Planning superviser - When is it necessary?

[Ted]

http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/cdm.htm

According to this site, the HSE should be informed if a build is likely to take longer than a month or more than 500 days.

On a build I am investigating, the contract sum is just shy of £300,000 and the builder has already done several months worth of work.

In the JCT Minor Works contract between builder and client, the Planning Supervisor bit has been crossed out...

Does this sound dodgy to you?

[lutonlagerlout]

most jobs we do ted last from 1 to 6 months,and i have never even heard of a planning supervisor ,just another bureaucrat that you dont need after the planners and BCOs
cheers LLL

[Ted]

It seems on a domestic job, it is not necessary to inform them as far as I can work out...

I would imagine they often aren't informed.

But this build was for a B&B, so I think perhaps they should have been informed.

Also, when someone has screwed up, you go after them with everything...

I'm sure you run a safe site and don't completely mess up the building work so don't end up with these sorts of problem!

[Tony McC]

A planning supervisor is, as LLL says, another bureaucrat and it's not uncommon for their involvement to be deleted in a MW contract. It simply means that the contractor accepts responsibility for supervision of all planning implications. Normally, we'd only involve a Planning Supervisor on complex developments, heritage projects, or highly sensitive work.