Copy completion certificates can be requested from our three individual councils. (A charge may be payable.) Please contact them below. To help speed up the process, give as much detail as possible, including dates, full address and building regulations application numbers.

• Mole Valley District Council - use this search facility
• Reigate & Banstead Borough Council - email landcharges@reigate-banstead.gov.uk
• Tandridge District Council - use the contact us form

June 2017 onwards

Southern Building Control Partnership is a council service, however we only hold copies of completion certificates that have been issued since June 2017. If you need a copy completion certificate from June 2017 onwards, we make a charge of £25 per certificate (payable before the certificate is issued). Please use our Contact Form to make a request and we will contact you via email to arrange payment.

It is helpful if you can provide the building regulations application number(s) in your request.  If you do not have these, use our free online search. Please allow five working days for us to respond to your request.

For applications deposited prior to 9 January 2013.

You should confirm the status of the application with your local authority. If a completion certificate was not issued when the work was completed Southern Building Control Partnership is unable to issue a certificate retrospectively. A letter which sets out the regulations applicable to your application can be issued. The letter will state the regulations that existed at that time and our position relating to enforcement action. Before using this service, and if you are selling your property, you should discuss this with your solicitor. 

For applications deposited after 9 January 2013.

Where a completion certificate has not been issued, the regulations allow the partnership to:

Assess the application and carry out further inspections. Inspections of this type can be complex and may require works to be opened up or rectified before a certificate can be issued. There is a charge of £150 for this service and for more details, please use our online contact form.

Alternatively

We can provide a copy of the inspection summary and a letter confirming the last inspection date and our position relating to enforcement action There is a charge of £25 for this service. Please use our online contact form.

Please check with your solicitor before requesting either of these services.

If your property searches indicate that you did not apply for building regulations for your project, and the work started after November 1985, you can apply for the work to be regularised. More information on Regularisation applications can be found here. 

The links below will direct you to the member authorities' websites. Please note there is a charge payable for a Land Charges search and you will find details on the individual websites.

• Mole Valley District Council Land Charges Search Service
• Reigate & Banstead Borough Council Land Charges Search Service
• Tandridge District Council Land Charges Search Service.