Permit to demolish
Verified 20 March 2026 - Public Service / Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Do you want to demolish all or part of a building? Before it is demolished, you need to check if it is located in an area where the demolition permit is mandatory. If the demolition is followed by a construction or development project, the application for a demolition permit can be made in the building permit (CP) or development permit (PA) file. We guide you through the steps of the process.
You must first inquire with your town hall to know if your project is located in a protected area :
The content of the demolition permit file, the number of copies to be provided and the processing times are different when your project is located in a protected or unprotected area.
General case
Step-by-step approach
A demolition permit is required prior to the partial or total demolition of a building located in the following cases:
- Municipality where the municipal council introduced this permit
- Scope of a property restoration operation.
To find out if your demolition project is subject to a permit, you must ask the city planning department of your town hall (or at Basu: titleContent for a building in Paris).
The application for authorization is addressed to the town hall by natural persons and morals following:
- Owner(s) of the land or its agent
- Acquirer of the property
- Company authorized by the owner(s) to carry out the work
- Person in undivided or its authorized representative
- Trustee and co-owner
- Beneficiary of a expropriation (public service, public establishment, chamber of commerce...).
The approaches are different for a demolition whether or not followed by reconstruction :
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Demolition without reconstruction or development
The way to complete your application varies according to your municipality:
General case
You must complete your file by dematerialized means according to the arrangements made by your municipality or on a paper form. Ask on the website of the town hall or on site.
On the internet
You can fill out your demolition permit application on the internet:
Form
You can complete your demolition permit application using a form:
Application for a demolition permit
If more than one person applies for a joint authorization for the same project, they must fill in an additional form:
Supplementary file/other applicants for the same project
In all demolition permit application files, you must provide the following documents:
- Situation Plan land within the municipality that specifies its scale and orientation in relation to the north
- Ground plane constructions, rated in the 3 dimensions that specifies its scale and the orientation of the land with respect to the north
- Photo of the building to be demolished.
In the permit application form, a attachment slip lists all the documents that the administration may ask you for depending on the situation of the building.
In Paris
You must complete your file only by dematerialization:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: one-stop shop
Demolition with reconstruction or development
When a construction or development project depends on the demolition of a building, the application form for building permit or to develop also allows you to request permission to demolish. You only have 1 file to fill out.
The way to complete your application varies according to your municipality:
General case
You must complete your file by dematerialized means according to the arrangements made by your municipality or on a paper form. Ask on the website of the town hall or on site.
On the internet
You can fill out your demolition permit application on the internet:
Form
Depending on your project, you are applying for a building permit (PC) or a planning permit (PA):
You can complete your PC application using a form:
Application for a building permit for a detached house and/or its annexes (PCMI)
If more than one person applies for a joint authorization for the same project, they must fill in an additional form:
You can complete your PC application using a form:
Application for a building permit (other than for a detached house or its annexes)
If more than one person applies for a joint authorization for the same project, they must fill in an additional form:
You can complete your AP application using a form:
Application for planning permission
If more than one person applies for a joint authorization for the same project, they must fill in an additional form:
In Paris
You must complete your file only by dematerialization:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: one-stop shop
Depending on whether you are in Paris or in another municipality, you must submit your application:
- By dematerialized means according to the arrangements made by your municipality (find out more on the website of the town hall or on site)
- Per letter RAR: titleContent
- Hand-held.
Warning
In a municipality of more than 3,500 inhabitants, a legal person must submit its application forcity planning authorization only electronically.
General case
By internet
You can send your application via the internet:
Assistance for your planning permission application
The town hall issues you a receipt. When you submit your application electronically, the receipt is the electronic acknowledgement of receipt.
It includes the registration number of your file and the information allowing you to know the date from which the work can begin.
Deposit in town hall or by mail
Your permit application can be submitted or sent by mail RAR: titleContent to the town hall.
You must deposit:
- 4 complete demolition permit application files
- 5 copies of situation plan additional
- 5 copies of ground plane additional
- 5 copies of cross-sectional plane additional.
The town hall issues you a receipt. It includes the registration number of your file and the information allowing you to know the date from which the work can begin.
