedural Handbook
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