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4. Certificats d'Urbanisme

  1. 4.1. What is a Certificat d'Urbanisme?

  2. 4.2. Types of Certificat d'Urbanisme

  3. 4.3. Application for a Certificat d'Urbanisme

4.1. What is a Certificat d'Urbanisme?

A certifcat d’urbanisme is a planning advice certificate issued by the mairie or Direction Départementale de l’Equipement (DDE), which gives general planning information on a particular site.

It may be best described as an 'in principle' planning consent, but it is most definitely not planning permission for a particular project, for which specific approval must be sought.

If you are buying land on which to build, convert a building, undertake major renovation, or redevelopment of a property, you should make purchase completion subject to receipt of a satisfactory planning certificate. Where there is any doubt about the status of the land or what can be built on it, better to make it subject to receipt of actual planning permission.

The certificate will advise you whether there exists a right to build on the land and under what conditions - the planning rules and limitations of use on the site.

Indeed, the first division of land for one or more new dwellings requires a special kind of consent called a déclaration préalable or a permis d'aménager (where more than one dwelling). This approval should have been obtained by the seller prior to placing the land for sale on the market.

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