Planning Permit
Verified 12 January 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
A development permit is a city planning authorization. It allows the City Hall to control the development of a subdivision, a campsite, a parking area or a sports or leisure field.
The rules are different in protected areas. These are the remarkable heritage sites, the surroundings of historic monuments, classified sites or pending classification, natural reserves, remarkable spaces and coastal environments to be preserved.
General case
Operations | Conditions |
|---|---|
Subdivision | With the creation or fitting-out of tracks, spaces or equipment specific to the subdivision, common to several lots at the expense of the subdivision If the area of land to be developed is more than 2 500 m2, you must use a architect, or a landscape designer |
Regrouping | Carried out by a Free Urban Land Association (AFUL) when it provides for the construction of common roads or spaces |
Campground | - Creation or expansion of a land for more than 20 people or more than 6 recreational accommodation consisting of tents, caravans, mobile recreational residences or light recreational dwellings - Redevelopment of a campground, with an increase of more than 10% the number of locations - Substantial modification of vegetation which limits the visual impact of installations |
Residential leisure park | - Creation or enlargement - Redevelopment of an existing park with an increase of more than 10% the number of locations -Substantial modification of vegetation that limits the visual impact of installations |
Holiday village classified as light accommodation | Create or enlarge |
Field for motorized sports or leisure | Layout |
Amusement park and playground and sports area | Development of a park or an area of more than 2 hectares |
Golf course | Development of a plot of more than 25 hectares |
Parking area open to the public, vehicle depot and collective garages for caravans or mobile recreational residences | The layout has the effect of creating a total capacity of at least 50 units |
Visitor Reception Area and Traveler Family Grounds | Development of a built or unbuilt lot to allow the installation of more than two mobile residences constituting the permanent habitat of their user |
Land intended for the installation of demountable residences constituting the permanent habitat of their user | Development of a built or unbuilt lot to allow the installation of at least two demountable residences creating a total floor area greater than 40 m² |
Scouring of soil (digging) | Scavenging of a depth of more than 2 meters and covering an area of 2 hectares or more where it is not linked to a building permit |
Soil enhancement | Height of more than 2 meters and covering an area of 2 hectares or more |
You can use an online service to help you build your file or fill out a form.
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Assistance with requests for city planning authorization
The assistance on the application for city planning authorization guides you to complete your application for a development permit. Depending on your project, it tells you what additional documents to attach to your file.
Support for your city planning authorization request
Planning permits may be issued by the following persons:
- Owner(s) of the land or their agent
- Persons authorized by the owner(s) to carry out the work
- Co-indivisor(s) or their agent
You'll have to drop off 4 complete files in town hall. In some cases, additional copies will be asked of you. For example, you will provide an additional 1 copy of your permit file for a project in one of the following areas:
- Perimeter of a remarkable heritage site
- Historical monuments approaches
- Classified Site, Registered Site or nature reserve
You must submit 2 additional copies of the file if your project is located in a core national park. It is also necessary to attach 2 additional copies (including 1 in dematerialized form) if your project is subject to commercial authorization.
Attach 5 copies of the situational plan and the overall compositional plan to these complete files.
In the case of a construction, you must also provide 5 copies of the ground plane, the plane of the facades and roofs and the cutting plane.
If the operation is located on 2 communes, the file is preferably lodged in the municipality where the project is mainly located.
You can submit your request for authorization to the City Hall or send it by mail RAR: titleContent. You can also send it in dematerialized form according to the terms defined by your municipality. To know them, you need to get closer to the city planning department of your town hall.
Upon receipt of your permit application, the City Hall will issue you or send you a receipt with a registration number. This receipt indicates that the City Hall has 1 month to claim the missing parts of your file that you must complete within 3 months. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.
The receipt shall also indicate the date on which a tacit permit is to be issued. He specifies that the city hall has 1 month to notify you if your project cannot be subject to a tacit permit.
