Areas covered:

A 7 mile radius centred on N16 which includes:

London, East London, North London, West London, South London, E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, E10, E12, E13, E14, E15, E16, N1, N2, N3, N4, N5, N6, N7, N8, N10, N11, N12, N13, N14, N15, N16, N17, N18, N19, N20, N21, N22, N23, N24
Stoke Newington, Highbury, Islington, Shoreditch, Newington Green, Hackney, Tottenham, Green Lanes, Manor House, Turnpike Lane, Enfield, Wood Green, Highgate, Hampstead, Muswell Hill, Hornsea, Arsenal, Finsbury Park, Camden Town, Holloway, Kings Cross, Caledonian Road, Stamford Hill, Clapton Common, Upper Clapton, Lower Clapton, Seven Sisters, Tottenham Hale

A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF BUILDING REGULATIONS LONDON

1212 – Thatched roofs banned after a major fire

1666 – Great Fire of London

1667 – London Building Act – introduction of Surveyors

1707 – 1709 London Building Acts

London Building Acts – modelled throughout country

1844 – Metropolitan Building Act

1858 – Public Health Act

1858 – Local Government Act - Deposit of Plans and Drawings

1875 – Public Health act – DPCs, the structure of buildings, ensuring stability and prevention of fires, the drainage and provision of air space around buildings, to ensure health considerations Model By Laws consolidate Building Control

1905 – Model Bye Laws extended by parliament

1925 – Public Health Act

1936 – Public Health Act – British Standards as compliance indicator, Singe Model – voluntary (adoptive) not mandatory

1930 – London Building Act Contains the first party wall act

1939 – London Building Act – contains the amended party wall act

1945 – Water Act

1959 – Rights of light

1959 – Town and country planning

1961 – Public Health Act

1965/1966 – Building Regulations – mandatory (paid out of rates) – Repealed local acts and gave power to minister to make building regs

1984 – The Building Act – consolidated

1996 – Party Wall Act

2000 etc – Building Regulations