Building control services for Newark and Sherwood are provided by East Midlands Building Consultancy.
This is a partnership with Rushcliffe Borough Council and South Kesteven District Council to deliver a shared building control service.
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Building control approval
You may need building control approval even if you do not need planning approval.
Below are examples of the type of work that need building control approval:
- erecting a new building
- extensions
- underpinning foundations
- converting barns and domestic garages
- replacing windows
- removing walls
- creating new doors or window openings
- installing heating appliances and storage tanks
- erecting or altering chimneys, flue liners or flues
- structural alterations
- installing cavity wall insulation
- altering a roof space
- replacing a roof
Start a building control application – East Midlands Building Consultancy
Building control register
Building control applications are listed on the building control register.
Search the building control register
Building control inspections
Your building work will need to be regularly inspected.
This is to make sure that the person carrying out the work complies with building regulations before any work is covered up.