A city planning authorization cannot be canceled after a period of time
reasonable
after the decision is displayed in the field, even if the display is not complete. This is what the Council of State has just ruled in a decision of November 9, 2018, specifying that the deadline must remain less than one year to be
reasonable
.
A building permit granted must be posted on the land for an uninterrupted period of two months. In the case referred to in the decision, the mandatory indication of the length of time for which an appeal is possible was missing from that notice. That period had therefore not begun to run. A few years later, for this reason, a neighbor asked for the cancelation of the building permit.
The Conseil d'Etat has decided that a third party cannot contest a city planning authorization without a time limit. A deadline
reasonable
one year is defined, after which a remedy is no longer possible.
The Council of State also recalls that the law provides for a period of six months after the completion of the works, after which a building permit can no longer be challenged by a third party, including before the expiry of a period
