Building Permit (PC)
Verified 13 February 2026 - Public Service / (Prime Minister)
You want to build a building of more than 20 m² or make significant works on an existing building. Depending on the situation of your project, you must obtain an urban planning permit from the town hall by filing a building permit (PC). Smaller works and structures are subject to prior declaration of works (DP). 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 PC file, the number of copies to be provided and the processing times are different when your project is located in a protected area.
General scenario
Step-by-step approach
Works that result in the creation of floor area orright-of-way or an interior or exterior layout of your property may be affected by a PC.
Creation of floor area or footprint
Interior design works
The application for authorization is addressed to the town hall by natural persons and moral following:
- Owner(s) of the land or its agent
- Acquirer of the property
- Company authorized by the owner(s) to make the works
- Person in undivided or its authorized representative
- Trustee and co-owner
- Beneficiary of a expropriation (public service, public establishment, chamber of commerce...).)
The way to build your PC file differs depending on whether you are in Paris or another municipality:
General scenario
You must complete your PC file by dematerialized means according to the arrangements made by your municipality or on a paper form. Find out more on the town hall website or on site.
On the internet
You can fill out your PC application form on the internet:
Form
The PC form varies if you are making your works on a detached house or on another type of building:
Works on your house or building an annex (veranda, garden shed...))
You can complete your PC application using a form:
Application for a building permit for a detached house and/or its annexes (PCMI)
When several people file together a building permit, they attach a supplementary sheet in which they give the identity and contact details of each owner.
Supplementary sheet/other applicants for the same project
Please note
By filling out the permit application form, you can choose to receive correspondence from the administration by LRE: titleContent or by another equivalent electronic method.
The building permit application file includes the form and documents to be provided.
In the form, a " attachment deposit slip » gives the full list any documents that the urban planning department may request from you.
For all projects, you must provide the following documents:
- Situation Plan land you can get on the Geoportal website
- Mass plane
- Cross-sectional plane
- Notice presenting the land, its surroundings and the project (implantation, access, parking, planned developments, materials and colors of the constructions, plantations)
- Plan of facades and roofs
- Graphical document (photomontage for example) to assess the project in relation to other nearby constructions and landscapes
- Original photograph to locate the land in its nearby environment
- Original photograph to locate the land in its distant environment.
Other documents are requested depending on the nature of your project.
The recourse to the architect may also be required for an expansion.
If the floor area of your construction is more than 150 m², you must have the plans drawn up by an architect.
If the floor area of your farm building is more than 800 m², you must have the plans drawn up by an architect.
Warning
If you are a legal person, other than a farm or farm equipment co-operative, you must always use an architect.
Works for building or building extensions and energy renovation works must comply with the environmental regulations 2020.
You must provide a certificate of compliance with these regulations that you can obtain on the Internet:
Certificates of consideration of environmental regulations RE 2020 and thermal RT 2012
Works on another type of building
A form must be completed:
Application for a building permit (other than for a detached house or its annexes)
When several people file together a building permit, they attach a supplementary sheet in which they give the identity and contact details of each owner.
Supplementary sheet/other applicants for the same project
Please note
By filling out the permit application form, you can choose to receive correspondence from the administration by LRE: titleContent or by another equivalent electronic method.
The building permit application file includes the form and documents to be provided.
In the form, a " attachment deposit slip » gives the full list any documents that the urban planning department may request from you.
For all projects, you must provide the following documents:
- Situation Plan land you can get on the Geoportal website
- Mass plane
- Cross-sectional plane
- Notice presenting the land, its surroundings and the project (implantation, access, parking, planned developments, materials and colors of the constructions, plantations)
- Plan of facades and roofs
- Graphical document (photomontage for example) to assess the project in relation to other nearby constructions and landscapes
- Original photograph to locate the land in its nearby environment
- Original photograph to locate the land in its distant environment.
Other documents are requested depending on the nature of your project.
The recourse to the architect may also be required for an expansion.
If the floor area of your construction is more than 150 m², you must have the plans drawn up by an architect.
If the floor area of your farm building is more than 800 m², you must have the plans drawn up by an architect.
Warning
If you are a legal person, other than a farm or farm equipment co-operative, you must always use an architect.
Works for building or building extensions and energy renovation works must comply with the environmental regulations 2020.
You must provide a certificate of compliance with these regulations that you can obtain on the Internet:
Certificates of consideration of environmental regulations RE 2020 and thermal RT 2012
In Paris
You must complete and send your file to the Office of Reception and Service to the user (Basu: titleContent) only by dematerialized means:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: electronic one-stop shop
Depending on whether you are in Paris or another municipality, you must submit your application:
- By dematerialized method according to the arrangements made by your municipality (find out more on the website of the town hall or on site)
- By letter RAR: titleContent
- By hand.
