Building Regulation Completion Certificate

middleagedriver

Troy_af said:

Out of curiosity, is this required because the property is less than 10 years old? Or is this required for any age property?

First home I bought was 6 year old and this was definitely raised in the enquires. However, the property im buying now has just went past 10 year old and this has not been brought up. So maybe it is not required after 10 years? If this is the case then the lack of certificate may not be much of a problem for you in the future, provided that you can find a lender now which accepts this of course.

This is our full enquiry so I assume it’s just houses under 10 year old.

‘As the property was built within the last 10 years, please provide copies of the Planning Permissions and Building Regulation Approvals including Completion Certificate, for the original construction, along with any New Home Warranty.’

middleagedriver

After speaking to my solicitor today and them telling me that it is very unlikely and they have never seen a Building Regulation Completion Certificate registered under a plot number only. I confirmed that indemnity policy was useless and then contacted Building Control at my local council. Literally 3 minutes later I had the certificate in my email inbox!

It's been 5 weeks that we've been waiting for that certificate, what are we even paying solicitors for if they can't even do the simple things. Took great satisfaction in letting my solicitor know this when sending them the certificate.

Thanks to everyone that suggested contacting the council direct.

Doozergirl

middleagedriver said:

After speaking to my solicitor today and them telling me that it is very unlikely and they have never seen a Building Regulation Completion Certificate registered under a plot number only. I confirmed that indemnity policy was useless and then contacted Building Control at my local council. Literally 3 minutes later I had the certificate in my email inbox!

It's been 5 weeks that we've been waiting for that certificate, what are we even paying solicitors for if they can't even do the simple things. Took great satisfaction in letting my solicitor know this when sending them the certificate.

Thanks to everyone that suggested contacting the council direct.

Well done!! Fingers crossed it's all downhill from here for you.  

I'm often frustrated by what some solicitors tell the posters on here.  I can't imagine how many sales collapse needlessly.   Your tenacity won out.  

middleagedriver

Doozergirl said:

middleagedriver said:

After speaking to my solicitor today and them telling me that it is very unlikely and they have never seen a Building Regulation Completion Certificate registered under a plot number only. I confirmed that indemnity policy was useless and then contacted Building Control at my local council. Literally 3 minutes later I had the certificate in my email inbox!

It's been 5 weeks that we've been waiting for that certificate, what are we even paying solicitors for if they can't even do the simple things. Took great satisfaction in letting my solicitor know this when sending them the certificate.

Thanks to everyone that suggested contacting the council direct.

Well done!! Fingers crossed it's all downhill from here for you.  

I'm often frustrated by what some solicitors tell the posters on here.  I can't imagine how many sales collapse needlessly.   Your tenacity won out.  

That is the hope but we now ‘may’ have an issue with the title when we register it at the LR. Trying to call out their BS by trying to contact Land Registry myself to see if it’s correct. It’s one thing after another with this house!

diystarter7

Hi

I may have misunderstood the OP's post but it reminds me of an apartment we were thining of buying in London around 2008/9.

The apartment was on a block of apartments in a town centre and below it was shops. The new apartments were an addition to the top of the block.. I can't recall exactly but the new apartments and possibly the block did not have the NHBC certificates.
We were advised it was "cash buyers" only - when we heard about that we asked what happens after the ten years and the EA did not know so we did not bother and I recall seeing quite a few of those apartments going to auction and they often sold for thousands less than similar i the area

Again, I'm not sure if this is similar to that of OP is going through but I felt it was but may be wrong.