Issue - meetings

Report of Assistant Director - Planning and Development

Purpose of report

To formalise an Enforcement Policy for Building Control.

Recommendations

The meeting is recommended:

1.1       to endorse the proposed building control enforcement policy (Appendix 1).

Resolved

(1)          That the Building Control Enforcement Policy be endorsed. 

The Assistant Director - Planning and Development submitted a report to  formalise an Enforcement Policy for Building Control.

On behalf of Executive, the Chairman thanked the Building Control Manager and team for their work developing the Policy.

Resolved

(1)          That the Building Control Enforcement Policy be endorsed. 

Reasons

The need to formalise our enforcement process and practices has been brought sharply into focus by the emergence of the Building Safety Act 2022. To have a Policy will not only help the public but also our officers who come across breaches or have to respond to requests that enforcement is taken. Additionally, having a formal policy is very likely to become a requirement of the Building Safety Regulator.

Alternative options

Option 1: To continue without a formal policy. This would undoubtedly attract criticism from the Building Safety Regulator. It is also not equitable that the public continues to have no reference to the circumstances under which enforcement will be triggered.