25th January 2006, 07:07 PM
Can't see how it could be done at present. The fee for the planning application will already have been set under the county council's scale of charges and will have been paid with the submission, and site inspection visits will be deemed to be included.
The structural engineer, who will work for the district/borough, comes under the Building Regulations, not planning, and in my experience doesn't make many site visits - all their time is spent checking reams of jolly interesting sums. However, the Building Control Officer (Building Inspector, or District Surveyor in Inner London, in old money), makes a number of regular site inspection visits, at certain pre-arranged stages, looking at dpc's and drains and things. The fee for a Building Regs application is paid in two stages, one at submission, and another, the inspection fee paid by the contractor when work starts on site. (Of course these days you can use a private buidling regs person for plans approval).
The system could be changed to resemble the building regs system I suppose.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
The structural engineer, who will work for the district/borough, comes under the Building Regulations, not planning, and in my experience doesn't make many site visits - all their time is spent checking reams of jolly interesting sums. However, the Building Control Officer (Building Inspector, or District Surveyor in Inner London, in old money), makes a number of regular site inspection visits, at certain pre-arranged stages, looking at dpc's and drains and things. The fee for a Building Regs application is paid in two stages, one at submission, and another, the inspection fee paid by the contractor when work starts on site. (Of course these days you can use a private buidling regs person for plans approval).
The system could be changed to resemble the building regs system I suppose.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.