Advance Work Declaration (PNR)

Verified 24 September 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Do you want to carry out small work or modifications on a construction? Before you begin, you must obtain an authorization by filing an Advance Work Declaration (AD). The RFP is required to complete work that is not subject to a building permit. This may involve the creation of surfaces, interior and/or exterior fittings or alternatively changes of destination for your own good. We guide you through the steps of the process.

You should first check with your local council to find out if your project is located in a protected area. The protected sites are the remarkable heritage sites, the historic landmarks, the classified or pending sites, nature reserves, the heart of national parks or a future national park.

Who shall I contact

The content of the RFP file, the number of copies to be provided and the time required to complete the appraisal are different when your project is located in a protected area.

General case

Step-by-step approach

The application for authorization may be made by natural and moral following:

  • Owner(s) of the land or its representative
  • Purchaser of the property
  • Company authorized by the owner(s) to carry out the work
  • No one in division or his representative
  • Trustee and co-owner
  • Beneficiary of expropriation (public service, public establishment, chamber of commerce...).

The way to build your DP file differs depending on whether you are in Paris or another municipality:

General case

You must complete your RFP file by paperless means according to the arrangements made by your municipality or on a paper form. Inquire on the website of the city hall or on site.

Who shall I contact

On the Internet

You can complete your RFP application file on the Internet:

Support for your city planning authorization request

Form

The RFP file that you are about to create includes the form and the documents to be provided.

In the RFP form, a " attachment deposit slip gives a full list of all the documents that the city planning department may ask you to instruct your project.

You must provide the following:

  • Situation plan field for all projects (you can get it on the Geoportal website)
  • Ground planeif you are creating a new construction or changing the volume of an existing construction
  • Cross-sectional plane if you change the profile of the land (for example, building a buried pool)
  • Plan of facades and roofs if you modify them

Additional parts may be required depending on the nature of your project.

There are several pre-declaration forms depending on the type of work for which you are seeking authorization:

Work on your house or construction of an annex (veranda, garden shelter...)

You can complete your RFP application using a form:

Prior declaration for a detached house and/or its annexes - DPMI

Condominium works, change of destination, fit-up

You can complete your RFP application using a form:

Prior notification (construction, works, installations and facilities not subject to a building permit)

Division of land for the purpose of construction

You can complete your RFP application using a form:

Advance notification (subdivisions and other land divisions not subject to planning permits)

In Paris

You must submit your file to the Office Accueil et service à l'user (Basu: titleContent) by dematerialized means only:

Office Accueil et Service à l'User (Basu) de Paris: one-stop-shop

Depending on whether you are in Paris or another municipality, you must file your application:

  • By dematerialized according to the arrangements made by your municipality (inquire on the site of the town hall or on the spot)
  • By letter RAR: titleContent
  • In your own hand.
Who shall I contact
General case

Via the Internet

You can send your PNR application file via the Internet:

Support for your city planning authorization request

When you send your request by hand or by post, the City Hall will issue you a receipt. When you submit your application electronically, the receipt shall consist of the electronic acknowledgement of receipt.

The receipt contains the registration number of your file and the information allowing you to know the date from which the work can start.

He states that, within 1 month of the filing of the file, the City Hall can notify a different time frame to start your work. She also has 1 month to notify you if your file is incomplete.

Filing in town hall or by mail

Your prior statement can be filed or mailed RAR: titleContent to the town hall.

Who shall I contact

In this case, you must deposit 2 complete files in town hall. In some cases, additional copies will be asked of you. These cases include:

  • Project located within the perimeter of a remarkable heritage site, tohistoric landmarks, in aclassified site, registered site or in a nature reserve: 1 additional copy
  • Project located in a national park core: 2 additional copies
  • Project subject to commercial exploitation authorization: 2 additional copies (including 1 in dematerialized form)

You will attach to these complete files 4 copies of the situational plan.

In the case of a construction, you must also provide 4 copies of the ground plane, the plan of the facades and roofs and the sectional plane.

In Paris

You must submit your file to the Office Accueil et service à l'user (Basu: titleContent) by dematerialized means only:

Office Accueil et Service à l'User (Basu) de Paris: one-stop-shop

The city hall delivers you a receipt. It contains the registration number of your file and information allowing you to know the date from which the work can start.

This receipt states that, within 1 month from the filing of the file, the City Hall can notify a different time frame to start your work. She also has 1 month to notify you if your file is incomplete.

Répondez aux questions successives et les réponses s’afficheront automatiquement

Your file is complete

Instruction time is 1 month from the date of filing of the RFP in Town Hall.

Your file is incomplete

City Hall has 1 month to notify you that your file is incomplete. You must complete it within 3 months. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.

The instruction timeout starts when your folder is full.

The decision is addressed to you by letter RAR: titleContent or by READ: titleContent or an equivalent electronic process.

