Building control fees!
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Administration of application, uploading application to Document management system, creation of invoice processing of payment. – 45 minutes
Receipt of inspection request, booking inspection in surveyors diary and uploading application documents to surveyors’ tablet on day of inspection. – 15 minutes
Travel time to and from property for inspection – Average 30 minutes in urban areas or 45 minutes if a rural property
Time on site undertaking site inspection – 15 minutes
Booking up and recording of inspection notes and photos on DMS in a format compliant with the BSR’s operational standards rules – 15 minutes
Generating of completion documentation and sending copy of completion certificate to dutyholders – 15 minutes
Closing application file and maintaining record for 15 years in accordance with local government document retention policy for future land charges searches – 15 minutes
Total 2hours 45 minutes
At £175/hour which is a common hourly rate for Building Control in the public and private sector that’s £481 +Vat or £577 with the Vat.
HTH
Receipt of inspection request, booking inspection in surveyors diary and uploading application documents to surveyors’ tablet on day of inspection. – 15 minutes
Travel time to and from property for inspection – Average 30 minutes in urban areas or 45 minutes if a rural property
Time on site undertaking site inspection – 15 minutes
Booking up and recording of inspection notes and photos on DMS in a format compliant with the BSR’s operational standards rules – 15 minutes
Generating of completion documentation and sending copy of completion certificate to dutyholders – 15 minutes
Closing application file and maintaining record for 15 years in accordance with local government document retention policy for future land charges searches – 15 minutes
Total 2hours 45 minutes
At £175/hour which is a common hourly rate for Building Control in the public and private sector that’s £481 +Vat or £577 with the Vat.
HTH
I recently ran a one off housing revite for a local social housing landlord.
Building notice fee was over £1k - a spotty faced youth turned up on site twice, didn't have a clue what he was looking at (thought an excavation for a new drain connection was for underpinning FCS!!) but acted as if he was some kind of construction god.
Never did a final inspection, just asked for photos and we finally got a completion certificate.
A complete and utter rip off. LA building control seems to be an utter s
t show everwhere now. I recall the days when you had pragmatic (many ex trade) BCO's who were helpful and would work around issues rather than taking a 'computer says no' approach by citing the section and sub section of the AD's. We now seem to have a team of inflexible college grad technocrats lacking the basic knowledge of real world construction, it's rank bad value IME.
Building notice fee was over £1k - a spotty faced youth turned up on site twice, didn't have a clue what he was looking at (thought an excavation for a new drain connection was for underpinning FCS!!) but acted as if he was some kind of construction god.
Never did a final inspection, just asked for photos and we finally got a completion certificate.
A complete and utter rip off. LA building control seems to be an utter s
t show everwhere now. I recall the days when you had pragmatic (many ex trade) BCO's who were helpful and would work around issues rather than taking a 'computer says no' approach by citing the section and sub section of the AD's. We now seem to have a team of inflexible college grad technocrats lacking the basic knowledge of real world construction, it's rank bad value IME.smokey mow said:
At £175/hour which is a common hourly rate for Building Control in the public and private sector that s £481 +Vat or £577 with the Vat.
HTH
A typical BCO is earning ~£50K/year, so around £30 per working hour? His/her £175 "hourly rate" is there to cover all the back-office expenses - you can't charge all those at the same rate. HTH
The thing is, the BR fees are so inconsistent.
Did a building conversion and extension at home recently and they'd quoted about £450. Bearing in mind it needed foundation work, steels, drainage, insulation, etc, it worked out stupidly cheap on a "per visit" basis.
In fact the BCO who came out the second time essentially told us to just crack on and not bother them until it was done.
Our local BCOs are pretty good, and very responsive, but the planners... whole different story.
Did a building conversion and extension at home recently and they'd quoted about £450. Bearing in mind it needed foundation work, steels, drainage, insulation, etc, it worked out stupidly cheap on a "per visit" basis.
In fact the BCO who came out the second time essentially told us to just crack on and not bother them until it was done.
Our local BCOs are pretty good, and very responsive, but the planners... whole different story.
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