Warning
In a municipality of more than 3,500 inhabitants, a legal person must submit its application forurban planning authorization only by electronic means.
General scenario
By internet
You can send your application via the internet:
Assistance with your urban 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 contains the registration number of your file and the information telling you the date from which the works will be able to start.
Deposit in town hall or by mail
Your permit application can be submitted or sent by mail RAR: titleContent at the town hall.
You must deposit:
- 4 complete building permit application files
- 5 copies of situation plan additional
- 5 copies of ground plane additional
- 5 copies of cross-sectional plane additional.
In Paris
You must complete and send your file to the Office of Reception and Service to the user (Basu: titleContent) only by dematerialized means:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: electronic one-stop shop
The starting point for the processing time differs whether your file is complete or not.
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Your file is complete
For a detached house, the time limit for the investigation shall be 2 months from the date of submission of the complete file to the town hall.
For the other projects, the time limit shall be 3 months.
Your file is incomplete
Within 1 month of receiving or submitting your permit application to the town hall, it will send you a request by letter or by electronic means for the missing parts.
You have 3 months to send the requested parts. If you do not provide them, your license application will be considered rejected.
The investigation delay starts when your file is complete.
The decision is sent to you by letter RAR: titleContent or by LRE: titleContent or an equivalent electronic process.
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 a permit if he considers that it has been issued illegally (false surface, plan of the truncated land, application for a permit on the basis of a null offer to purchase...).)
Authorization or lack of response
The decision to grant you a building permit takes the form ofone arrested signed by the mayor.
If you do not receive a response from the town hall at the end of the period of instruction, your project is accepted. It is a tacit building permit.
On simple request from you, the town hall must issue you a certificate of non-opposition. You thus have proof to assert your rights (obtaining a loan, taking out insurance).
Authorization with prescriptions
If the city hall has reservations about your works, it takes a arrested with requirements. Then you have to do your works according to these imposed rules.
The reasons for the decision and the means and time limits for appeal are specified in the order.
Refusal
If the city hall refuses your project, it takes a arrested of opposition.
The reasons for the decision, the means and the time limits for appeal are specified in the order.
Stay of proceedings
In certain circumstances, the mayor can postpone his decision on your permit for up to 2 years. The mayor takes a arrested stay of proceedings which indicates its duration. Your request is neither accepted nor refused. It will be considered later.
The stay of proceedings may concern any application for authorization concerning works, structures or installations in the following cases:
- Land that is part of the perimeter of a concerted development area (Zac: titleContent)
- Initiation of the investigation prior to the declaration of public utility (DUP: titleContent) of an operation
- Proposed constructions that may compromise or make more expensive the execution of public works or the carrying out of a development operation
- Planned constructions likely to compromise or make more expensive the execution of the future local urban planning plan (MORE: titleContent)
- Project located in a space intended to be in the heart of a national park.
The reasons for the decision and the remedies and time limits for appeal are specified in the order.
Within 2 months of the expiry of the period of validity of the stay of proceedings, you must confirm your application for leave. Within 2 months of your request, you will receive the mayor's decision. If you do not receive a response, your permission is considered granted.
FYI
A landowner who has been granted a stay of proceedings may apply to the community (or the public authority that initiated the action) to purchase the land. The community has 1 year to decide.
When the mayor refuses your application for urban planning authorization or takes a arrested from stay of proceedings, you can challenge his decision in 2 ways:
- Appeals 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 Prefect)
You have 1 month to make a ex gratia before the mayor from the date of notification refusal (date of deposit or postmark). If your municipality is without MORE no municipal card, within the same period, you can also submit 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 hand-drop it off 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 as proof). This period remains 2 months, even if you have previously appealed to the mayor and/or the prefect.
To make your application, you must refer the case 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 building permit has a period of validity three years old.
This period shall start from notification of the decision of the town hall. It is addressed to you by post 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 begins on the following date:
- 1re presentation of registered mail
- The day after the date of electronic notification.
Without a written response from the City Council, the period of validity is calculated from the date of initial submission of the application.
Example :
A building permit order is sent by post RAR: titleContent . It shall be presented or received by hand on 22 July 2024. The permit is valid until July 22, 2027.
A building permit order is sent electronically on July 22, 2024. It is valid until July 23, 2027.
Your permission no longer valid if you do not start the works within 3 years or if after this period you interrupt them for more than 1 consecutive year.
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 urban 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 urban 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 throughout the duration of the project.
Formalism of the 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 spaces.
