Paragraph 6 Information about the proposed workI1

England and Wales

Neither the notice nor the accompanying plans and documents include—

(a)

the location and a description of the work, including the use of any building to which the work relates;

(b)

information needed by the local authority to decide whether the notice is to be rejected on ground 10 or 11;

(c)

information as to whether or not the work concerns a new dwelling;

(d)

a statement setting out the date when work will reach the point when it is to be regarded as commenced and, if applicable, the details of the work which the client considers amounts to 15% of the proposed work;

(e)

in the case of an initial notice or an amendment notice in relation to a new dwelling, either—

(i)

a statement whether or not one or more, and if so which, of the following optional requirements applies to the building work—

(aa)

regulation 36(2)(b) (optional water efficiency requirement of 110 litres per person per day),

(bb)

Schedule 1 Part M optional requirement M4(2) (category 2- accessible and adaptable dwellings),

(cc)

Schedule 1 Part M optional requirement M4(3) (category 3- wheelchair user dwellings), or

(ii)

a statement that planning permission has not yet been granted for the work, and that the information required by sub-paragraph (i) will be supplied as soon as is reasonably practicable after that permission is granted;

(f)

in the case of an initial notice or amendment notice in relation to the erection of a new dwelling—

(i)

a statement giving details of any public electronic communications network in relation to which a connection is to be provided;

(ii)

if an exemption in regulation 44ZB of the 2010 Regulations is proposed to be relied on, a statement giving details in support of the exemption;

(iii)

if regulation 44ZC of those Regulations is proposed to be relied on, a statement giving details of the matters mentioned in regulation 44ZC(6)(a) and (b) of those Regulations and, if paragraph RA1(1)(c)(i) or (ii) of Schedule 1 to those Regulations is also proposed to be relied on, evidence of the steps taken to establish whether, and if so where, a distribution point for a gigabit-capable public electronic communications network (as defined in regulation 44C of those Regulations) is likely to be installed, in a location relevant for the purposes of paragraph RA1(1)(c) of that Schedule, within the period of two years beginning with the day on which the notice is given;

(g)

in the case of a plans certificate combined with an initial notice, a statement in accordance with sub-paragraph (e)(i).

F1(h)

if the work relates to the provision of one or more dwellings, or one or more bedspaces in purpose-built student accommodation, and the building which consists of or contains the dwellings or bedspaces is a residential building (as defined in regulation 7 of the BSL Regulations)—

(i)

in the case of an initial notice, the information F2required in accordance with the Annex to Form 1, in the case of an amendment notice, the information required in accordance with the Annex to Form 2 or in the case of a plans certificate combined with an initial notice, the information required in accordance with the Annex to Form 4 in Schedule 1, and

(ii)

in the case of an amendment notice, evidence F3required in accordance with paragraph 2 of the Annex to Form 2 in Schedule 1.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 2 para. 6(h) inserted (1.10.2026) by The Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1236), regs. 1(2), 29(6) (with reg. 1(5)(6))
F2: Words in Sch. 2 para. 6(h)(i) substituted (1.10.2026) by The Building Safety Levy (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/1034), regs. 1(2), 11(5)(a) (with reg. 1(5)(6))
F3: Words in Sch. 2 para. 6(h)(ii) substituted (1.10.2026) by The Building Safety Levy (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/1034), regs. 1(2), 11(5)(b) (with reg. 1(5)(6))

Commencement

I1: Sch. 2 para. 6 in force at 6.4.2024, see reg. 1(3)