About BuildingRegsGuide
BuildingRegsGuide helps homeowners separate building regulations approval from planning permission, then prepare better questions for building control, designers, builders and registered installers.
What the site is for
The site turns common domestic projects into route prompts, evidence checklists and source-linked next steps. It focuses on England-first building-control decisions, Approved Documents, inspections, competent person certificates and completion records.
Where planning permission matters, the site keeps that section brief and points to UKPlanningGuide for the planning side. The two topics can overlap, but they are not the same approval track.
What it cannot do
BuildingRegsGuide does not grant approval, certify compliance, design structural work, replace a competent professional, replace an installer, or speak for a local authority or registered building control approver.
If your project involves higher-risk buildings, flats, unclear structure, major fire-safety questions or work outside England, treat the site as a pointer to specialist advice rather than a route answer.
How content is chosen
The launch set starts with the routes homeowners most often need before spending money: extensions, lofts, garage conversions, structural alterations, windows, electrics, heating, drainage, completion evidence and regularisation. Candidate SEO pages stay out of the sitemap until they have enough unique guidance and source support.
The practical aim is not to publish the largest possible site on day one. It is to publish a smaller set of pages that answer a real next question, connect to a tool or checklist, and make the official source trail visible.
Editorial standard
Pages are written around the decisions a homeowner actually has to make: whether approval may be needed, which route to discuss, who is responsible for certificates, what inspection evidence could disappear, and which official source should be re-checked. Pages that only restate a keyword without a practical next action should not be published.
Downloads and tools are treated as part of the guidance, not extras. A good page should leave the reader with a sharper project file: named risks, named evidence, named people to ask and a clearer split between planning permission and building regulations.
Launch status
This starter build is prepared for the domain buildingregsguide.co.uk. Until the domain is purchased and connected, use preview builds for testing and keep production DNS changes separate from content checks.
Before launch, the site should pass the local validators, load cleanly on a preview URL, and show the same source/version warnings that appear in the generated production output. That gives the domain switch a calmer, more reversible path.