This receipt specifies that, within 1 month from the filing of the file, the City Hall can notify a different time frame to start your work. She also has 1 month to inform you that your file is incomplete.
In Paris
You must send your file to the Reception and Service Office to the user (Basu: titleContent) only by dematerialization:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: one-stop shop
The processing times vary depending on the authorization you request:
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Permit to demolish
The time limit for processing your application is 2 months.
The town hall has 1 month to claim the missing documents from your file. You then have 3 months to complete it. If you do not provide the missing parts, your request will be considered rejected.
The processing time starts from the reception of the complete permit file at the town hall.
Building permit for a detached house with demolition
The time limit for processing your application is 3 months.
The town hall has 1 month to claim the missing documents from your file. You then have 3 months to complete it. If you do not provide the missing parts, your request will be considered rejected.
The investigation period begins from the reception in town hall of the complete file of permits.
Development permit with demolition
The time limit for processing your application is 3 months.
The town hall has 1 month to claim the missing documents from your file. You then have 3 months to complete it. If you do not provide the missing parts, your request will be considered rejected.
The processing time starts from the reception of the complete permit file at the town hall.
The decision is sent to you by letter RAR: titleContent or by LRE: titleContent or an equivalent electronic method.
There are several possible cases:
- Authorization or lack of response
- Authorization with requirements
- Refusal
- Stay of proceedings.
Please note
Within 3 months of the date of the decision, the mayor may withdraw the authorization issued if he considers that it does not comply with the rules in force. This is also the case if the information provided in the file is inaccurate (false surface, plan of the truncated land, request for authorization on the basis of an invalid offer to purchase...).
Authorization
The decision takes the form ofone arrested signed by the mayor.
If your work may jeopardize the protection or enhancement of built heritage, neighborhoods, monuments and sites, the demolition permit is granted with specific rules to be respected. The mayor must justify his decision.
Refusal
The refusal of authorization takes the form of a arrested in which the mayor justifies that decision. It must also indicate the remedies and time limits for appeal.
No response
If you don't get a response from the mayor after the deadline, it means he doesn't object to your project. You benefit from a tacit permit.
In practice, it is in your interest to ask the town hall for a certificate attesting to its absence of opposition. It must deliver it to you upon your request, preferably by letter RAR: titleContent.
This allows you to have proof of the reality of the tacit decision.
Stay of proceedings
By taking a reasoned decision the mayor may suspend the decision for a period of 2 years maximum. The duration must be specified in the decision.
Your license is not accepted or refused. It will be reviewed later.
The reasons for the decision and the remedies and time limits for appeal are set out in thearrested.
Within 2 months of the expiry of the period of validity of the stay, you must confirm your application for a demolition permit. Within 2 months of your request, you will receive the mayor's decision. If you do not receive your license within this period, your license will be considered granted.
When the mayor refuses your application for city planning authorization or takes a arrested from stay of proceedings, you can challenge his decision in 2 ways:
- Appeal to the mayor (and/or the prefect in a municipality without MORE: titleContent, nor municipal card)
- Appeals to the administrative judge.
These 2 appeals can be made independently one from the other or simultaneously.
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Appeals to the mayor and/or the prefect
You have 1 month to make a ex gratia before the mayor from the date of notification of its refusal (date of deposit or postmark). If your municipality is without MORE no municipal card, within the same period, you can also deposit a hierarchical redress before the prefect, in addition to the appeal to the mayor.
To make your request, you write your appeal on free paper. You can drop it off by hand or send it to the town hall and/or the prefecture by post RAR: titleContent.
In the absence of a response from the mayor and/or the prefect in the 2 months which follow the date on which your appeal was sent or lodged, your request is rejected.
Appeals to the administrative judge
You have 2 months to make a litigation before the administrative judge from the date of notification the refusal of the mayor or the date of implied rejection (date of deposit or postmark). This time limit remains 2 months, even if you have previously appealed to the mayor and/or the prefect.
To make your application, you must refer the matter to the administrative judge by letter in which you justify your appeal. You don't have to hire a lawyer.
You must apply to the administrative court on which the municipality where your project is located depends.
You can do your recourse with the help of an online service:
Citizens' telemedicine (appeal to the administrative judge)
You can also drop it off by hand or send it to RAR: titleContent.