Finally, he mentioned that the City Hall has 1 month to inform you of a different period of instruction than that indicated to you.
Form
Your application for a development permit can be made on a form.
Application for a development permit
Planning permits may be issued by the following persons:
- Owner(s) of the land or their agent
- Persons authorized by the owner(s) to carry out the work
- Co-indivisor(s) or their agent
When several people together file a permit for the same project, they fill in a supplementary form in which they give their identity and their contact details.
Supplementary sheet / other applicants for the same project
You'll have to drop off 4 complete files in town hall . In some cases, additional copies will be asked of you. For example, you will provide an additional 1 copy of your permit file for a project in one of the following areas:
- Perimeter of a remarkable heritage site
- Historical monuments approaches
- Classified Site, Registered Site or nature reserve
You must submit 2 additional copies of the file if your project is located in a core national park. It is also necessary to attach 2 additional copies (including 1 in dematerialized form) if your project is subject to commercial authorization.
Attach 5 copies of the situational plan and the overall compositional plan to these complete files.
In the case of a construction, you must also provide 5 copies of the ground plane, the plane of the facades and roofs and the cutting plane.
If the operation is located on 2 communes, the file is preferably lodged in the municipality where the project is mainly located.
You can submit your request for authorization to the City Hall or send it by mail RAR: titleContent. You can also send it in dematerialized form according to the terms defined by your municipality. To know them, you need to get closer to the city planning department of your town hall.
Upon receipt of your permit application, the City Hall will issue you or send you a receipt with a registration number. This receipt indicates that the City Hall has 1 month to claim the missing parts of your file that you must complete within 3 months. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.
The receipt shall also indicate the date on which a tacit permit is to be issued. He specifies that the city hall has 1 month to notify you if your project cannot be subject to a tacit permit.
Finally, he mentioned that the City Hall has 1 month to inform you of a different period of instruction than that indicated to you.
Please note
a notice of application for a permit is posted in the town hall within 15 days of your submission and throughout the investigation of the file. This notice details the essential characteristics of your project.
The response time is usually 3 months from the date of submission of the application.
If the processing time is longer, the city hall must notify you within one month of the filing of your permit file.
Indeed, the time limit for the investigation is increased to 4 months (3 months + 1 month) when your project is within the scope of a remarkable heritage site or near historic monuments. The same applies when the project is to be submitted for the opinion of the departmental committee for the preservation of natural, agricultural and forestry areas.
The time limit for the investigation shall be increased to 5 months (3 months + 2 months), where, for example, the project is subject to commercial exploitation authorization. The same applies to an operation situated in an area intended to be classified in the heart of a future national park or in the heart of a defined national park.
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Acceptance
The decision of the city council takes the form of an order. This decision is addressed to you by letter RAR: titleContent or by email. The decision may be accompanied by special requirements for which the administration must give the reasons.
The permit order informs you of the contributions which you will have to pay. They correspond to the following participations:
- Participation for Comprehensive Development Programs (CAP)
- Sewer Connection Participation (SDI)
- Participation in the construction of public parking lots (PNRAS)
- Participation for Exceptional Public Facilities (PEPE)
- Participation for roads and networks (PVR)
Warning
within 3 months of the date of the permit decision, the city council may withdraw a permit if it considers that it has been issued illegally.
Refusal
The refusal of a development permit takes the form of an order which specifies all the grounds for refusal of the administration. It shall also indicate the ways and time limits for appeal. This decision is addressed to you by letter RAR: titleContent or by email.
You can challenge the legality of the decision, within 2 months from the date of notification. You can make a ex gratia appeal to the author of the refusal decision, by letter RAR: titleContent. Failure to respond within 2 months is considered an implicit rejection. You can then file a contentious appeal with the administrative court within 2 months of the reply or the absence of a reply.
You can also to bring proceedings before the administrative court, within 2 months of the date of notification of the decision to refuse the permit, without making an ex gratia appeal.
