F1SCHEDULE 5Grounds for Rejecting a Public Body's Notice, or a Combined Public Body's Notice and Plans Certificate
Deficiencies in public body's notice
Form1
The notice is not in the prescribed form.
Wrong local authority2
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 body3
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
Information about the proposed workF14
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Lack of undertaking
Fire and rescue authority5
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 undertaker6
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
Drain connection7
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 enactments8
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.
Regulations revoked (E.) (6.4.2024) by The Building (Registered Building Control Approvers etc.) (England) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/110), regs. 1(3), 43(a)(i) (with regs. 44-47)