Parking permits and road permits

Verified 20 July 2022 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister), Ministry of city planning

To carry out work on the road network or occupy the public domain of roads, you must obtain a Temporary Occupancy Permit (TIA). Parking permit is required for operations without ground installation. Road permission is for work that modifies the ground or subsoil in the public domain.

Parking Permit

The parking permit allows you to occupy the public domain without doing work on the basement.

You must obtain this permission for the following operations:

  • Installation of rubble dump, scaffolding or trellis on the sidewalk
  • Deposit of materials needed for a construction site (e.g. sand heap)
  • Temporary parking of machinery (crane, pod truck, etc.), construction barracks, sales offices, pickup trucks, moving trucks or furniture hoists, for example

The parking permit is precarious and revocable. The administration may withdraw the authorization in the following cases:

  • Failure to comply with technical or financial conditions
  • Failure to comply with the deadline
  • Expiry of time limit
  • Ground of public interest

You must make your request, giving the nature and date of the work, using the following form:

Application for permission or authorization of roads, parking permits, or authorization to undertake work

You must attach the following documents to your file:

  • 1/10,000 or 1/20,000 Scenario Plane
  • Precise location plan at scale 1/1 000 or 1/2 000e
  • Location Photo

Other parts listed in the form may be requested depending on your project.

If the construction site affects public traffic, the application must be accompanied by a application for a traffic order for setting up a signaling system.

Traffic restrictions may, for example, take one of the following forms:

  • Road Closure to Traffic
  • Alternating traffic by traffic lights or manually (neutralization of a track)
  • Pavement Restrictions
  • Tilting on opposite pavement for roads with separate carriageways
  • Prohibitions on driving, parking or exceeding by category of vehicle
  • Priority schemes
  • Speed, gage or weight limitations

You must use the following form:

Request for a traffic police order

Attach the following documents to your file:

  • Detailed instructions, including an assessment of the discomfort caused to users
  • Situation plan 1/10 or 1/20,000e
  • Work plan 1/200 or 1/500e
  • Signaling scheme
  • 1/2,000 or 1/5,000 deviation routee

You must send your parking permit file to the authority in charge of the traffic police. You can drop it off on site or send it by mail, preferably inRAR: titleContent.

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In built-up areas

You must send your file to the City Hall for the communication routes within the agglomeration, except for roads classified with heavy traffic. In some cities, you have to address your request to the community of municipalities.

Who shall I contact

Departmental roads

You must send your file to the road service of the departmental council.

Who shall I contact

National roads and motorways

You must send your application to the interdepartmental road authority for motorways, national roads and roads classified as major traffic in agglomerations.

Depending on the municipality, the processing time for the application is generally between 2 weeks and 1 month.

It cannot exceed 2 months. In the absence of a reply within this maximum period, the permit shall be deemed to have been refused.

Authorization to occupy the public domain takes the form of a road stop for a fixed term and, where appropriate, a traffic order which permits the interruption or alteration of traffic.

While the work is going on, you have to consider safety in the public interest. You must also repair the damage to the roadway and restore the premises to good condition at the end of the authorization.

Some town halls issue a badge to be affixed to the vehicle concerned or an authorization to be displayed visibly from the public road at the site of the construction site.

Warning  

the authorization cannot be tacitly renewed. If you need to extend your authorization, you must make a new application.

Occupation or use of the public domain shall give rise to payment of a fee. The managing authority in the public domain shall determine the fee schedule.

The authorization may be issued free of charge for various operations, including:

  • Ensuring the preservation of the public domain
  • Carrying out the tasks of the State services responsible for peace, security and public order or border control at airports, ports and railway stations
  • Carrying out work on railway or guided public transport infrastructure

It can be issued free of charge to associations non-profit organizations which contribute to the satisfaction of a general interest.