The permit to demolish, the permit to build or develop with demolition have a period of validity of Three years.
This period shall start from the notification of the mayor's decision. It is sent to you by mail RAR: titleContent (or electronically if you have accepted this method in the permit application form).
Depending on the method of transmission of the notification, the period of validity of your authorization starts on the following date:
- 1re presentation of registered mail
- The day after the date of electronic notification.
Without a written response from the mayor, the validity period is calculated from the date of initial submission of the application.
Your authorization no longer valid if you do not start the work within 3 years or if after this period you interrupt it for more than 1 year in a row.
Please note
The period of validity of authorizations issued between 1er January 2021 and May 27, 2022 is 4 years.
The period of validity of authorizations issued between 28 May 2022 and 28 May 2024 shall be 5 years. In this case, the authorization cannot be extended.
Object of the display
You must view city planning permission on the ground.
An extract of your authorization is posted in the town hall within 8 days of its issuance and for 2 months.
Display Time
The display of the city planning authorization on the east field mandatory. You must make this display as soon as notification of thearrested or as soon as the processing time for your file is over (certificate of non-opposition).
It must remain in place during the entire duration of the work.
Formalism of display
You must use a rectangular panel with dimensions greater than 80 cm. It must be visible from the outside. The information on your billboard must be legible from the public highway or open to the public.
The display displays the following information:
- Name, business name or company name of the beneficiary
- Date and number of authorization
- Nature of the project, land area
- Address of the town hall where the file can be consulted
- Name of thearchitect author of the architectural project.
Depending on the nature of the project, it shall also indicate the following:
- Floor surface authorized and the height of the construction(s), expressed in meters in relation to the natural ground, if the project provides for construction
- Maximum number of lots planned if the project is for a subdivision
- Total number of sites and, if applicable, the number of sites reserved for light recreational housing if the project involves a campground or residential recreational park
- Area of building(s) to be demolished if the project involves demolition.
The posting shall also inform of the possibilities of appeal by mentioning the following information:
« Right of appeal:
The time limit for litigation is two months from the first day of a continuous period of two months of display on the ground of this panel (art. R. 600-2 of the city planning code).
Any administrative appeal or any contentious appeal must, on pain of inadmissibility, be notified to the author of the decision and to the beneficiary of the permit or of the decision taken on the prior declaration. This notification must be sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt within fifteen clear days from the filing of the appeal (Article R. 600-1 of the city planning Code). »
You don't have to Declaration of opening of the construction site (DOC) if you have obtained a demolition permit. She is mandatory if you have obtained a permit to build or develop with demolition.
The method of transmission of your DOC differs depending on whether you are in the province or in Paris:
General case
Before you begin your work, you must declare the opening of the site on a form in 3 copies to be deposited or sent to the town hall, preferably by letter RAR: titleContent :
In Paris
Before you begin your work, you must declare the opening of the site to Basu only by dematerialized means:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: one-stop shop
You can start your work 15 days after receiving thearrested of demolition permits. In the absence of an answer, you can start your work 15 days after the date on which it is acquired.
The period of validity may be extended 2 times for a period of 1 year if the city planning rules and administrative easements have not changed.
You have to make it there request At least 2 months before the expiry of the initial period of validity of your city planning authorization (or before the end of the period of validity of your 1re request for extension).
Example :
An authorization valid from 5 June 2025 to 5 June 2028 may be extended for 1 year if you apply before 5 April 2028.
It can be extended a 2e once if you request it 2 months before the end of the 1re extension granted.
The request must be sent on free paper, in 2 copies, by letter RAR: titleContent or dropped off at city hall.
Upon receipt of your request, the town hall has 2 months to answer you.
The extension is granted if you do not receive a reply within this period.
Only the valid city planning permissions may be extended.
If the city planning rules and administrative easements have changed, you cannot apply for an extension of your authorization. You must file a new application for city planning in accordance with the new rules.
Warning
Authorizations issued between 28 May 2022 and 28 May 2024 shall be valid for 5 years. In this case, they cannot be extended at the end of 5 years.
