Government UK has launched a public consultation paper setting out proposals and questions relating to charges for building control services provided by local authorities, open to 25 January 2026.
Government UK writes:
This consultation is being carried out in accordance with the requirements set out in 120B(3) Building Act 1984 and section 7(4) of the Building Safety Act 2022. The consultation covers proposals which would have effect only in England.
This is a public consultation paper setting out proposals and questions relating to charges for building control services provided by local authorities. The proposals and related questions are aimed at enabling local authorities to recover chargeable functions, as fully as possible, the costs associated with providing certain building control functions in the Building Act 1984 (as amended) and The Building Regulations 2010 (Principal Regulations).
The consultation contains one consequential proposal for amending the regulations for charges for the Building Safety Regulator, which provide some parity across those aspects of the charging regimes relating to charges when work is carried out that are required for disabled persons on existing buildings to which members of the public are admitted.
The consultation proposes to amend The Building (Registered Building Control Approvers etc.) (England) Regulations 2024 by extending the number of prescribed working days for which local authorities have to respond to notices and certificates submitted by Registered Building Control Approvers before such notices and certificates are deemed to be approved.