The display displays the following information:
- Name, company 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 area 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 involves a subdivision
- Total number of pitches and, if applicable, the number of pitches reserved for light recreational housing if the project involves a campground or residential recreational park
- Surface of the building(s) to be demolished if the project involves demolition.
The posting shall also inform of the possibilities of recourse 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 (Article R. 600-2 of the urban 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 urban planning Code). »
The declaration of commencement of construction (DOC)is mandatory. The method of transmission of your DOC differs depending on whether you are in the province or in Paris.
General scenario
Before you start your works, you must declare the opening of the construction 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 start your works, you must declare the opening of the construction site at Basu only by dematerialized means:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: electronic one-stop shop
You can start your works as soon as you receive thearrested of PC. In the absence of a response, you can start your works as soon as the inquiry period has expired.
The period of validity may be extended 2 times for a period of 1 year if the rules of urban planning 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 urban planning authorization (or before the end of the period of validity of your 1re request for extension).
Example :
An authorization valid from June 5, 2025 to June 5, 2028 can be extended for 1 year if you apply before April 5, 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 response within this period.
Only the valid urban planning permissions may be extended.
If the urban planning rules and administrative easements have changed, you cannot apply for an extension of your authorization. You must file a new application for urban planning that complies 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.
When you have finished your works, you must send to the town hall a Declaration of Completion and Compliance of works (DAACT).
The method of transmission of your DAACT differs depending on whether you are in a province or in Paris:
General scenario
You must submit your DAACT file to the town hall:
- By dematerialized method according to the arrangements made by your municipality (find out more on the website of the town hall or on site)
- By letter RAR: titleContent
- By hand.
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 submit your DAACT file to Basu: titleContent only by dematerialized means.
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: electronic one-stop shop
Your works 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 simulate the amount of your development tax and the preventive archeology tax:
Estimate the amount of urban planning fees (development fee and preventive archeology fee)
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
Works that result in the creation of floor area orright-of-way or an interior or exterior layout of your property may be affected by a PC.
Creation of floor area or footprint
Interior design works
The application for authorization is addressed to the town hall by natural persons and moral following:
- Owner(s) of the land or its agent
- Acquirer of the property
- Company authorized by the owner(s) to make the works
- Person in undivided or its authorized representative
- Trustee and co-owner
- Beneficiary of a expropriation (public service, public establishment, chamber of commerce...).)
The way to build your PC file differs depending on whether you are in Paris or another municipality.
General scenario
You must complete your PC file by dematerialized means according to the arrangements made by your municipality or on a paper form. Find out more on the town hall website or on site.
On the internet
You can fill out your PC application form on the internet:
Form
The PC form varies if you are making your works on a detached house or on another type of building.
Works on your house or building an annex (veranda, garden shed...))
You can complete your PC application using a form:
Application for a building permit for a detached house and/or its annexes (PCMI)
When several people file together a building permit, they attach a supplementary sheet in which they give the identity and contact details of each owner.
Supplementary sheet/other applicants for the same project
The building permit application file includes the form and documents to be provided.
In the form, a " attachment deposit slip » gives the full list any documents that the urban planning department may request from you.
For all projects, you must provide the following documents:
- Situation Plan land you can get on the Geoportal website
- Mass plane
- Cross-sectional plane
- Notice presenting the land, its surroundings and the project (implantation, access, parking, planned developments, materials and colors of the constructions, plantations)
- Plan of facades and roofs
- Graphical document (photomontage for example) to assess the project in relation to other nearby constructions and landscapes
- Original photograph to locate the land in its nearby environment
- Original photograph to locate the land in its distant environment.
Other documents are requested depending on the nature of your project.
The recourse to the architect may also be required for an expansion.
If the floor area of your construction is more than 150 m², you must have the plans drawn up by an architect.
If the floor area of your farm building is more than 800 m², you must have the plans drawn up by an architect.
Please note
By filling out the permit application form, you can choose to receive correspondence from the administration by LRE: titleContent or by another equivalent electronic method.
The building permit application file includes the form and documents to be provided.
In the form, a " attachment deposit slip » gives the full list any documents that the urban planning department may request from you.
For all projects, you must provide the following documents:
- Situation Plan land you can get on the Geoportal website
- Mass plane
- Cross-sectional plane
- Notice presenting the land, its surroundings and the project (implantation, access, parking, planned developments, materials and colors of the constructions, plantations)
- Plan of facades and roofs
- Graphical document (photomontage for example) to assess the project in relation to other nearby constructions and landscapes
- Original photograph to locate the land in its nearby environment
- Original photograph to locate the land in its distant environment.
Other documents are requested depending on the nature of your project.
