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The government is seeking responses to its White Paper on planning reform – 'Planning for the Future'.
The proposals would transform the planning system, meaning each local authority would have to produce a zoning plan dividing their area into ‘development, ‘renewal’ and ‘protected’ land.…
The government has recently announced a number of new housing measures to champion the rights of homebuyers and help ensure that when buying a new home they get the quality of build they rightly expect.
Update 26 May 2020: Natalie Elphicke has been chosen to chair the board that will get…
This relatively new scholarship aims to encourage advancements in the building control profession and the development of Building Regulations. Each year the Faculty of Building Control and Standards, together with the Local Authority Building Control (LABC), award £3,000 to the chosen scholar.…
With all the main political parties making significant commitments to increase housebuilding, LABC has called on them to recognise changes to the industry are needed if any of the pledges are to be implemented.
So far, the Conservatives have pledged to build 1 million homes in the next five…
LABC has made a major contribution to a cross-party Parliamentary group that has now set out proposals for a New Homes Ombudsman to help provide better redress for dissatisfied home buyers.
In its report, published on June 26 2018, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built…
The building regulations provide controls for building work to be done for health, safety, security, welfare, convenience, access for people in and about buildings and for energy efficiency purposes. The requirement for energy efficiency is laid out in, what is commonly referred to as, Part L of…
We've produced a series of 16 videos featuring LABC's Deputy Chief Executive Lorna Stimpson.
In them she answers a series of questions around the new performance standards framework LABC are introducing to help improve consistency of work in our network of local authority building control teams…
We have provided several articles on the changes to BS 5534:2014 (see the related articles to the right of this article.)
The most relevant implications are to the exposed areas on the external face of a roof, such as dry fix hips and ridge, tile fixings and battens. But there is a critical area…
The traditional approach used when two steel beams are provided to support a cavity wall has been to design the beams to each carry half the total load and then connect them with pipe spacers and bolts, even when the loading to each beam was not equal.
This view has been challenged by many…
LABC President, Jayne Hall and Chief Executive, Paul Everall joined parliamentarians, young people, supporters and celebrities at an event celebrating the work of children’s mental health charity (and our charity of the year), YoungMinds.
The Christmas event highlighted the achievements…