Ryan

you dont always need a set of detailed plans for building regs if you want to make a start quickly as you can go down the building notice route instead.

I prefer this way as the building regs officer makes a visit at various stages of the build and approves it as you go along. Your talking a month at least to get a set of detailed plans done then a good few weeks after while they are waiting approval, using the building notice you can make a start within days of submitting the application and no drawings are needed.

You will rely more on your builder to spec the build as he goes along and you will have to pay him to set it out initially. As long as its a traditional build any good builder will be happy to use the building notice process.

This way as changes happen which they always do, you dont have to keep altering your plans and re submitting them either