Do you need a permit to set up a cabin or any other temporary construction site?
Verified 01 October 2024 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister), Ministry of city planning
You need to set up a temporary installation on a construction site: cabin, bungalow, hut, modular construction dismountable, caravan, tent, yurt, toilet room, scaffolding, rubble bin, fence? We are taking stock of the regulations.
A temporary installation must be directly linked to the conduct of the works and the life of a construction site. For example, it allows workers to change their clothes, wash or eat. It may also allow the marketing of a building under construction. It also comprises the platform on which this installation is placed.
Permission may be required depending on whether you mount your temporary installation on a private land or on the public domain (sidewalk, square, pavement, green area).
On private land
You can set up temporary site installations on your site, regardless of their size and number, throughout the duration of the site without performing any no steps.
Warning
If the temporary site facility is used as accommodation, it is then subject to city planning authorization except in the case of a tent or yurt.
On the public domain
You can install temporary site installations on the public domain (sidewalk, square, pavement, green space) throughout the duration of the construction. To do this, you must obtain a authorisation public domain occupancy.
Please note
This authorization is precarious and revocable.
The recipient of your authorization request is different if you set up your temporary installation on the communal public domain, on a departmental road, on a national road or on a motorway:
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On the public domain of the municipality
You send your request to the town hall :
Your case will be heard within a maximum of 2 months upon receipt of your request. If you do not receive a response from the administration within this period, the request is rejected.
The answer takes the form of a decree of roads with permission or parking permit.
You must complete a form application for public domain occupation:
On a departmental road
You send your request to the departmental council road service :
Your case will be heard within a maximum of 2 months upon receipt of your request. If you do not receive a response from the administration within this period, the request is rejected.
The answer takes the form of a decree of roads with permission or parking permit.
You must complete a form application for public domain occupation:
On a national road or motorway
You address your request to the interdepartmental road authority (Dir: titleContent):
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Your case will be heard within a maximum of 2 months upon receipt of your request. If you do not receive a response from the administration within this period, the authorization is rejected.
The answer takes the form of a decree of roads with permission or parking permit.
You must complete a form application for public domain occupation:
In case of refusal to your application for authorization to occupy the public domain, you can bring the matter before the administrative court within 2 months from the date of the decision of refusal.
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
For information on a municipal public domain authorization
Town HallFor information on an authorization on a departmental road
DepartmentFor information on a national highway or highway authorization
Interdepartmental Road Directorate (Dir)
General rules of occupation of the public domain
New constructions exempt from all formalities
Articles R421-1 and R421-2: remedies
Exceptions to the rules of the "silence means acceptance" principle for acts of local and regional authorities
Exceptions to the rules of the "silence means acceptance" principle for acts of Prefectural Services