Building permit issuance

• Lower Saxony Building Code (NBauO)
• Lower Saxony Ordinance on Building Templates and the Establishment of Automated Retrieval Procedures for Tasks of the Building Supervisory Authorities (NBauVorlVO)
• Ordinance on Fees and Expenses for Official Acts of the Building Inspectorate (BauGO)

The building application must be accompanied by all the building documents required for assessment and processing. These must be signed by a draftsman who is authorised to submit building documents. The building application must be signed by the client and the draftsman.

Fees are charged in accordance with the Ordinance on Fees and Expenses for Official Acts of the Building Inspectorate (BauGO). These depend on the respective building requirement. Please contact the competent authority.

• Ordinance on Fees and Expenses for Official Acts of the Building Inspectorate (BauGO)

The application documents must be submitted to the municipality, the joint municipality and the city of the construction site, which will issue an opinion on the construction project as part of the application process and forward it to the competent authority.

If construction takes place at a later date, an extension of the building permit must be requested in writing before the deadline. This also applies if the construction work has been interrupted for more than three years.

The officially prescribed forms must be used. The official forms as well as for the individual documents to be submitted as part of a building application are available from the competent authority as well as the municipality, joint municipality or city.

For the demolition or removal of a high-rise building or a part of a building not mentioned in the appendix, a demolition notification is required in accordance with § 60 (3) of the Lower Saxony Building Code (NBauO). For the construction facilities mentioned in § 62 NBauO, a notification of a construction measure without a permit in accordance with § 62 NBauO must be submitted under the conditions specified therein. In individual cases, the competent authority will provide advice.

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

The responsibility lies with the district, the independent city, the large independent city and the municipality with building supervisory powers.