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Who shall I contact
Stay of proceedings
The city council can suspend its decision for up to 2 years. It then takes a decision to stay the proceedings, which indicates the duration of the proceedings.
The decision on any application for authorization concerning works, constructions or installations may be suspended in the following cases:
- The land is within the perimeter of a Concerted Development Area (CPA)
- At the time of the initiation of the pre-declaration of public interest (DUP) investigation of a transaction
- Planned construction may jeopardize or make more expensive the execution of public works or the carrying out of a development operation
- The planned constructions are likely to jeopardize or make more expensive the execution of the future MORE: titleContent
- The project is located in a space intended to be in the heart of a national park
At the end of the period of stay to decide, the City Hall must, upon simple confirmation of your permit application, examine your file and decide on your project within 2 months.
FYI
landowners who have been granted a stay of proceedings may demand that the community (or the public service which has taken the initiative) purchase their land.
Lack of response
In principle, if you do not receive a reply from the City Hall after the end of the investigation period, the license is tacitly granted. On request from you, the City Hall can issue you a tacit permit certificate.
Warning
within 3 months of the date of the permit decision, the city council may withdraw a permit if it considers that it has been issued illegally.
The absence of a response from the administration is also valid implied decision to reject in the following cases:
- Draft submitted for opinion to the departmental commission for commercial development
- Project to extend or reopen a cinema whose application has been refused by the competent departmental committee
- Work subject to authorization by the Minister of Defense
You can appeal to the Administrative Court within 2 months of the tacit rejection of the license.
The display of the city planning authorization or tacit permit on the ground is obligatory. You must display this view on notification of the order or as soon as the time limit for the investigation of your case is over (tacit permit).
It must remain in place for the duration of the work and be visible from the outside.
You must use a rectangular panel with dimensions greater than 80 cm. The information on your billboard must be legible on the public highway or in spaces open to the public.
The display shows the following information:
- Beneficiary's name, business name or trade name
- Date and number of permit
- Nature of the project, land area
- Address of the town hall where the file can be consulted
- Name of the architect who created the architectural project
It shall also indicate, depending on the nature of the project, the following:
- Area of the net floor area and the height of the building(s), expressed in meters in relation to the natural ground, if the project foresees construction
- Maximum number of lots expected if the project is on a subdivision
- Total number of pitches and, if applicable, the number of pitches reserved for light recreational dwellings if the project involves a campground or a residential recreational park
- Area of building(s) to be demolished if the project involves demolitions
The display shall also mention the possibility for third party to exercise a appeal and notify the licensee within 15 days of their appeal.
For 2 months from 1er field display day, your neighbors can perform a ex gratia appeal to the mayor who issued the authorization. In the absence of a notice, they will be able to contest the authorization for 6 months after the completion of the work.
An extract of the permit is displayed in the town hall within 8 days of the issuance of the authorization and for 2 months.
The development permit has a period of validity of 3 years. It expires if you have not started the work within 3 years or if, after this period, you interrupt it for more than 1 year.
However, the deadline can be extended twice for 1 year. You must apply at least 2 months before the end of your license. This request for an extension must be made in 2 copies by letter RAR: titleContent or dropped off in town hall.
The city council has 2 months to submit its response. If the City Hall has not replied within this period, your request for an extension is accepted.
