Planning permission/ building regs - Code 6

InsideInsurance

Watching rubbish on TV the other night and Grand Designs came on about a property being built where planning permission had been given with the requirement that they meet code 6.

A load of the requirements were around materials being used but also things like the treatment of the contractors, waste produced in the process along with items like having low flow taps, small bath etc.

At the end of the build the property is inspected along with the logs of the builders and it confirmed that it met the requirements.

Whilst I'm not planning on building a new house any time soon it does lead to the obvious question of what stops them immediately afterwards replacing the bath with an oversized one?

At what point would it ever be rechecked to ensure ongoing compliance? How do the "at time of build" type elements continue to play a part at later inspections as it was possible to put even more effort into things like providing contractors showers etc that'd have earned green points and allowed slightly less green elements in the house.

DoctorFoster

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Watching rubbish on TV the other night and Grand Designs came on about a property being built where planning permission had been given with the requirement that they meet code 6.

A load of the requirements were around materials being used but also things like the treatment of the contractors, waste produced in the process along with items like having low flow taps, small bath etc.

At the end of the build the property is inspected along with the logs of the builders and it confirmed that it met the requirements.

Whilst I'm not planning on building a new house any time soon it does lead to the obvious question of what stops them immediately afterwards replacing the bath with an oversized one?

At what point would it ever be rechecked to ensure ongoing compliance? How do the "at time of build" type elements continue to play a part at later inspections as it was possible to put even more effort into things like providing contractors showers etc that'd have earned green points and allowed slightly less green elements in the house.

Nothing, same with self closing fire doors on loft conversions.

InsideInsurance

DoctorFoster wrote: »

Nothing, same with self closing fire doors on loft conversions.

So why bother installing a bath or dishwasher etc at all? Leave a "gap" and get the green points left, right and centre rather than them having to have long delays and additional costs because they had to under order all materials and then reorder small quantities to avoid points loss for having excess materials etc?

Obv you need a toilet etc to make it habitable but I am sure there are some negatives that can be canned which would still get the house through the process.

molerat

It is a load of euro-box-ticking bollox as is the majority of "green" legislation. Does very little to actually save the planet and lines the pockets of a few trendy rich and getting richer by the tick individuals.