Urban planning permit

Jurisdiction

Building permit – Urban planning provisions.
Subdivision permits.
Subdivision (roads)
Division of property.
Information for notaries.
Land register information.
Obstruction certificate.
Unsuitability – suitability inquiry
Environment permits.
Urban planning certificates N°s 1 and 2.
Environmental impact assessment.
Placing illuminated signs.
Felling licence.
Demolition permit.
Sewers connection authorisation.
Garden sheds – Aerial – Swimming pool - Fencing.
Structure map.
Municipal urban planning regulations.
Municipal urban planning committee (MUPC).
Municipal development plans – Area plan.
Monument or site listing.
Cartography.

Urban planning permit

Below are the different stages an applicant has to complete before the application is approved or otherwise. Here is the story of what happened to an application for a compliant and comprehensive urban planning application;

Once upon a time there was an urban planning permit

1. At last! After months of being examined, I have finally ended up on the desk of the municipal administration's Urban planning department.
2. After all the information has been checked: client, situation, aim of the application, project sponsor...
3. I have been entered in the urban planning permits register and the urban planning computer program.
4. From a collection of documents, I have now been turned into a file: I have the name and number of this file
5. I am now being handed to the control officer, to check my technical compliance: the project's impact on the public sphere, the conformity of the sewer system... and to assign me an official address.
6. The municipal architect will then check my urban planning compliance: compliance with the provisions in the Municipal Urban Planning Regulations (MUPR ) with those of the subdivision where I am going to establish myself, site location, size of the structure, materials...
7. Final stage, I am submitted to the alderman for urban planning who will argue my case before the Municipal Board of Mayor and Aldermen. This will ensure that everything is correct, that I am ready...
8. And here I am on Thursday, in the middle of a pile of other files, presented to the "Grand Jury": the Municipal Board of Mayor and Aldermen. No decision is taken in the municipality without the Board's approval.
9. I have passed, they said "yes". I will now be awarded a diploma: an extract from the Board's register of deliberations (official document notifying my approval) and a whole host of highly relevant information about the formalities to be completed prior to and after my building project.
10. I am going to return to my client with my stamped "diploma" and the Walloon Region will be notified about the Board's decision.

Statistics

Back in 2006, the Urban planning department dealt with:

45 environment permits.
120 applications in principle.

719 urban planning inquiries for notaries.

23 subdivision permit applications

7 Municipal development plans (MDP) files. A MDP provides an overall view of the development of a district or an open area

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