Regulations 22(3) and 25(3)

SCHEDULE 5 E+WGrounds for Rejecting a Public Body's Notice, or a Combined Public Body's Notice and Plans Certificate

Deficiencies in public body's notice E+W

Form E+W

1.  The notice is not in the prescribed form.

Wrong local authority E+W

2.  No part of the work described in the notice is to be carried out in the area of the local authority to whom the notice has been given.

Capacity of public body E+W

3.  The body on behalf of which the notice was signed is not a public body within the meaning of section 54 of the Act.

Deficiencies in information E+W

Information about the proposed work E+W

4.  Neither the notice nor the accompanying plans and documents include—

(a) the location and a description of the work, including the use of any building to which the work relates;

(b) information needed by the local authority to decide whether the notice is to be rejected on ground 7 or 8.

Lack of undertaking E+W

Fire and rescue authority E+W

5.  The public body will be obliged by regulation 23 to consult the fire and rescue authority before giving a public body's plans certificate or a public body's final certificate, and the notice does not contain an undertaking to do so.

Sewerage undertaker E+W

6.  The public body will be obliged by regulation 24 to consult the sewerage undertaker before giving a public body's plans certificate or a public body's final certificate, and the notice does not contain an undertaking to do so.

Deficiencies in the proposed work E+W

Drain connection E+W

7.  In the case of the erection or extension of a building, the local authority consider that, in order to comply with the requirements of Part H of Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations, a proposed drain or private sewer must discharge to an existing sewer, but the statement accompanying the notice does not describe such an arrangement.

Local enactments E+W

8.  The local authority are not satisfied that the work described will comply with any local enactment which requires or authorises them to reject plans submitted in accordance with building regulations.