To undertake any significant modification to your home, whether it’s an extension, renovation, and even new builds, you will need to seek building control approval to ensure it's up to par with the building regulations.
You will need a building control inspector to approve your building regulations and sign off certificate to the council. To do this you can go one of two ways, either private building control or through local authority building control. We’ll explain both.
To get this, you can either go down the route of using local authority building control, or you can use private building control to formally approve your house extension and issue a certificate to the council.