How Long Does it Take for the City Council to Grant a Building Permit?

When is it necessary to apply for a building permit?

1. The subdivision, segregation, or any other act on the division of properties, both urban and rural.
2. Large earth movements, and clearing and leveling works on any type of land.
3. The works of extension, reform, modification or rehabilitation of buildings, constructions, or existing buildings, whatever their scope, extension, purpose and destination.
4. The building works, including the construction and implementation of facilities of all types as new construction.
5. The construction works, and the uses, that are to be carried out on a provisional basis.
6. The demolition works of constructions, and buildings, except in cases that have been declared as imminent physical ruin. In this exception, the prior processing of the building permit will not be required.
7. In general, the first use and occupation of any building or physical installation in general.
8. The objective change, total or partial, of the use of the constructions erected by the work.
9. The extraction of aggregates, and also the exploitation of quarries. Without excluding the specific documentation that the legal regulations require to be able to legally carry out these activities.
10. The accumulation of spills. And also the deposit of materials foreign to the original and own characteristics of the natural environment that contribute to the deterioration or degradation of this space.
11. The enclosure of properties, walls and fences of the building.
12. The opening of new roads, including the modification of the existing road and/or its paving to favor transit.
13. The installation of prefabricated houses in a specific location, whether provisionally or permanently.
14. The installation of greenhouses, or similar infrastructures.
15. The felling of tree masses (set of trees), shrub vegetation (set of shrubs) or isolated trees that, due to their circumstances, may drastically affect the landscape or are protected by the corresponding legal regulations.
16. The placement of signs or fences, of propaganda or advertising, visible from the public road.
17. Also the installations that may affect the subsoil where they are located.
18. The installation of electrical, telephone or other similar lines. It also includes the installation of antennas or telecommunications devices of any type.
19. The construction of dams, ponds, defense works and correction of public water channels, public or private roads, and in general, any type of works or uses that affect the orography and configuration of the territory.
20. The integral rehabilitation of buildings.
21. The substantial alteration of the structure or exterior facade of a building.
22. Actions on assets cataloged as assets of cultural interest, or buildings protected by the laws of protection of heritage.
23. Works in constructions that, although they are outside the municipal ordinance on the current Urban Plan, require an architectural project due to their relevance and complexity.