Another approach to that kind of vague code requirement might be for compliance software to do automated checks and also spit out the list of for-human-checking

Another approach to that kind of vague code requirement might be for compliance software to do automated checks and also spit out the list of for-human-checking items. If the permitting authority only has to do things like "check the sliding door handles aren't daft" and not also "measure a lot of distances to emergency exits" it ought to speed things up still. The question then would be: are code requirements mostly of the objective "electric sockets must be at least 1m away from the bathtub" type or the assumes-human-evaluation "doors must be easily operable" type ?