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Building regulations are intended to protect people’s safety and welfare. They set minimum acceptable standards for new building work, including when a building is being designed and constructed, and are enforced through the building control process. All new building work, including modular construction, needs to meet the functional requirements of building regulations. It may be assessed as having done so by a registered building control approver. That is the distinction: the planning process takes account of the situation of the property and its impact on the local environment, and building control takes account of the physical functional requirements of the regulations.