You don't have to Declaration of Completion and Conformity (DAACT)) if you have obtained a demolition permit.
You must file a DAACT with the town hall if you have obtained a building permit or a planning permit that is accompanied by demolition.
When you have finished your work, you must send to the town hall a Declaration of Completion and Compliance (DAACT).
The method of transmission of your DAACT differs depending on whether you are in the province or in Paris:
General case
You must submit your DAACT file to the town hall:
- By dematerialized means according to the arrangements made by your municipality (find out more on the website of the town hall or on site)
- Per letter RAR: titleContent
- Hand-held.
On the internet
You can complete your DAACT application on the internet:
Form
You can complete your DAACT application using a form:
In Paris
You must file your DAACT file at Basu: titleContent only by dematerialized means.
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: one-stop shop
Your work can have an impact on local taxes. You can also pay the following tax and royalty:
For more information, contact the departmental center of property taxes.
You can do a simulation of the amount of your development tax and the preventive archeology tax:
City planning tax simulator (development tax and preventive archeology tax)
Please note
The connection to the sewer of new or existing constructions generates the payment of the participation for the financing of the collective sanitation (Pfac: titleContent or Pac).
Protected area
Step-by-step approach
A demolition permit is required prior to the partial or total demolition of a building located in the following cases:
- Municipality where the municipal council introduced this permit
- Perimeter of a remarkable heritage site classified, aux approaches to a historic monument or building listed as a historic monument
- Scope of a property restoration operation
- Registered Site or classified or pending site.
To find out if your demolition project is subject to a permit, you must ask the city planning department of your town hall, or the Basu: titleContent for Paris.
The application for authorization is addressed to the town hall by natural persons and morals following:
- Owner(s) of the land or its agent
- Acquirer of the property
- Company authorized by the owner(s) to carry out the work
- Person in undivided or its authorized representative
- Trustee and co-owner
- Beneficiary of a expropriation (public service, public establishment, chamber of commerce...).
The approaches are different for a demolition whether or not followed by reconstruction.
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Demolition without reconstruction or development
The way to fill out your application varies depending on whether you are in Paris or in another municipality:
General case
You must complete your file by dematerialized means according to the arrangements made by your municipality or on a paper form. Ask on the website of the town hall or on site.
On the internet
You can fill out your demolition permit application on the internet:
Form
You can complete your demolition permit application using a form:
Application for a demolition permit
If more than one person applies for a joint authorization for the same project, they must fill in an additional form:
Supplementary file/other applicants for the same project
In all demolition permit application files, you must provide the following documents:
- Situation Plan land within the municipality that specifies its scale and orientation in relation to the north
- Ground plane constructions, rated in the 3 dimensions that specifies its scale and the orientation of the land with respect to the north
- Photo of the building to be demolished.
Other parts are required for the demolition of the following buildings:
- Registered building
- Building located in approaches to a historic monument or in remarkable heritage site
- Building located in the heart of a national park
- Building on a siteNatura 2000.
In the permit application form, a attachment slip lists all the documents that the administration may ask you for depending on the situation of the building.
In Paris
You must complete your file only by dematerialization:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: one-stop shop
Demolition with reconstruction or development
When a construction or development project depends on the demolition of a building, the application form for building permit or to develop also allows you to request permission to demolish. You only have 1 file to fill out.
The way to fill out your application varies depending on whether you are in Paris or in another municipality:
General case
You must complete your file by dematerialized means according to the arrangements made by your municipality or on a paper form. Ask on the website of the town hall or on site.
On the internet
You can fill out your demolition permit application on the internet:
Form
Depending on your project, you are applying for a building permit or a development permit:
You can complete your PC application using a form:
Application for a building permit for a detached house and/or its annexes (PCMI)
If more than one person applies for a joint authorization for the same project, they must fill in an additional form:
You can complete your PC application using a form:
Application for a building permit (other than for a detached house or its annexes)
If more than one person applies for a joint authorization for the same project, they must fill in an additional form:
You can complete your AP application using a form:
Application for planning permission
If more than one person applies for a joint authorization for the same project, they must fill in an additional form:
In Paris
You must complete your file only by dematerialization:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: one-stop shop
Depending on whether you are in Paris or in another municipality, you must submit your application:
- By dematerialized means according to the arrangements made by your municipality (find out more on the website of the town hall or on site)
- Per letter RAR: titleContent
- Hand-held.
