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 Control

Provide advice, guidance and forms on planning permission.

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.