Services
- Planning and the environment
- Building Standards
- Building Standards - demolitions. defective and dangerous structures
- Building Standards - licences
- Local and statutory development plans
- Planning - applications, warrants and certificates
- Planning - consultations
- Planning - decision notices, appeals and enforcement
- Planning - listed buildings and conservation areas
- Planning - long term and area policies
- Planning - policies, advice and service levels
Planning and Building Standards
Planning & Building Standards provides the following services:
Building Standards
Building Standards was formerly known as Building Control prior to 1 May 2005 and is part of the Council's Development & Regulatory Services group. We are based in the County Buildings Linlithgow.
We have a wide range of responsibilities that relate to almost all building and alteration works to ALL types of property. The overriding purpose of building standards is to safeguard people in and around buildings.
Building Standards is independent from the building industry and is therefore an unbiased and neutral body.
We hope the information contained in the following pages will assist you in making an application for building warrant, obtaining acceptance of a completion certificate and understanding the role of Building Standards.
We also wish to make you aware of the need for regular maintaintenance of your property, not only to save you from unexpected and costly bills, but importantly to ensure that it does not pose a danger to the public.
We provide advice, guidance and forms on building warrants, completion certificates, letters of comfort, dangerous buildings, buildings in serious disrepair, unauthorised works, safety at sports grounds, raised structures, licensing and public entertainment licences
Building standards ?customer information? contains up to date information on the new building standards system and our performance levels.
Development Management
Provides advice, guidance and forms on planning permission (click here (new window))
Please note you can also apply for permission or submit an appeal throught the Scottish Goverment's e-planning website which can be accessed through the following link https://eplanning.scotland.gov.uk/WAM/ (new window)
Click here to view the current list of applications, consultations from Scottish Ministers and proposal of application notices. This list is updated on a weekly basis. If you would like to view the details of individual applications, or the weekly list of applications, please visit our online planning site. (new window)
Development planning and the environment
Provide advice on national plan policy guidance, structure plans, local plans, listed buildings, conservation areas, information & statistics and environmental issues.
Development Plan
The structure plan and local plan provide guidance on the location of development across West Lothian.
Supplementary Planning Guidance
The council has produced a number of SPG documents and developer contribution policies for applicants.
Building Standards
For building warrant applications, completion certificates, a "letter of comfort", or to report a dangerous building.