The recourse to the architect may also be required for an expansion.
If the floor area of your construction is more than 150 m², you must have the plans drawn up by an architect.
If the floor area of your farm building is more than 800 m², you must have the plans drawn up by an architect.
Warning
If you are a legal person, other than a farm or farm equipment co-operative, you must always use an architect.
Works for building or building extensions and energy renovation works must comply with the environmental regulations 2020.
You must provide a certificate of compliance with these regulations that you can obtain on the Internet:
Certificates of consideration of environmental regulations RE 2020 and thermal RT 2012
Works on another type of building
You must fill out a form:
Application for a building permit (other than for a detached house or its annexes)
When several people file together a building permit, they attach a supplementary sheet in which they give the identity and contact details of each owner.
Supplementary sheet/other applicants for the same project
Please note
By filling out the permit application form, you can choose to receive correspondence from the administration by LRE: titleContent or by another equivalent electronic method.
The building permit application file includes the form and documents to be provided.
In the form, a " attachment deposit slip » gives the full list any documents that the urban planning department may request from you.
For all projects, you must provide the following documents:
- Situation Plan land you can get on the Geoportal website
- Mass plane
- Cross-sectional plane
- Notice presenting the land, its surroundings and the project (implantation, access, parking, planned developments, materials and colors of the constructions, plantations)
- Plan of facades and roofs
- Graphical document (photomontage for example) to assess the project in relation to other nearby constructions and landscapes
- Original photograph to locate the land in its nearby environment
- Original photograph to locate the land in its distant environment.
Other documents are requested depending on the nature of your project.
The recourse to the architect may also be required for an expansion.
If the floor area of your construction is more than 150 m², you must have the plans drawn up by an architect.
If the floor area of your farm building is more than 800 m², you must have the plans drawn up by an architect.
Warning
If you are a legal person, other than a farm or farm equipment co-operative, you must always use an architect.
Works for building or building extensions and energy renovation works must comply with the environmental regulations 2020.
You must provide a certificate of compliance with these regulations that you can obtain on the Internet:
Certificates of consideration of environmental regulations RE 2020 and thermal RT 2012
In Paris
You must complete and send your file to the Office of Reception and Service to the user (Basu: titleContent) only by dematerialized means:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: electronic one-stop shop
Depending on whether you are in Paris or another municipality, you must submit your application:
- By dematerialized method according to the arrangements made by your municipality (find out more on the website of the town hall or on site)
- By letter RAR: titleContent
- By hand.
Warning
In a municipality of more than 3,500 inhabitants, a legal person must submit its application forurban planning authorization only by electronic means.
General scenario
By internet
You can send your application via the internet:
Assistance with your urban 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 contains the registration number of your file and the information telling you the date from which the works will be able to start.
Deposit in town hall or by mail
Your permit application can be submitted or sent by mail RAR: titleContent at the town hall.
You must deposit:
- 5 complete building permit application files (6 for a project in a natural park)
- 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 contains the registration number of your file and the information telling you the date from which the works will be able to start.
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 works. They also have 1 month to inform you if your file is incomplete.
In Paris
You must complete and send your file to the Office of Reception and Service to the user (Basu: titleContent) only by dematerialized means:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: electronic one-stop shop
The starting point for the processing time differs whether your file is complete or not.
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Your file is complete
For a detached house, the time limit for the investigation shall be 3 months from the date of submission of the complete file to the town hall.
For the other projects, the time limit shall in principle be 4 months.
Your file is incomplete
Within 1 month of receiving or submitting your permit application to the town hall, it will send you a letter RAR: titleContent or by electronic means a request for missing parts.
You have 3 months to send the requested parts. If you do not provide them, your license application will be considered rejected.
The investigation delay starts when your file is complete.
For a detached house, it is from 3 months.
For the other projects, the time limit shall in principle be 4 months.
The decision is sent to you by letter RAR: titleContent or by LRE: titleContent or an equivalent electronic process.
There are several possible cases:
- Authorization or lack of response
- Authorization with prescriptions
- Refusal
- Stay of proceedings
Please note
Within 3 months of the date of the decision, the mayor may revoke a permit if he or she considers that it has been issued illegally.
Authorization or lack of response
The decision to grant you a building permit takes the form ofone arrested signed by the mayor.
If you do not receive a response from the town hall at the end of the period of instruction, your project is accepted. It is a tacit building permit.
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 government or concerns a building listed as a historic monument.
Authorization with prescriptions
If the city hall has reservations about your works, it takes a arrested with requirements. Then you have to do your works according to these imposed rules.
The reasons for the decision and the means and time limits for appeal are specified in the order.
