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Prior declaration Facilities and developments not subject to development permits

Cerfa 16703*03

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  • Service free
  • 7 steps
  • Language French
  • Approach to be taken before the beginning of works taking into account the investigation time the declaration of 1 to 2 months
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  • Be carefulIn a municipality of more than 3,500 inhabitants, a legal person must submit its application for an urban planning authorization only by electronic means

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Comment faire ?

You can fill out the form online or by hand :

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Fill out the online form

  1. Download the form
  2. Fill and date the form
  3. Print the form
  4. Make 1 copy of the completed form. In some cases, 1 or 2 additional copies are required:
    • 1 additional copy if your project is within the perimeter of a remarkable heritage site or other protection under historic monuments
    • 1 additional copy if your project is located in a classified or registered site or a nature reserve
    • 1 additional copy if your project is the subject of a request for exemption from the regional commission of heritage and architecture
    • 2 additional copies if your project is located in the heart of a national park
  5. Sign all copies
  6. Attach the coins requested in each of the copies
  7. Transmit at the town hall the 2 copies of the prior declaration (with 1 or 2 additional copies if necessary) by mail RAR: titleContent or by hand against a receipt or by e-mail, after having digitized the file, against a receipt consisting of the electronic acknowledgement of receipt 

Please note

If your town hall has set up an online service for the deposit of urban planning authorizations, you cannot send it your prior declaration by email.

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Fill out the form by hand

  1. Download the form
  2. Print the form
  3. Fill and date the form
  4. Make 1 copy of the completed form. In some cases, 1 or 2 additional copies are required:
    • 1 additional copy if your project is within the perimeter of a remarkable heritage site or other protection under historic monuments
    • 1 additional copy if your project is located in a classified or registered site or a nature reserve
    • 1 additional copy if your project is the subject of a request for exemption from the regional commission of heritage and architecture
    • 2 additional copies if your project is located in a national park.
  5. Sign all copies
  6. Attach the coins requested in each of the copies
  7. Transmit at the town hall the 2 copies of the pre-declaration file (with 1 or 2 additional copies if necessary) by mail RAR: titleContent or by hand against a receipt or by e-mail, after having digitized the file, against a receipt consisting of the electronic acknowledgement of receipt 

Please note

If your town hall has set up an online service for the deposit of urban planning authorizations, you cannot send it your prior declaration by email.

Who shall I contact

Information to prepare
  • Identity of the applicant(s), which includes its number SIRET when it is a question of legal person and its date of birth in the case of a natural person
  • Location and area of the land or land
  • Nature works or change of destination
  • Floor area and destination and sub-destination planned constructions, if applicable

Other information may be requested depending on the nature and situation of your project.

Documents to attach

Documents to attach obligatory a DP of new or existing construction or change of destination is

  • Situation Plan of your land
  • Mass plane of your future constructions if your project concerns constructions
  • Cross-sectional plane of your land and your construction if your project involves constructions
  • Plan your facades and roofs if your project changes the exterior appearance of the building
  • Representation of the exterior appearance of your construction if your project changes it

Other documents may be requested depending on the nature and situation of your project. They are listed in the explanatory note.

The documents optional to be attached are the following

One explanatory note on building permits, planning permits, demolition permits and the prior declaration presents all the information to be known.

One sheet helps you calculate the floor area.

Et après ?

The time limit for investigation is 1 month from the date of filing of the declaration at the town hall. Within this period, the town hall can inform you of a longer period of instruction that varies according to the situations.

Warning  

The investigation delay starts when your file is complete.

When the mayor refuses your application for urban planning authorization or takes a arrested from stay of proceedings, you can make the following recourse:

  • 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.

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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.

Who shall I contact

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.

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Verified 12 November 2026 - Public Service / (Prime Minister)