Protected area
Operations | Conditions |
|---|---|
Subdivision | Subdivision located on the perimeter of a remarkable heritage site, on the edge of a historic monument, in a classified site or under classification. If the area of land to be developed is more than 2 500 m2, you need to hire an architect, or a landscape designer. |
Regrouping | Carried out by a Free Urban Land Association (AFUL) when it provides for the construction of common roads or spaces |
Campground | Creation or expansion of a land for more than 20 people or more than 6 recreational accommodations consisting of tents, caravans, mobile recreational residences or light recreational dwellings Redevelopment of a campground, with an increase of more than 10% the number of locations Substantial change in vegetation that limits the visual impact of installations |
Residential leisure park | - Creation or enlargement - Redevelopment of an existing park with an increase of more than 10% the number of locations - Substantial modification of vegetation which limits the visual impact of installations |
Holiday village classified as light accommodation | Create or enlarge |
Field for motorized sports or leisure | Layout |
Amusement park and playground and sports area | All projects located within the perimeter of a remarkable heritage site, on the edge of a historic monument, in a classified or pending site or in a nature reserve |
Golf course | All projects located within the perimeter of a remarkable heritage site, on the edge of a historic monument, in a classified or pending site or in a nature reserve |
Parking area open to the public, vehicle depot and collective garages for caravans or mobile recreational residences | Any project located within the perimeter of a remarkable heritage site, on the edge of a historic monument, in a classified or pending site or in a nature reserve |
Visitor Reception Area and Traveler Family Grounds | Development of a built or unbuilt lot to allow the installation of more than two mobile residences constituting the permanent habitat of their user |
Land intended for the installation of demountable residences constituting the permanent habitat of their user | Development of a built or unbuilt lot to allow the installation of at least two demountable residences creating a total floor area greater than 40 m2 |
Scouring of soil (digging) | Scouring of a depth of more than 2 meters and covering an area of 100 m² or more when it is not tied to a building permit |
Soil enhancement | Height of more than 2 meters and covering an area of not less than 100 m² |
Public space | Creation within the perimeter of a remarkable heritage site, on the edge of a historic monument, in a classified or pending site or in a nature reserve |
Track | Creation or modification of an existing lane within the perimeter of remarkable heritage sites and around historic monuments |
Light fittings, necessary for the management, economic development or opening to the public of remarkable spaces (road, parking, wildlife observation post...) | In a remarkable space or mid-shore identified in a city planning document as being to be preserved |
You can use an online service to help you build your file or fill out a form.
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Assistance with requests for city planning authorization
The assistance on the application for city planning authorization guides you to complete your application for a development permit. Depending on your project, it tells you what additional documents to attach to your file.
Support for your city planning authorization request
Planning permits may be issued by the following persons:
- Owner(s) of the land or their agent
- Persons authorized by the owner(s) to carry out the work
- Co-indivisor(s) or their agent
You'll have to drop off 4 complete files in town hall. In some cases, additional copies will be asked of you. For example, you will provide an additional 1 copy of your permit file for a project in one of the following areas:
- Perimeter of a remarkable heritage site
- Historical monuments approaches
- Classified Site, Registered Site or nature reserve
You must submit 2 additional copies of the file if your project is located in a core national park. It is also necessary to attach 2 additional copies (including 1 in dematerialized form) if your project is subject to commercial authorization.
Attach 5 copies of the situational plan and the overall compositional plan to these complete files.
In the case of a construction, you must also provide 5 copies of the ground plane, the plane of the facades and roofs and the cutting plane.
If the operation is located on 2 communes, the file is preferably lodged in the municipality where the project is mainly located.
You can submit your request for authorization to the City Hall or send it by mail RAR: titleContent. You can also send it in dematerialized form according to the terms defined by your municipality. To know them, you need to get closer to the city planning department of your town hall.
Upon receipt of your permit application, the City Hall will issue you or send you a receipt with a registration number. This receipt indicates that the City Hall has 1 month to claim the missing parts of your file that you must complete within 3 months. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.
The receipt shall also indicate the date on which a tacit permit is to be issued. He specifies that the city hall has 1 month to notify you if your project cannot be subject to a tacit permit.
Finally, he mentioned that the City Hall has 1 month to inform you of a different period of instruction than that indicated to you.
Form
Your application for a development permit can be made on a form.
Application for a development permit
Planning permits may be issued by the following persons:
- Owner(s) of the land or their agent
- Persons authorized by the owner(s) to carry out the work
- Co-indivisor(s) or their agent
When several people together file a permit for the same project, they fill in a supplementary form in which they give their identity and their contact details.