Refusal
If the city hall refuses your project, it takes a arrested of opposition.
The reasons for the decision, the means and the time limits for appeal are specified in the order.
Stay of proceedings
In certain circumstances, the mayor can postpone his decision on your permit for up to 2 years. The mayor takes a arrested stay of proceedings which indicates its duration. Your request is neither accepted nor refused. It will be considered later.
The stay of proceedings may concern any application for authorization concerning works, structures or installations in the following cases:
- Land that is part of the perimeter of a concerted development area (Zac: titleContent)
- Initiation of the investigation prior to the declaration of public utility (DUP: titleContent) of an operation
- Proposed constructions that may compromise or make more expensive the execution of public works or the carrying out of a development operation
- Planned constructions likely to compromise or make more expensive the execution of the future local urban planning plan (MORE: titleContent)
- Project located in a space intended to be in the heart of a national park.
The reasons for the decision and the remedies and time limits for appeal are specified in the order.
Within 2 months of the expiry of the period of validity of the stay of proceedings, you must confirm your license application. Within 2 months of your request, you will receive the mayor's decision. If you do not receive the mayor's decision within this period, your permit is considered granted.
FYI
A landowner who has been granted a stay of proceedings may apply to the community (or the public authority that initiated the action) to purchase the land. The community has 1 year to decide.
When the mayor refuses your application for urban planning authorization or takes a arrested from stay of proceedings, you can challenge his decision in 2 ways:
- Appeals 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 motivated by an unfavorable opinion of theABF: titleContent, you have to make a mandatory 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 Prefect)
You have 1 month to make a ex gratia before the mayor from the date of notification refusal (date of deposit or postmark). If your municipality is without MORE no municipal card, within the same period, you can also submit 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 hand-drop it off 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 as proof). This period remains 2 months, even if you have previously appealed to the mayor and/or the prefect.
To make your application, you must refer the case 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 building permit has a period of validity three years old.
This period shall start from notification of the decision of the town hall. It is addressed to you by post 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 begins on the following date:
- 1re presentation of registered mail
- The day after the date of electronic notification.
Without a written response from the City Council, the period of validity is calculated from the date of initial submission of the application.
Example :
A building permit order is sent by post RAR: titleContent . It shall be presented or received by hand on 22 July 2024. The permit is valid until July 22, 2027.
A building permit order is sent electronically on July 22, 2024. It is valid until July 23, 2027.
Your permission no longer valid if you do not start the works within 3 years or if after this period you interrupt them for more than 1 consecutive year.
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 urban 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 urban 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 throughout the duration of the project.
Formalism of the 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 spaces.
The display displays the following information:
- Name, company 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 area 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 involves 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
- Surface of the building(s) to be demolished if the project involves demolition.
The posting shall also inform of the possibilities of recourse 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 (Article R. 600-2 of the urban 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 urban planning Code). »
The declaration of commencement of construction (DOC)is mandatory. The method of transmission of your DOC differs depending on whether you are in the province or in Paris.
General scenario
Before you start your works, you must declare the opening of the construction 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 start your works, you must declare the opening of the construction site at Basu only by dematerialized means:
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: electronic one-stop shop
You can start your works as soon as you receive thearrested of PC. In the absence of a response, you can start your works as soon as the inquiry period has expired.
The period of validity may be extended 2 times for a period of 1 year if the rules of urban planning 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 urban planning authorization (or before the end of the period of validity of your 1re request for extension).
Example :
An authorization valid from June 5, 2025 to June 5, 2028 can be extended for 1 year if you apply before April 5, 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 response within this period.
Only the valid urban planning permissions may be extended.
If the urban planning rules and administrative easements have changed, you cannot apply for an extension of your authorization. You must file a new application for urban planning that complies 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.
When you have finished your works, you must send to the town hall a Declaration of Completion and Compliance of works (DAACT).
The method of transmission of your DAACT differs depending on whether you are in a province or in Paris:
General scenario
You must submit your DAACT file to the town hall:
- By dematerialized method according to the arrangements made by your municipality (find out more on the website of the town hall or on site)
- By letter RAR: titleContent
- By hand.
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 submit your DAACT file to Basu: titleContent only by dematerialized means.
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: electronic one-stop shop
Your works 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 simulate the amount of your development tax and the preventive archeology tax:
Estimate the amount of urban planning fees (development fee and preventive archeology fee)
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 with your urban planning permission application
Reception and user service office (Basu) in Paris: electronic one-stop shop
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
For information on urban planning regulation and administrative procedures
For more information on this subject, you can contact Allô Service Public.
Please note: the service does not have access to users' personal files and cannot therefore provide information on their progress.
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