Warning
In a municipality of more than 3,500 inhabitants, a legal person must submit its application forcity planning authorization only electronically.
General case
By internet
You can send your application via the internet:
Assistance for your planning permission application
The town hall issues you a receipt. When you submit your application electronically, the receipt is the electronic acknowledgement of receipt.
It includes the registration number of your file and the information allowing you to know the date from which the work can begin.
Deposit in town hall or by mail
Your permit application can be submitted or sent by mail RAR: titleContent to the town hall.
You must deposit:
- 4 complete demolition permit application files
- 5 copies of situation plan additional
- 5 copies of ground plane additional
- 5 copies of cross-sectional plane additional.
You will need to add:
- 1 additional copy, if your project is within the perimeter of a remarkable heritage site or to approaches to a historic monument
- 1 additional copy, if your project is located in a classified or registered site or a nature reserve
- 2 additional copies, if your project is located in the heart of a national park.
The town hall issues you a receipt. It includes the registration number of your file and the information allowing you to know the date from which the work can begin.
This receipt specifies that, within 1 month from the filing of the file, the City Hall can notify a different time frame to start your work. She also has 1 month to inform you that your file is incomplete.
In Paris
You must send your file to the Reception and Service Office to the user (Basu: titleContent) only by dematerialization:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: one-stop shop
The processing times vary depending on the authorization you request:
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Permit to demolish
The time limit for processing your application is 3 months.
The town hall has 1 month to claim the missing documents from your file. You then have 3 months to complete it. If you do not provide the missing parts, your request will be considered rejected.
The investigation period begins from the reception in town hall of the complete file of permits.
Building permit for a detached house with demolition
The time limit for processing your application is 3 months.
The town hall has 1 month to claim the missing documents from your file. You then have 3 months to complete it. If you do not provide the missing parts, your request will be considered rejected.
The investigation period begins from the reception in town hall of the complete file of permits.
Development permit with demolition
The time limit for processing your application is 4 months.
The town hall has 1 month to claim the missing documents from your file. You then have 3 months to complete it. If you do not provide the missing parts, your request will be considered rejected.
The investigation period begins from the reception in town hall of the complete file of permits.
The decision is sent to you by letter RAR: titleContent or by LRE: titleContent or an equivalent electronic method.
There are several possible cases:
- Authorization or lack of response
- Authorization with requirements
- Refusal
- Stay of proceedings.
Please note
Within 3 months of the date of the decision, the mayor may withdraw the authorization issued if he considers that it does not comply with the rules in force. This is also the case if the information provided in the file is inaccurate (false surface, plan of the truncated land, request for authorization on the basis of an invalid offer to purchase...).
Authorization
The decision takes the form ofone arrested signed by the mayor.
If your work may jeopardize the protection or enhancement of built heritage, neighborhoods, monuments and sites, the demolition permit is granted with specific rules to be respected. The mayor must justify his decision.
Refusal
The refusal of authorization takes the form of a arrested in which the mayor justifies that decision. It must also indicate the remedies and time limits for appeal.
No response
If you don't get a response from the mayor after the deadline, it means he doesn't object to your project. You benefit from a tacit permit.
In practice, it is in your interest to ask the town hall for a certificate attesting to its absence of opposition. It must deliver it to you upon your request, preferably by letter RAR: titleContent.
This allows you to have proof of the reality of the tacit decision.
Warning
In certain specific cases, the absence of a written decision from the town hall, or the Basu: titleContent for Paris, means refusal of your request. For example, if your project is in a classified site, in the heart of a national park, if your project is refused by the building listed as a historic monument.
Stay of proceedings
By taking a reasoned decision the mayor may suspend the decision for a period of 2 years maximum. The duration must be specified in the decision.
Your license is not accepted or refused. It will be reviewed later.
The reasons for the decision and the remedies and time limits for appeal are set out in thearrested.
Within 2 months of the expiry of the period of validity of the stay, you must confirm your application for a demolition permit. Within 2 months of your request, you will receive the mayor's decision. If you do not receive your license within this period, your license will be considered granted.
