South Cambridgeshire Local Authority, yay/nay?

[Gema]

Hi, 

 

we are trying to decide whether to use Local Authority for building regulations or a private company. We are in South Cambridgeshire and would like to know if someone has had experience interacting with them (https://www.3csharedservices.org/) and they found them responsive or have some feedback.

 

Alternatively, if we were to use a private company for this, any recommendations for this side of the country? We have Act Surveyors, Delta, and Gateway building control on our short list.

 

Our reason to go with Local Authority would be that we've read that private BCAs are a bit hit and miss, so it seemed better to go with local authority. Until you read some of the posts here that have so many issues with constraint resources in some areas... At the end of the day, we'd like a BCA that's responsive, relatively fast to respond/iterate, and as clear as possible in their feedback.

[Dreadnaught]

I have used "3CSharedServices" for the building control for my (solo) self build in Cambridge city. I am currently at first fix and the next inspection is for completion (still some distance ahead).

 

I have been happy with them all the way through. 

 

Happy to provide more information if you like.

 

Dreadnaught