In other words, the whole of schedule 4 (which sets out the jobs which are not notifiable) is a completely inconsistent mish-mash of badly written rules which make practically no sense.
They may make practically no sense to you, but not everybody suffers from the same handicaps as you do.
Browsing those links to old threads at the bottom of the page, I happened upon a couple of old threads. Ladies & gentlemen of the DIYnot jury, I present the following evidence.
Exhibit A
On October 14, 2003, B-A-S wrote a quite sensible critique of the then-proposed Part P rules, and included the statement that:
Some of this makes no sense
//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=15096
I submit that while there were changes in the final version, and later amendments, many of the things which were acknowledged as making no sense then are still in the current rules and still make no sense. Perhaps we could get an explanation as to why somebody who acknowledged that nonsensical nature of some of those rules almost 8 years ago now appears to think that they make perfect sense.
Exhibit B
On May 23, 2005, B-A-S wrote:
I'm hardly likely to have a problem with DIYers not notifying LABC, am I?
//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=165037
Perhaps we could also get an explanation as to why a little over 6 years later somebody who's "hardly likely to have a problem" with jobs not being notified seems to put an inordinate amount of effort into asking newcomers to the forum accusatory questions such as "How did you tell building control you would comply with Part P?" at every opportunity.
Exhibit C
A little earlier in this thread when pointing out that certain things regarding the arrangements I make in my own house I was told that my "anti-government opinions" are irrelevant if the government has decided that something is, supposedly, in my best interest (or the best interest of the country, which apparently, owns the house to which I have a title deed).
In a thread about socket heights, on March 9, 2004, B-A-S came up with this idea:
OK - here's the plan.
Above every switch and below every socket, install boxes at the heights you want, and have the cables run through them on their way to the "correct" ones, and plaster over them.
After Mr Building Control has done his final inspection, and before you do the final decoration, knock away the plaster, cut the cables, pull the discarded ends out, install the accessories where you want and plaster over the other set of boxes. Bit of a fag, but it might be the only way to get what you want.
//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=35380
Perhaps we could get an explanation as to why somebody who was advocating such a pragmatic approach to such things just over 7 years ago now seems to take the view that if some government bureaucrat has decreed that something shall be so, then we should all be good little Socialists and just accept it without question and do what we're told.