to Code are overseen by planners, not building control. So we have two regimes regulating technical requirements for new homes. That creates avoidable risk, uncertainty and cost. The second is that additional requirements are subject to local discretion. So, what is required in Balham, Bracknell, Basildon or Bolton could be different, leading to more uncertainty, cost and risk, which renders uneconomic some developments at the margin of viability.
The future Unfortunately, the preferred approach appears to be to scrap anything beyond bare minimum compliance with Building Regulations, and prevent anyone asking for more. A more rational approach might be to give responsibility for all technical requirements to those best placed to oversee them – building control – and allow them to specify any extra requirements from a national menu. This plays to the skill set of building control and planners and reduces risk, uncertainty and cost for housebuilders. Come May, we may be consulted again. We may have changes to Part L. We shall know once ministers decide.
● HYWEL DAVIES is technical director of CIBSE
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PART L TIMELINE
In April 2011, the Department of Communities and Local Government established a series of working parties to advise it on the 2013 Building Regulations consultation. CIBSE was asked to convene the working group on non-domestic buildings. The other three working parties covered domestic, compliance and enforcement, and consequential improvements, the last being run in conjunction with the Ministerial Forum on maximising the Green Deal, as, at the time, consequential improvements were seen as a fundamental means of driving Green Deal uptake.
These groups met several times through May and June, and reported at the end of June. The subsequent public consultation was then published in January 2012 and closed at the end of April 2012 (but the consultation on consequential improvements closed at the end of March to allow legislation to be introduced on 1 October). Subsequently, government decided not to introduce new requirements for consequential improvements, a decision which is now being challenged at judicial review.
Since April 2012, when the main consultation closed, there has been a dearth of information about progress, but DCLG has constantly assured CIBSE that changes to Part L will be introduced as planned in October 2013.
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