Building permit (archives)

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These documents state the original situation as well as the successive modifications of a building. They are thus a source of essential information for the history of town planning in Brussels

Files kept at the Archives only concern buildings situated on the territory of the City of Brussels (City of Brussels, Laeken, Haren, Neder-Over-Heembeek). The information on buildings in other municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region can be found at the municipality where the building is situated.

In practice

Access to the register of the files is available for consultation in the reading room of the Archives. It is sorted by street and numbers and by the name of the owner having introduced the application for the building permit.

The consultation of files is exclusively done in the reading room. To order reproductions of plans, it is inevitably necessary to go to the Archives. Anyone who wants to make copies of building plans must have a permission of the owner or an authorization by a notary or court.

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