Team areas
As part of changes to how we deliver the Building Standards service, teams have been reorganised in to new locality areas. The teams are now based on four geographic areas in place of the previous five and are shown on map below.
The area teams can be contacted on these email addresses:
We also have an interactive map on our website which will allow you to search for the relevant team.
eBuilding Standards
The launch of the new eBuilding Standards service in August this year has been a big success and September saw almost 60% of all building warrant applications being submitted electronically – double the amount from the same time last year.
We’re keen to continue this trend, so if you haven’t started using eDevelopment then why not give it a go – it’s a single log in and can be used for both planning and building warrant applications.
Building Standards – advice and guidance
Our Building Standards web pages have also been given an overhaul to include links to general building standard advice, forms, guidance and how to apply online.
A key part of this is that we now ask that enquiries are made using the downloadable form. This will help us get the right information we need to answer your enquiry and help us focus on the more complex projects.
For smaller scale projects, the Scottish Government have produced a useful guide if you are thinking of doing building work or home improvements. There is also advice on the Local Authority Building Standards Scotland website for both agents and homeowners.
Delays Processing Building Warrants
We appreciate that at the moment there is a delay of approximately 10 weeks for first reports to be issued but we are working to resolve this and recruitment is well underway to help deal with this issue. Please bear with us as we work through this.
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