Supplementary sheet / other applicants for the same project
You'll have to drop off 4 complete files in town hall . In some cases, additional copies will be asked of you. For example, you will provide an additional 1 copy of your permit file for a project in one of the following areas:
- Perimeter of a remarkable heritage site
- Historical monuments approaches
- Classified Site, Registered Site or nature reserve
You must submit 2 additional copies of the file if your project is located in a core national park. It is also necessary to attach 2 additional copies (including 1 in dematerialized form) if your project is subject to commercial authorization.
Attach 5 copies of the situational plan and the overall compositional plan to these complete files.
In the case of a construction, you must also provide 5 copies of the ground plane, the plane of the facades and roofs and the cutting plane.
If the operation is located on 2 communes, the file is preferably lodged in the municipality where the project is mainly located.
You can submit your request for authorization to the City Hall or send it by mail RAR: titleContent. You can also send it in dematerialized form according to the terms defined by your municipality. To know them, you need to get closer to the city planning department of your town hall.
Upon receipt of your permit application, the City Hall will issue you or send you a receipt with a registration number. This receipt indicates that the City Hall has 1 month to claim the missing parts of your file that you must complete within 3 months. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.
The receipt shall also indicate the date on which a tacit permit is to be issued. He specifies that the city hall has 1 month to notify you if your project cannot be subject to a tacit permit.
Finally, he mentioned that the City Hall has 1 month to inform you of a different period of instruction than that indicated to you.
Please note
a notice of application for a permit is posted in the town hall within 15 days of your submission and throughout the investigation of the file. This notice details the essential characteristics of your project.
The response time is usually 3 months from the date of submission of the application.
If the processing time is longer, the city hall must notify you within one month of the filing of your permit file.
Indeed, the time limit for the investigation is increased to 4 months (3 months + 1 month) when your project is within the scope of a remarkable heritage site or near historic monuments. The same applies when the project is to be submitted for the opinion of the departmental committee for the preservation of natural, agricultural and forestry areas.
The time limit for the investigation shall be increased to 5 months (3 months + 2 months), where, for example, the project is subject to commercial exploitation authorization. The same applies to an operation situated in an area intended to be classified in the heart of a future national park or in the heart of a defined national park.
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Acceptance
The decision of the city council takes the form of an order. This decision is addressed to you by letter RAR: titleContent or by email. The decision may be accompanied by special requirements for which the administration must give the reasons.
The permit order informs you of the contributions which you will have to pay. They correspond to the following participations:
- Participation for Comprehensive Development Programs (CAP)
- Sewer Connection Participation (SDI)
- Participation in the construction of public parking lots (PNRAS)
- Participation for Exceptional Public Facilities (PEPE)
- Participation for roads and networks. (PVR)
Warning
within 3 months of the date of the permit decision, the city council may withdraw a permit if it considers that it has been issued illegally.
Refusal
The refusal of a development permit takes the form of an order which specifies all the grounds for refusal of the administration. It shall also indicate the ways and time limits for appeal. This decision is addressed to you by letter RAR: titleContent or by email.
You can challenge the legality of the decision, within 2 months of the date of notification. You can make a ex gratia appeal to the author of the refusal decision, by letter RAR: titleContent. Failure to respond within 2 months is considered an implicit rejection. You can then file a contentious appeal with the administrative court within 2 months of the reply or the absence of a reply.
You can also to bring proceedings before the administrative court within 2 months of the date of notification of the decision to refuse the permit, without making an ex gratia appeal.
Who shall I contact
Who shall I contact
Stay of proceedings
The city council can suspend its decision for up to 2 years. It then takes a decision to stay the proceedings, which indicates the duration of the proceedings.
