More Than The Sum Of Its Parts?
An opportunity to tell the government exactly what you think about Building Regulations ahead of the government’s promised overhaul of the system is currently being offered on the DCLG website. Taking the form of an online forum, the consultation exercise is part of a scoping study that has been commissioned to give the DCLG an independent view of what type of reforms are needed.
The Practice Department is encouraging architects to make their views known on the forum at http://forum.communities.gov.uk/achievingbuildingstandards which will be open until 13 December 2006.
The RIBA submitted its own detailed proposals for Building Regulations reform at the end of August (see Practice Bulletin 363), headed by a call to co-ordinate all building performance criteria into a revised and improved Building Regulations system. Key concerns of the RIBA are the increasing weight of piecemeal revisions and the recent trend towards overlapping of controls, particularly when exercised through planning.
The RIBA Practice Policy Paper, Improving the Building Regulations, is available at http://www.riba.org/fileLibrary/pdf/improving_building_regulations.pdf
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