When the mayor refuses your application for city planning authorization or takes a arrested from stay of proceedings, you can challenge his decision in 2 ways:
- Appeal to the mayor (and/or the prefect in a municipality without MORE: titleContent, nor municipal card)
- Appeals to the administrative judge.
These 2 appeals can be made independently one from the other or simultaneously.
Warning
If you are in a remarkable heritage site or to approaches to a historic monument and if the refusal of authorization is based on an unfavorable opinion of theABF: titleContent, you have to make a compulsory prior administrative appeal (Rapo). It must be made to the regional prefect before your appeal before the administrative judge.
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Appeals to the mayor and/or the prefect
You have 1 month to make a ex gratia before the mayor from the date of notification of its refusal (date of deposit or postmark). If your municipality is without MORE no municipal card, within the same period, you can also deposit a hierarchical redress before the prefect, in addition to the appeal to the mayor.
To make your request, you write your appeal on free paper. You can drop it off by hand or send it to the town hall and/or the prefecture by post RAR: titleContent.
In the absence of a response from the mayor and/or the prefect in the 2 months which follow the date on which your appeal was sent or lodged, your request is rejected.
Appeals to the administrative judge
You have 2 months to make a litigation before the administrative judge from the date of notification the refusal of the mayor or the date of implied rejection (date of deposit or postmark). This time limit remains 2 months, even if you have previously appealed to the mayor and/or the prefect.
To make your application, you must refer the matter to the administrative judge by letter in which you justify your appeal. You don't have to hire a lawyer.
You must apply to the administrative court on which the municipality where your project is located depends.
You can do your recourse with the help of an online service:
Citizens' telemedicine (appeal to the administrative judge)
You can also drop it off by hand or send it to RAR: titleContent.
The permit to demolish, the permit to build or develop with demolition have a period of validity of Three years.
This period shall start from the notification of the mayor's decision. It is sent to you by mail RAR: titleContent (or electronically if you have accepted this method in the permit application form).
Depending on the method of transmission of the notification, the period of validity of your authorization starts on the following date:
- 1re presentation of registered mail
- The day after the date of electronic notification.
Without a written response from the mayor, the validity period is calculated from the date of initial submission of the application.
Your authorization no longer valid if you do not start the work within 3 years or if after this period you interrupt it for more than 1 year in a row.
Please note
The period of validity of authorizations issued between 1er January 2021 and May 27, 2022 is 4 years.
The period of validity of authorizations issued between 28 May 2022 and 28 May 2024 shall be 5 years. In this case, the authorization cannot be extended.
Object of the display
You must view city planning permission on the ground.
An extract of your authorization is posted in the town hall within 8 days of its issuance and for 2 months.
Display Time
The display of the city planning authorization on the east field mandatory. You must make this display as soon as notification of thearrested or as soon as the processing time for your file is over (certificate of non-opposition).
It must remain in place during the entire duration of the work.
Formalism of display
You must use a rectangular panel with dimensions greater than 80 cm. It must be visible from the outside. The information on your billboard must be legible from the public highway or open to the public.
The display displays the following information:
- Name, business name or company name of the beneficiary
- Date and number of authorization
- Nature of the project, land area
- Address of the town hall where the file can be consulted
- Name of thearchitect author of the architectural project.
Depending on the nature of the project, it shall also indicate the following:
- Floor surface authorized and the height of the construction(s), expressed in meters in relation to the natural ground, if the project provides for construction
- Maximum number of lots planned if the project is for a subdivision
- Total number of sites and, if applicable, the number of sites reserved for light recreational housing if the project involves a campground or residential recreational park
- Area of building(s) to be demolished if the project involves demolition.
The posting shall also inform of the possibilities of appeal by mentioning the following information:
« Right of appeal:
The time limit for litigation is two months from the first day of a continuous period of two months of display on the ground of this panel (art. R. 600-2 of the city planning code).
