Building Permits

Before a single drawing, you obtain an information file from the authority. It consolidates everything allowed on the plot: land designation, building percentages, number of stories, height, building lines, and the spatial guidelines from the applicable zoning plans, and it sets the threshold conditions up to the permit.

The file is delivered within 30 working days and is valid for two years. This is effectively where the buildable envelope is set, so a proper feasibility check at this stage prevents designing on rights that do not exist.

• Consolidates rights, uses, building lines, and guidelines
• Delivered within 30 working days, valid for two years
• Sets the threshold conditions for submission
• The basis for feasibility before any commitment

The application is filed online by a licensed application editor. After a threshold check it moves to spatial review, where the committee checks conformity with the zoning plan, the building lines, and the rights. For an application conforming to the plan with no relief, the decision is given within 45 working days, and with relief or nonconforming use within 90 working days.

After committee approval comes design control (usually at a control institute), and then a payment demand. With payment, the permit is issued, and it is now valid for six years. We manage all of these junctions for you and with the authority.

• Filed online by a licensed application editor
• Spatial review: 45 working days without relief, 90 with
• Design control, then a payment demand
• The permit is valid for six years from issuance

Not every job needs the same route. Simple, safe works (a pergola, a small shed, a fence) are exempt from a permit under the exemption regulations, as long as they do not conflict with the zoning plan. Small works that do not harm neighbors go through a short-track license, with a fast answer.

Complex projects go through the full licensing route. Identifying the right route at the start is the difference between a process of weeks and one of a year, and this is exactly where professional guidance pays off.

• Permit exemption: simple works that do not conflict with zoning
• Short track: small works, a fast answer
• Full licensing: complex projects and a consultant team
• Choosing the right route saves months

When you want to deviate from the zoning plan there are two mechanisms: relief (Section 147), a deviation that is not “substantial,” and nonconforming use (Section 146), a use different from what is permitted, for a fixed period. Both require publication, a sign on site, and notice to neighbors, with 15 days to file objections.

It is important to know: Amendment 134 sharply reduced quantitative relief, and Amendment 160 (2025) restored a limited mechanism for older existing buildings. We build the application to meet the current rules and not get stuck on unnecessary objections.

• Relief (Section 147): a non-substantial deviation from the plan
• Nonconforming use (Section 146): a different use for a fixed period
• Publication and 15 days for objections
• Designed to the current 2025 rules

The control institute is an independent professional body that checks the design before the permit and the execution on site. The review areas include stability and founding, waterproofing, fire safety, electricity, accessibility, ventilation, drainage, and protection. The duty applies to certain residential buildings.

Alongside the institute, a full application requires a consultant team: a structural engineer, plumbing, accessibility, protection and Home Front Command approval for the safe room, and fire safety. Without Home Front Command approval, for example, you cannot pour concrete. We bring all the consultants and approvals under one roof.

• Design control and execution control by an independent body
• Stability, waterproofing, fire, electricity, accessibility, protection
• A full consultant team under one management
• Home Front Command approval as a condition for pouring

At the end of construction comes Form 4, the occupancy approval that connects the building to electricity, water, and sewage, and consolidates approvals from the Home Front Command, fire services, the water utility, and more. Within a year you apply for a completion certificate. A building without Form 4 is a violation, is charged a high electricity rate, and cannot be sold.

On the financial side: a nationwide flat building fee, municipal development levies that vary between authorities, and a betterment levy of 50% of the value increase, with an exemption for a home up to 140 sqm and for a safe room. We make sure everything closes correctly through the completion certificate.

• Form 4 connects utilities and consolidates approvals
• Completion certificate within a year, full conformity
• Flat building fee, development levies, and betterment levy
• Betterment exemption up to 140 sqm and for a safe room