Demolition permit
Verified 11 January 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
The demolition permit is a city planning permit. You must obtain it before the partial or total demolition of a building located in an area where this permit is mandatory. Where demolition is related to a construction or development project, the application may be made with the application for a building or development permit.
A demolition permit is required prior to the partial or total demolition of a building located in one of the following areas:
- Municipality in which the municipal council introduced the permit
- Perimeter of a remarkable heritage site listed, near historic monuments or listed as historic monuments
- Scope of a real estate restoration operation
- Registered Site or site classified or pending classification
To find out if your demolition project is subject to a permit, you must ask your local city planning department.
The permit application is sent to the City Hall by one of the natural or moral following:
- Owner(s) of the land(s), their representative or one or more persons attesting to their authorization to carry out the work
- Co-partner(s) or their agent, if undivided
- Territorial community benefiting from expropriation for reasons of public interest
You can use an online service to build your file or fill out a form.
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Demolition
Assistance with requests for city planning authorization
The city planning permit application assistance guides you through the completion of your demolition permit application. Depending on your project, it determines the list of attachments to your folder.
Support for your city planning authorization request
You can submit your authorization request 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.
If you file your application by paper, it must be established in 4 copies.
Form
Your demolition permit application can be made on a form.
If more than one person applies for a joint authorization for the same project, they must fill in a supplementary form.
Supplementary sheet / other applicants for the same project
The demolition permit file includes the following documents:
- Form
- Attachment Slip which identifies the parts to be provided according to your project
Certain documents must be attached to the file:
- Situation plan the land within the municipality which specifies its scale and orientation in relation to the north
- Ground plane of the buildings, listed in the 3 dimensions which specifies its scale and the orientation of the land with respect to the north
- Photo building to be demolished
Other parts may be needed, depending on your project.
FYI
the administration can only ask for the documents provided in the attachment slip.
You can submit your authorization request 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.
If you file your application by paper, it must be established in 4 copies.
Demolition with reconstruction
Assistance with requests for city planning authorization
The city planning permit application assistance guides you through the completion of your demolition permit application. Depending on your project, it determines the list of attachments to your folder.
Support for your city planning authorization request
You can submit your authorization request 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.
If you file your application by paper, it must be established in 4 copies.
Form
Where demolition is dependent on a construction or development project, the application form for building permit or to arrange also allows you to request permission to demolish.
To demolish a detached house, you will use the following form:
Application for a building permit for a detached house and/or its annexes (CMIP)
For other types of demolition, you will use the following form:
Application for a building permit (other than for a detached house or its annexes)
If more than one person applies for a joint authorization for the same project, they must fill in a supplementary form.
Supplementary sheet / other applicants for the same project
You can submit your authorization request 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.
If you file your application by paper, it must be established in 4 copies.
General case
Demolition permit
The time limit for processing your request is 2 months. City Hall has 1 month to claim the missing coins from you. In this case, you will have 3 months to complete your file. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.
The period of investigation begins from the receipt in the town hall of the complete permit file.
Building permit for a detached house with demolition
The time limit for processing your request is 2 months. City Hall has 1 month to claim the missing coins from you. In this case, you will have 3 months to complete your file. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.
The period of investigation begins from the receipt in the town hall of the complete permit file.
Building permit or demolition planning permit
The time limit for processing your request is 3 months. City Hall has 1 month to claim the missing coins from you. In this case, you will have 3 months to complete your file. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.
The period of investigation begins from the receipt in the town hall of the complete permit file.
In protected area
Demolition permit
The time limit for processing your request is 3 months. City Hall has 1 month to claim the missing coins from you. In this case, you will have 3 months to complete your file. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.
The period of investigation begins from the receipt in the town hall of the complete permit file.
Building permit for a detached house with demolition
The time limit for processing your request is 3 months. City Hall has 1 month to claim the missing coins from you. In this case, you will have 3 months to complete your file. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.
The period of investigation begins from the receipt in the town hall of the complete permit file.
Building permit or demolition planning permit
The time limit for processing your request is 4 months. City Hall has 1 month to claim the missing coins from you. In this case, you will have 3 months to complete your file. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.
The period of investigation begins from the receipt in the town hall of the complete permit file.
Within 15 days of filing your application and throughout the investigation, the City Hall displays a notice of filing of the demolition permit application. This notice includes the essential characteristics of your project.
The city hall can accept or refuse your permit application. It can also suspend its decision (we speak of stay of proceedings).
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Acceptance
The city council's decision takes the form ofone by-law. This decision is addressed to you by letter RAR: titleContent or by email.
If your work may compromise the protection or presentation of built heritage, neighborhoods, monuments and sites, the demolition permit is granted with specific rules to be respected. The city hall has to justify its decision.
Warning
within three months of the date of its decision, the city council may withdraw a permit if it considers that it has been issued illegally.
Refusal
The refusal of demolition permits takes the form of a by-law justifying the decision. It shall also indicate the remedies and time limits for appeal. This decision is addressed to you by post RAR: titleContent or by email.
Within 2 months of the refusal, you can, with the reasons for your request, make a ex gratia appeal to the city hall against the decision.
This appeal shall be drawn up on free paper and shall be sent by letter RAR: titleContent.
Who shall I contact
The administration has 2 months to respond. If you do not receive an answer, your appeal is dismissed. When this 2-month period is over and the answer is not suitable for you, you have again 2 months to make a contentious appeal before the administrative court.
You can also apply directly to the administrative judge within 2 months of the refusal of the permit.
Who shall I contact
Failure to respond by the end of the period of investigation announced
If you don't get a response from the city council after the deadline they have told you, it means they're not opposing your project. You benefit from a tacit demolition permit. You can start the work 15 days later.
In practice, it is in your interest to ask the City Hall for a certificate attesting to its lack of opposition. It must deliver it to you on request, preferably by letter RAR: titleContent.
This allows you to have proof of the reality of the tacit decision.
Warning
you cannot obtain a tacit permit in certain situations (unfavorable opinion of the architect of the buildings of France, construction located in a national park...).
Stay of proceedings
By taking a reasoned decision the mayor may suspend its decision for a maximum period of two years. Its duration must be specified in the decision.
At the end of the stay of proceedings, the City Hall must, upon simple confirmation of your permit application, examine your file and decide on your project within 2 months of your application.
The demolition permit is valid for 3 years.
The authorization expires if you have not started the work within 3 years or if, after this period, you interrupt it for more than one year.
However, the period of validity of the permit may be extended twice for one year. You must apply at least 2 months before your license expires. This request for an extension must be made in 2 copies by letter RAR: titleContent or dropped off in town hall.
The extension is granted if the City Hall does not send you a decision within 2 months of receiving your request.
L'display of tacit authorization or permit on the ground is mandatory. You must display this view on notification of the permit order or as soon as the time limit for the investigation of your file has expired (tacit permit).
The display shall 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 must show the possibility for third parties to exercise appeal and notify the licensee within 15 days of their appeal.
An extract of the permit is displayed in the town hall within 8 days of the issuance of the permit, for 2 months.
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
Telephone administrative information - Allo Public Service
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
- Town Hall
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Demolition Permit Application
Notice of application for demolition permit posted in town hall
Administrative Appeals
Period of validity of the permit
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