Any administrative appeal or any contentious appeal must, on pain of inadmissibility, be notified to the author of the decision and to the beneficiary of the permit or of the decision taken on the prior declaration. This notification must be sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt within fifteen clear days from the filing of the appeal (Article R. 600-1 of the city planning Code). »
You don't have to Declaration of opening of the construction site (DOC) if you have obtained a demolition permit. She is mandatory if you have obtained a permit to build or develop with demolition.
The method of transmission of your DOC differs depending on whether you are in the province or in Paris:
General case
Before you begin your work, you must declare the opening of the site on a form in 3 copies to be deposited or sent to the town hall, preferably by letter RAR: titleContent :
In Paris
Before you begin your work, you must declare the opening of the site to Basu only by dematerialized means:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: one-stop shop
You can start your work 15 days after receiving thearrested of demolition permits. In the absence of an answer, you can start your work 15 days after the date on which it is acquired.
The period of validity may be extended 2 times for a period of 1 year if the city planning rules and administrative easements have not changed.
You have to make it there request At least 2 months before the expiry of the initial period of validity of your city planning authorization (or before the end of the period of validity of your 1re request for extension).
Example :
An authorization valid from 5 June 2025 to 5 June 2028 may be extended for 1 year if you apply before 5 April 2028.
It can be extended a 2e once if you request it 2 months before the end of the 1re extension granted.
The request must be sent on free paper, in 2 copies, by letter RAR: titleContent or dropped off at city hall.
Upon receipt of your request, the town hall has 2 months to answer you.
The extension is granted if you do not receive a reply within this period.
Only the valid city planning permissions may be extended.
If the city planning rules and administrative easements have changed, you cannot apply for an extension of your authorization. You must file a new application for city planning in accordance with the new rules.
Warning
Authorizations issued between 28 May 2022 and 28 May 2024 shall be valid for 5 years. In this case, they cannot be extended at the end of 5 years.
You don't have to Declaration of Completion and Conformity (DAACT)) if you have obtained a demolition permit.
You must file a DAACT with the town hall if you have obtained a building permit or a planning permit that is accompanied by demolition.
When you have finished your work, you must send to the town hall a Declaration of Completion and Compliance (DAACT).
The method of transmission of your DAACT differs depending on whether you are in the province or in Paris:
General case
You must submit your DAACT file to the town hall:
- By dematerialized means according to the arrangements made by your municipality (find out more on the website of the town hall or on site)
- Per letter RAR: titleContent
- Hand-held.
On the internet
You can complete your DAACT application on the internet:
Form
You can complete your DAACT application using a form:
In Paris
You must file your DAACT file at Basu: titleContent only by dematerialized means.
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: one-stop shop
Your work can have an impact on local taxes. You can also pay the following tax and royalty:
For more information, contact the departmental center of property taxes.
You can do a simulation of the amount of your development tax and the preventive archeology tax:
City planning tax simulator (development tax and preventive archeology tax)
Please note
The connection to the sewer of new or existing constructions generates the payment of the participation for the financing of the collective sanitation (Pfac: titleContent or Pac).
Assistance for your planning permission application
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: one-stop shop
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
For information on city planning regulation and administrative procedures
For more information on this subject, you can contact Allô Service Public.
Attention: the service does not have access to users' personal files and therefore cannot provide information on their progress.
- Lundi : de 08h30 à 17h30
- Mardi : de 08h30 à 12h15
- Mercredi : de 08h30 à 12h15
- Jeudi : de 08h30 à 17h30Horaires exceptionnels le jeudi 2 avril de 08h30 à 09h45 et de 14h00 à 17h30
- Vendredi : de 13h00 à 16h15
- Service free
The informants who answer you belong to the ministry in charge of housing and city planning.
For information on the local urban plan or your permit file
Town HallFor information on the local urban plan or your permit file in Paris
Paris: Reception and user service office (Basu)For information on local taxes or taxes
Departmental Center for Property Taxes (CDIF)
Time limit for appeal to the mayor and/or the prefect
Time-limit for bringing an action before the administrative court
Work covered by the demolition permit
Filing of applications and declarations
Posting of the notice of application for a demolition permit in the town hall
Tacit authorization
RAPO in a remarkable heritage site or on the outskirts of a historic monument
Display in the field
Period of validity of the demolition permit
Content of the application for a demolition permit
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