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If you intend to carry out building work, you are required by law to make sure it complies with building regulations. An application for building regulation approval can be made.
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Fill out the online Building Regulation Application form, upload your drawings and pay online. Our Free Online Application Submission offers quick and easy 24/7 access, submit, pay, and track your application.
Our Online Application Submission offers quick and easy 24/7 access to essential information and features an area where you can submit, pay and track your application (this requires pre-registration). The website also has a comprehensive Application Search facility enabling the review of any applications submitted and notifications under the competent person's scheme. Apply Online
Submit through Planning Portal
A national service for planning and building control applications, offering quick and easy 24/7 access, submit, pay, and track your application. Planning portal charge an administration fee for submission.
Planning Portal is the national service for planning and building control applications, partnered with all local authorities in England. The benefits of submitting via Planning Portal:
You can work on your applications in draft before submission
- Immediate delivery and acknowledgement of applications
- Online help functions for completing applications
- Online record of completed applications
- Single sign-in for planning and building control
- The ability to pull across key information from planning applications
- Fully compliant applicants, always up to date with latest legislation
- Simple online payment
Download a Form and Email
Download an application form and email together with your drawings to building@stgbc.org.uk or post to our office.
What will the cost be?
We set our charges locally within a framework set by Government. We aim for our charges to be fair and set them at a level to cover our costs only.
Please download our Building Regulation charges. Payment can be made either as part of our online service or a card payment can be taken over the phone, alternatively a cheque can be sent made payable to STG Building Control.
Any other fees
Please note that we may charge additional hourly rate fees for repeated site inspections. Currently the fee is £72.00 + VAT per hour or part thereof.
Any applications that have become inactive for a period over 12 months, there will be an administration charge to reactivate the file. The current fee is £85.00 including VAT.
This information is provided on the paper application forms, notified when submitting an online application and again in the Terms and Conditions which are sent out when an application is processed. The Terms and Conditions are also available from our website.
Electronic communication
We recommend sending all communications by email where possible. Any applicant / agent submitting their application online or by email is, by virtue of the The Building (Electronic Communications) Order 2008, and section 29 Building Safety Act 2022, to be communicated with electronically.
All communications where possible will be sent by email throughout the building control process unless notified otherwise and to reduce our carbon footprint.
