Do you need a city planning permit to settle a garden shed?
Verified 23 March 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
To build a garden shelter, a city planning permit may be required depending on its surface area.
The rules vary according to the territory concerned.
The protected areas are the outstanding heritage sites, the approaches to historic monuments, classified or pending sites, nature reserves, outstanding spaces and coastal environments to be preserved.
General case
Surfaces of garden shed | Authorization required |
|---|---|
Floor area and ground right of way less than or equal to 5 m² | No Permissions |
Floor area or footprint greater than 5 m² and up to 20 m² | |
Floor area or footprint exceeding 20 m² |
You can use a calculation method to help you calculate the floor area of your project.
You live in a protected area
Surfaces of garden shed | Authorization required |
|---|---|
Floor area and ground right of way less than or equal to 5 m² | |
Floor area or footprint greater than 5 m² and up to 20 m² | |
Floor area or footprint exceeding 20 m² |
You can use a calculation method to help you calculate the floor area of your project.
Even if your project is not subject to city planning authorization, you must comply with the MORE: titleContent or the city planning document in its place. You can consult it in town hall.
Please note
garden shelters of more than 5 m² are subject to the development tax. Shelters of less than 20 m² may be subject, in whole or in part, to an exemption decided by the municipal council.
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
- Town Hall
- City planning code: article R421-1General provisions
- City planning code: article R*421-2Provisions applicable to safeguarded sectors or classified sites
- City planning code: article R421-9Provisions applicable outside protected areas or classified sites
- City planning code: article R421-11Provisions applicable to safeguarded sectors or classified sites
- Circular of 3 February 2012 on compliance with the procedures for calculating the floor area of buildings (PDF - 1.4 MB)
- Method of calculating the floor area
Simulator
- WorksService-Public.fr
- Building permitsService-Public.fr
- Advance Work Declaration (PNR)Service-Public.fr
