Building Control Guidance documents

Our Guidance documents can be downloaded below, or you can |request copies to be sent to you.

|01 Getting plans right

|02 Good neighbour

|03 Neighbour consideration

|04 Traditional foundations

|05 Raft foundations

|06 Trees in clay subsoils

|07 Ground floors

|10 Timber upper floors

|11 External walls

|12 Pitched roofs

|14 Smoke alarms

|15 Escape windows

|16 Replacement windows

|17 Loft Conversions (General information)

|18 Loft Conversions (Detail information)

|19 Garage conversion

|20 Electrical safety

|21 Means of Escape

|22 Garden walls

|23 Surrey Act Section 19 (Guidance for professionals)

For details on translating these documents into other languages see the |translations page

Links

|Building Regulations and Approved Documents

|Department for Communities and Local Government

|Royal Institute of British Architects

|Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

|Association of Building Engineers

|Building Research Establishment

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