Pre Warrant Consultation Service

Benefits of the service

It is anticipated that this service will be of mutual benefit for the following reasons:-

• It will pinpoint areas where compliance is not being achieved at an early stage, thus reducing costly mistakes in the design process
• The process should encourage high quality Building Warrant applications. This will allow building warrant applications, to be dealt with as efficiently as possible
• The process should ultimately save you and the Council time in assessing/ approving your building warrant application
• A record of the meeting will be made to avoid ambiguity
• The service is free

How the service operates

1. Contact us, giving an outline of your proposals, to arrange a meeting. The meeting can be held here in Pullar House, or in certain circumstances may be arranged at one of the Council area offices or campuses
2. E-mail submissions will also be considered, although for major projects a face to face meeting is preferable. Please phone in the first instance to discuss
3. Depending on the nature of the development, we can endeavour to arrange joint meetings with other interested parties such as Development Management, Environmental Health, Scottish Fire & Rescue Service, etc, who may have an interest or input
4. The service is available by prior appointment only. For office meetings with Building Standards alone please allow a minimum of 5 working days, for meetings with other interested parties, a minimum of 10 days is required
5. For e-mail enquiries, the Council's published response time of 15 working days or where this is not possible we will respond in 5 days to advise of an anticipated response date
6. Any advice given will be without prejudice to the formal consideration of your proposals
7. A formal resume of the discussions will be issued to avoid any ambiguity