Scottish Building Regulations: Fire Safety review and Compliance: Call for Evidence
Compliance - Compliance Plan: pre-warrant stage
The Compliance Plan Approach for HRB’s has been developed to include a formal pre-application or pre-warrant stage, which must be completed before a building warrant application can be made.
Its purpose is to focus pre-warrant discussions on compliance and how the risks of non-compliance during the construction phase can be managed and mitigated. Discussions with stakeholders have included a proposal that the formal pre-warrant process begins with an application for a Compliance Plan in Principle, that this must be submitted a minimum of 12 weeks before the first submission of building warrant for the project, and that the process, ending in the issue of a Compliance Plan in Principle by the verifier, must also be completed before a verifier can legally register an application for building warrant.
The 12 weeks period mirrors that required for a Planning Application Notice for Major Development to be submitted before submitting a planning application.