Recommendations: missing building reg compliance cert

mcbert

Hey,


Selling home now. When we bought 5yr ago I thought we got a cert of planning and compliance for extension, thats what the schedule of documests listed. But now that our current solicitor has seen it, he's notices that it only mentions planning, no mention of building regs at all, although he thinks it could have simply been a mistake by the person doing the cert.

Can anyone PM me someone that can inspect and issue a cert of compliance or would it be an opinion on compliance?


Dublin northside


Thanks.

Gumbo

mcbert wrote: »

Hey,


Selling home now. When we bought 5yr ago I thought we got a cert of planning and compliance for extension, thats what the schedule of documests listed. But now that our current solicitor has seen it, he's notices that it only mentions planning, no mention of building regs at all, although he thinks it could have simply been a mistake by the person doing the cert.

Can anyone PM me someone that can inspect and issue a cert of compliance or would it be an opinion on compliance?


Dublin northside


Thanks.

Can you go back to the person that signed off the planning compliance?
Did he inspect the build at the time?

mcbert

kceire wrote: »

Can you go back to the person that signed off the planning compliance?
Did he inspect the build at the time?

Previous owners got the extension done, I googled the name but didnt find anything useful. So no, i dont think so.

dusteeroads

The RIAI some time ago issued an advice note to its members not to issue Cert for b regs where the architect had no part in the construction process

A cert for planning involves a comparison of the built project vs what is on public record relating to the planning .
Any RIAI member can do this - whether they were involved before or not

If a vendor can't furnish all certs - he can "declare" this - upon legal advice.

The solicitor who acted for you when purchasing may have received a declaration from the then vendor that no opinion exists for b regs. in which case it seems your purchase progressed on that basis.

In law owners are primarily responsible for building regulation compliance anyway and you accepted that liability without the comfort of certification then.

You now ask another to do so.

This is all business as usual by the way , surprised you are not hearing this from your legal adviser.

mcbert

dusteeroads wrote: »

The RIAI some time ago issued an advice note to its members not to issue Cert for b regs where the architect had no part in the construction process

A cert for planning involves a comparison of the built project vs what is on public record relating to the planning .
Any RIAI member can do this - whether they were involved before or not

If a vendor can't furnish all certs - he can "declare" this - upon legal advice.

The solicitor who acted for you when purchasing may have received a declaration from the then vendor that no opinion exists for b regs in which case it seems your purchase progressed on that basis.

In law owners are primarily responsible for building regulation compliance anyway and you accepted that liability without the comfort of certification then.

You now ask another to do so.

This is all business as usual by the way , surprised you are not hearing this from your legal adviser.

But there was no such declaration, there was never any distinction made between planning compliance and regs compliance except the documents schedule referring to both when in fact the content of the compliance cert says nothing about regs - im only discovering 5yr later. I didnt accept any liability when we bought and am feeling misled now by my former solicitor.


My current solicitor has given me options one if which is to try to find an engineer that can issue something presumably based on a visual inspection.

Thats what I'm looking for here...


Im worried about the impact this will have on sale price or cause delays, so id like to be proactive in resolving it if possible.