You will have to pay a fine for fourth-class contraventions, until €750 , in the following 2 cases:

  • Non-compliance with the rules of the road order on the occupied space or periods of occupation resulting in a hindrance to free movement on the public road
  • Unnecessary deposit of materials or articles which impede or impair the freedom or safety of passage, including garbage or waste

Permission to Road

Road permission is a temporary authorization. It allows you to occupy the public domain. It applies to works that change the public domain on the ground or in the subsoil, such as the following operations:

  • Creation on a sidewalk of an access boat (or cart entrance) to a private property or a garage
  • Construction of a petrol station
  • Installation of bus stop, newsstand or street furniture (kiosk, commercial sign, sign ...)
  • Piping and other underground networks
  • Installation of fences or fences of construction sites sealed in the ground for example

Road permission is precarious and revocable. The administration may withdraw the authorization in the following cases:

  • Failure to comply with technical or financial conditions
  • Failure to comply with the deadline
  • Expiry of time limit
  • Ground of public interest

You must make your request, giving the nature and date of the work, using the following form:

Application for permission or authorization of roads, parking permits, or authorization to undertake work

You must attach the following documents to your file:

  • 1/10,000 or 1/20,000 Scenario Plane
  • Precise location plan at scale 1/1 000 or 1/2 000e
  • Location Photo

Other parts listed in the form may be requested depending on your project.

If the construction site affects public traffic, the application must be accompanied by a application for a traffic order for setting up a signaling system.

Traffic restrictions may, for example, take one of the following forms:

  • Road Closure to Traffic
  • Alternating traffic by traffic lights or manually (neutralization of a track)
  • Pavement Restrictions
  • Tilting on opposite pavement for roads with separate carriageways
  • Prohibitions on driving, parking or exceeding by category of vehicle
  • Priority schemes
  • Speed, gage or weight limitations

You must use the following form:

Request for a traffic police order

You must attach the following documents to your file:

  • Detailed instructions, including an assessment of the discomfort caused to users
  • Situation plan 1/10 or 1/20,000e
  • Work plan 1/200 or 1/500e
  • Signaling scheme
  • 1/2,000 or 1/5,000 deviation routee

You must send your request for road permission to the authority in charge of road network management. You can drop it off on site or send it by mail, preferably in RAR: titleContent.

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In built-up areas

You must send your file to the City Hall for the communication routes within the metropolitan area.

In some cities, you have to address your request to the community of municipalities.

Who shall I contact

Departmental roads

You must send your file to the road services of the departmental council.

Who shall I contact

National roads and motorways

Your application must be submitted to the Interdepartmental Roads Directorate for unlicensed motorways and national roads.

Depending on the municipality, the processing time for the application is generally between 2 weeks and 1 month.

It may not exceed 2 months. In the absence of a reply within this maximum period, the permit shall be deemed to have been refused.

Authorization to occupy the public domain takes the form of a road stop for a fixed term and, where appropriate, a traffic order which permits the interruption or alteration of traffic.

While the work is going on, you have to consider safety in the public interest. You must also repair the damage to the roadway and restore the premises to good condition at the end of the authorization.

Some town halls issue a badge to be affixed to the vehicle concerned or an authorization to be displayed visibly from the public road at the site of the construction site.

Warning  

the authorization cannot be tacitly renewed. If you need to extend your authorization, you must make a new application.

Occupation or use of the public domain shall give rise to payment of a fee. The managing authority in the public domain shall determine the fee schedule.

The authorization may be issued free of charge for various operations, including:

  • Ensuring the preservation of the public domain
  • Carrying out the tasks of the State services responsible for peace, security and public order or border control at airports, ports and railway stations
  • Carrying out work on railway or guided public transport infrastructure

It can be issued free of charge to associations non-profit organizations which contribute to the satisfaction of a general interest.

You will have to pay a penalty for contraventions of section 4e class, up to €750, in the following 2 cases:

  • Non-compliance with the rules of the road order on the occupied space or periods of occupation resulting in a hindrance to free movement on the public road
  • Unnecessary deposit of materials or articles which impede or impair the freedom or safety of passage, including garbage or waste