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SW Building Excellence Awards 2023

South West Winners & Highly Commended 2023

This years winners within Cornwall:

Winner: Best Small New Housing Development

Edith Walk - Cornwall

• Project Team: The Bazeley Partnership Ltd, Claydon Builders Ltd, John Grimes Partnership, Energy Performance Services
• Local Authority: Cornwall Council

Winner: Best Residential Site Manager

• Lewis Paget, JS Construction Solutions Ltd

• Local Authority: Cornwall Council

Winner: Public Service Superstar

• Martin Pipet - Cornwall Council

Winner: Best Partnership with a Local Authority Building Control Team

• New Space Architecture with Devon Building Control Partnership
• ARCO2 Architecture Ltd with Cornwall Council

Again, congratulations all, and please feel free to spread your success far and wide by sharing the winners' page and if you're adding them on social media don't forget to use #LABCawards and @labcuk

Are you a regional winner?

Don't forget to book your place at the Grand Finals taking place on 19 January 2024

Changes to the Approved Documents

Revised Parts F and L, and new parts O and S of The Building Regulations came into force on 15 June 2022. Even if an application is deposited in advance of the 15 June 2022, all plots on that application must commence on site with valid work before 15 June 2023. If they do not, then the additional requirements of the revised Parts F and L, and new parts O and S of the Regulations will have to be complied with. This may need significant re-design, and plan re-check. 

Please note:

These transitional arrangements will apply to all Building Regulations applications where Parts F, L, O or S would apply.  This will typically include:

• ‘new build’ projects
• extensions,
• alterations,
• changes of use works, and
• any other controlled building work described in Regulation 3 where compliance with parts F, L, O  or S would be triggered.

Building Safety Act

The next step in ground-breaking reforms to give residents and homeowners more rights, powers and protections. Making homes across the country safer.

Find out more about the Building Safety Act.

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