The decision on any application for authorization concerning works, constructions or installations may be suspended in the following cases:
- The land is within the perimeter of a Concerted Development Area (CPA)
- At the time of the initiation of the pre-declaration of public interest (DUP) investigation of a transaction
- Planned construction may jeopardize or make more expensive the execution of public works or the carrying out of a development operation
- The planned constructions are likely to jeopardize or make more expensive the execution of the future MORE: titleContent
- The project is located in a space intended to be in the heart of a national park
At the end of the period of stay to decide, the City Hall must, upon simple confirmation of your permit application, examine your file and decide on your project within 2 months.
FYI
landowners who have been granted a stay of proceedings may demand that the community (or the public service which has taken the initiative) purchase their land.
Lack of response
In principle, if you do not receive a reply from the City Hall after the end of the investigation period, the license is tacitly granted. On request from you, the City Hall can issue you a tacit permit certificate. If you do not obtain it within 2 months of your request, you can appeal to the administrative tribunal.
Who shall I contact
Warning
within 3 months of the date of the permit decision, the city council may withdraw a permit if it considers that it has been issued illegally.
The absence of a response from the administration is also valid implied decision to reject in the following cases:
- Draft submitted for opinion to the departmental commission for commercial development
- Project to extend or reopen a cinema whose application has been refused by the competent departmental committee
- Work subject to authorization by the Minister of Defense
- Project on a building listed as a historic monument
- Project located in an area intended to be classified in the heart of a future national park
- Project located in the heart of a demarcated national park
- Decision subject to the agreement of the architect of the buildings of France after notification an unfavorable opinion or a favorable opinion with requirements for the applicant for the permit
- Demolition Licensed Project in Canada registered site
You can appeal to the Administrative Court within two months of the tacit rejection of a license.
The display of the city planning authorization or tacit permit on the ground is obligatory. You must display this view on notification of the order or as soon as the time limit for the investigation of your case is over (tacit permit).
It must remain in place for the duration of the work and be visible from the outside.
You must use a rectangular panel with dimensions greater than 80 cm. The information on your billboard must be legible on the public highway or in spaces open to the public.
The display shows the following information:
- Beneficiary's name, business name or trade name
- Date and number of permit
- Nature of the project, land area
- Address of the town hall where the file can be consulted
- Name of the architect who created the architectural project
It shall also indicate, depending on the nature of the project, the following:
- Area of the net floor area and the height of the building(s), expressed in meters in relation to the natural ground, if the project foresees construction
- Maximum number of lots expected if the project is on a subdivision
- Total number of pitches and, if applicable, the number of pitches reserved for light recreational dwellings if the project involves a campground or a residential recreational park
- Area of building(s) to be demolished if the project involves demolitions
The display shall also mention the possibility for third party to exercise a appeal and notify the licensee within 15 days of their appeal.
For 2 months from 1er field display day, your neighbors can perform a ex gratia appeal to the mayor who issued the authorization. In the absence of a notice, they will be able to contest the authorization for 6 months after the completion of the work.
An extract of the permit is displayed in the town hall within 8 days of the issuance of the authorization and for 2 months.
The development permit has a period of validity of 3 years. It expires if you have not started the work within 3 years or if, after this period, you interrupt it for more than 1 year.
However, the deadline can be extended twice for 1 year. You must apply at least 2 months before the end of your license. This request for an extension must be made in 2 copies by letter RAR: titleContent or dropped off in town hall.
The city council has 2 months to submit its response. If the City Hall has not replied within this period, your request for an extension is accepted.
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The informants who answer you belong to the ministry in charge of housing and city planning.
Cost: free service
Attention: the service does not have access to users' personal files and therefore cannot provide information on their progress.
The service is available at the following times:
- Monday: 8.30am to 5.30pm
- Tuesday: 8:30 to 12:15
- Wednesday: 8:30 to 12:15
- Thursday: 8.30am to 5.30pm
- Friday: 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m
- Lundi : de 08h30 à 16h15
- Mardi : de 08h30 à 12h15
- Mercredi : de 08h30 à 12h15
- Jeudi : de 08h30 à 17h30
- Vendredi : de 13h00 à 16h15
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