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If you are thinking about renovating your home here are some Guide Lines:
Building Permits: A Guide for Home Owners
If you are thinking about renovating your home here are some Guide Lines:
Building Permits: A Guide for Home Owners
As a homeowner, you may find that you have outgrown your present home. Renovation is todays answer to moving, and may include anything from adding a room, fixing up the basement or building a garage, to remodeling the interior of a house.
Why Permits are Needed?
Building permits are necessary to ensure that zoning requirements, fire and structural safety standards and other building standards are met, primarily for safety reasons. It is the homeowners responsibility to ensure that a building permit is obtained when required. You may authorize your contractor or designer to apply for the permit, but the owner should ensure that they have the permit prior to any work starting.
How To Obtain A Permit
Building permits are issued by the Building Division of the Planning and Development Department. You can either apply in person for your building permit at our office, located on the 7th floor of City Hall, 300 Dufferin Avenue, in London, ON, or use our Building Permit System to apply online for residential additions and alterations permits for single detached homes.
What projects require a building permit?
Under the Ontario Building Code Act, a building permit is required for the construction of an addition or alteration of any structure which results in a building area of over 10m² (108 sq. ft.).
The following is a list of typical projects that require a permit:
Why Permits are Needed?
Building permits are necessary to ensure that zoning requirements, fire and structural safety standards and other building standards are met, primarily for safety reasons. It is the homeowners responsibility to ensure that a building permit is obtained when required. You may authorize your contractor or designer to apply for the permit, but the owner should ensure that they have the permit prior to any work starting.
How To Obtain A Permit
Building permits are issued by the Building Division of the Planning and Development Department. You can either apply in person for your building permit at our office, located on the 7th floor of City Hall, 300 Dufferin Avenue, in London, ON, or use our Building Permit System to apply online for residential additions and alterations permits for single detached homes.
What projects require a building permit?
Under the Ontario Building Code Act, a building permit is required for the construction of an addition or alteration of any structure which results in a building area of over 10m² (108 sq. ft.).
The following is a list of typical projects that require a permit:
- decks greater than 600 mm (24 inches) above ground or serving the principal entrance for dwelling units
- porches
- sunrooms
- solariums
- carports
- attached or detached garages, sheds
- dormers or finishing of attic space
- one or two stores additions
- finishing a basement
- furnace and ductwork replacements
- plumbing and/or drains (except replacing fixtures)
- new or structural alterations to windows or doors interior structural alterations
- adding or removing most walls, i.e., creating different room sizes and/or uses
- basement or main floor walkout alterations
- replacement of brick veneer
- replacement of masonry chimney below roofline
- installation of irrigation systems
- installation, repair of storm, sanitary and water service
- installation of cleanouts
- conversion from septic to sanitary sewer
- insulating of exterior walls when exterior or interior cladding is removed
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