What does regularisation cost?
It depends on what was built and whether it complies. The main cost drivers are the as-built survey, intrusive investigation and testing, the engineer's assessment and submissions, any authority fees or pecuniary penalty, strengthening or rectification works, and the business disruption while works are carried out. A simple non-structural item may only need drawings and a submission; an undersized mezzanine may need strengthening or removal. Get the engineer's assessment before pricing remedial works.
From the RRD Field Guide, checked against the sources cited in Unauthorised Building Works in Singapore: Penalties, Detection and How to Regularise. General information, not advice for your project.
The fuller picture
Unauthorised building works are works carried out without a required approval from BCA (plans or structural permit), SCDF (fire safety works) or URA (planning or conservation permission). They can attract fines of up to S$200,000 under each regime. To keep them, the owner appoints a Qualified Person to survey and assess the works and seek retrospective approval; otherwise they must be rectified or removed.
More questions on this topic
- What counts as unauthorised building works in Singapore?
- I bought the property with the unauthorised works already there. Am I responsible?
- Can unauthorised works be approved after the event?
- Will my lawyer's legal requisition reveal unauthorised works?
- How are unauthorised works usually discovered?
- Is a mezzanine in a warehouse unit a building work?
- Does the tenant or the landlord bear liability for a tenant's unauthorised works?