The Scottish Government (Building Standards Division) are looking for your feedback about the local authority Building Standards service in Scotland.
They would like to hear about the quality of service you have received when applying for a building warrant and/or submitting a completion certificate. Views are sought on the customer service you have experienced as opposed to the actual decision on any application you may have made. More details and the survey can be found online. The survey will close on Monday 28 November 2016.
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.
Building Standards team boundaries
The area teams can be contacted on these email addresses:
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.
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.
From 24 August 2016 building warrant applications can be submitted using the new national eBuilding Standards online service. This will allow building warrants and other related forms, such as amendment to warrants, start of work notices and completion certificates to be submitted electronically using this new service.
The new site will have a number of benefits, making the process of submitting applications simple, saving applicants and agents time and money whilst allowing us to start considering applications sooner.
From 24 August both ePlanning and eBuilding Standards will be accessed through the eDevelopment.scot home page – a new Scotland wide service. With a single login for both planning and build standards applications this will make accessing and submitting applications even easier. The service will also have the added benefit of allowing a number of users to work together, sharing plans online in a single application.
eBuilding Standards flyer
The service available on the Council’s existing Building Warrant website will be replaced by the new eDevelopment service. Over the next few weeks there will be changes to the existing service in preparation for the switch over. Our website has more details on how this change will be managed.
So for now, we’d recommend bookmarking the new site and putting the date in the diary.
We’ll provide reminders and updates through the blog and Twitter as we get nearer to the launch date.
Planning Edinburgh 
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