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STAGE 03 - Local Authority Assesses Your Building Warrant Application

An application for warrant or amendment to warrant should be accompanied by the information listed below:

Note: however that the verifier has discretion over the extent to which the information must be provided, so that minor work can be treated more simply.

 

1. General arrangement drawings comprising:

• a plan of the foundations, each floor and any roof;

sections through the building; and

• an elevation of each face of the building

Note: all to be at a scale not less than 1:100 (1:50 preferred), with drawings to a larger scale as necessary to show the particulars needed to determine the application and to show the relevant particulars set out below.


For all buildings (but see notes a and b:)

• The level of the site of the building, lowest floor and adjacent ground (including any road), all in relation to one another and some known datum.

• The position, materials and dimensions of foundations, walls, windows (including opening area and direction of opening), doors (including direction of opening), floors, roofs, chimneys and flues, ventilators and ventilation ducts, stairs, landings and balconies, protective barriers and such other parts of the building as the verifier requests.

• Details of construction including any frame and size and position of reinforcing material.

• Details of calculation of loading and strength.

• Indication of compartment and separating walls and floors and details of fire stopping.

• Position, materials and dimensions, including gauge or weight, of any damp proof course or other moisture barrier.

• Position of any sanitary facility or other built in equipment.

• Position, materials, dimensions and form of any drainage or ventilation pipe (including the line, depth and inclination and means of ventilation of every drain and the relationship to any sewer, sewage treatment works or other outlet into which drains are to discharge).

• Position, materials, dimensions and form of any traps, manholes and access openings. • Such particulars as are necessary to show that the works involved will be conducted in accordance with building regulations 13, 14, 15 and 17.

• The position and dimensions of any lift well, lift car, machine room and platform lift.

• The escape routes available as means of escape from fire including dimensions.

• The position of any ground hydrants, fire mains and fire appliance access.

• Any supplementary information, as requested by a verifier, so as to allow an application to be properly considered, such as ground condition or fire engineering reports.

• Any supplementary information required to meet the upper levels in any aspect of sustainability.

 

List For Application For Warrant To Extend

List For Application For Warrant To Alter, To Convert, Or To Provide Services, Fittings Or Equipment

List For Application For Warrant to demolish

​List For Application To Amend Any Warrant Under Section 9(4) Or 9(5) Of The 2003 Act

Supplementary Information

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