Acts and works subjected to a planning permit

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• Article 98 of the CoBAT

In a general way, it is about:

• Construction;
• Renewing the structure of the building (for example by building a staircase, or by making a door in a carrier wall), by modifying the built volume (for example by adding a porch, or by creating an attic window), or by modifying the outside aspect of the facade on the street (in particular by replacing frames)
• Place one or several fixed installations, even in not long-lasting materials, that are incorporated into the ground, anchored in the ground or in an existing construction,... For example:
  • Antennas, pylons
  • Terraces on floors on the pavement
  • Fences
  • Swimming pool in the garden / ground for sports
• Change the use or the destination (PDF, 0,96MB), total or partial, of the good, even without works. It is for example about the division of a building.
• Modify the relief of the ground, deforest, bring down a tree of more than 4 metres in height and a circumference of more than 40 cms (measured at 1,5 metres of the ground), modify the vegetation in certain zones
• Use a ground for:
  • The deposit of one or several vehicles, materials or waste
  • The vehicle or trailer parking, also for advertising purposes
  • The placement of one or several mobile installations which can be used for the house (caravans, disused vehicles, tents)

The protected goods

Attention: to lead acts and works of any type on the protected good, it is necessary to inquire at the website of the Management of Monuments and Sites or with the urbanistic information. A particular licence is necessary also. It will be a unique permit.

The works of minor importance

In certain cases (PDF, 8,08MB), a permit is not necessary or the procedure is simplified.

These works are exempted from a permit as far as they do not affect a plan of land allocation, a regulation of town planning or an allotment permit and as far as they are not relative to a good that is protected/classified. For example:

• The placement of sanitary, electric internal equipments, heating, insulation or ventilation
• The placement at the facade of domestic technical or ornamental devices (policy number, bells, diverse boxes of a vertical surface lower than 0,1 m², as far as their projection is lower than 12 cms
• The cutting of dead trees
• The placement of fireplaces or domestic aeration, pipes of rainwater,... far as these devices are not visible on the public place
• The placement of a scaffold on the public road

Public inquiry

• Files subjected to public inquiry