There are several possible cases:

  • Permission or lack of response
  • Authorization with requirements
  • Refusal
  • Stay of proceedings.

Warning  

Within 3 months of the date of the decision, the mayor may withdraw a non-opposition decision if he considers that it was issued unlawfully.

Permission or lack of response

In principle, when your work request is accepted, you do not receive a response within one month. This is a decision unspoken non-opposition to your work (agreement).

On simple request from you, the City Hall must issue you a certificate of non-opposition. You have proof to assert your rights (obtaining a loan, taking out insurance).

Who shall I contact

Authorization with requirements

If the city hall has reservations about your work, it takes a decree with requirements. You must then execute the jobs according to these imposed rules.

Reasons for the decision and time-limits for appeal are specified in the order.

Refusal

If the city hall refuses your project, it takes a decree opposition.

Reasons for the decision and time-limits for appeal are specified indecree.

Stay of proceedings

In certain circumstances, the mayor may defer his decision on your PNR for up to 2 years. The mayor takes a decree stay of proceedings which indicates the duration of the period. Your application is neither accepted nor refused. It will be considered later.

The stay of proceedings may concern any application for authorization concerning works, constructions or installations in the following cases:

  • Land which forms part of the perimeter of a concerted development area (Zac: titleContent)
  • Initiation of the investigation prior to the declaration of public interest (DUP: titleContent) of an operation
  • Planned constructions which may jeopardize or make more expensive the execution of public works or the carrying out of a development operation
  • Planned constructions likely to jeopardize or make more expensive the execution of the future local city planning plan (MORE: titleContent)
  • Project located in an area intended to be in the heart of a national park.

The reasons for the decision and the remedies and time limits for appeal are specified in the order.

Within 2 months of the expiry of the stay of proceedings, you must confirm your request for an RFP. Within 2 months of your request, you will receive the mayor's decision. If you do not receive the Mayor's decision within this period, your RFP is considered granted.

FYI  

Landowners who have been ordered to stay the proceedings may demand that the community (or the public service that has taken the initiative) purchase their land. The community has 1 year to comment.

Display object

You must view city planning permission on the ground.

An excerpt of the RFP is posted in town hall within 8 days of the issuance of the authorization and for 2 months.

Display Delay

Viewing city planning permission on the ground east obligatory. You must display this view on notification of thedecree or as soon as the time limit for the investigation of your case is over (certificate of non-objection).

It must remain in place for the duration of the work.

Display formalism

You must use a rectangular panel with dimensions greater than 80 cm. It must be visible from the outside. The information on your billboard must be legible on the public highway or in spaces open to the public.

The display shows the following information:

  • Beneficiary's name, business name or trade name
  • Date and number of RFP
  • Nature of the project, land area
  • Address of the town hall where the file can be consulted
  • Name of thearchitect author of the architectural project.

It shall also indicate, depending on the nature of the project, the following:

  • Floor area authorized and the height of the building(s), expressed in meters in relation to the natural ground, if the project involves building(s)
  • Maximum number of lots expected if the project is on a subdivision
  • Total number of pitches and, if applicable, the number of pitches reserved for light recreational dwellings if the project involves a campground or a residential recreational park
  • Area of building(s) to be demolished if the project involves demolitions.

The display shall also mention the possibility for third party to exercise a appeal and to notify the RFP holder within 15 days of their appeal. For 2 months from 1er field display day, such third parties may in fact carry out a ex gratia appeal to the mayor who issued the authorization. In the absence of a notice, they will be able to contest the authorization for 6 months after the completion of the work.

You may begin your work as soon as the non-opposition to the prior declaration of work has been established.

They can therefore start on the date of receipt of the certificate of non-opposition to DP or at the end of the 1-month investigation period.

To make an ex gratia appeal in the event of a refusal or stay of proceedings

When the mayor refuses your RFP application or issues a stay order, you can challenge it.

In the 2 months that follow the date of notification from the decision or from the date on which an implied decision of rejection arose, you can make a ex gratia appeal by letter RAR: titleContent to the town hall:

Who shall I contact

If the graceful remedy attempt fails

If your grace attempt fails, you have a new grace period of 2 months to make a appeal to the administrative court, by letter RAR: titleContent. You must clearly articulate the reasons for your entitlement to an RFP.

You must apply to the administrative court on which the municipality where your project is located depends.

Who shall I contact

Duration of validity of the RFP

Your PNR has a period of validity three years old.

It expires if you have not started work within 3 years or if, after that time, you interrupt it for more than 1 year.

Where the RFP relates to a change of destination or a division of land, the decision will lapse if these operations have not taken place within 3 years.

Request for extension of RFP term

The period of validity may be extended 2 times for 1 year if the city planning rules and administrative easements have not changed.

You have to do it demand at least 2 months before the initial period of validity of your city planning authorization (or before the end of the validity period of your 1re request for extension).

This request must be made in 2 copies by letter RAR: titleContent or dropped off in town hall.

Upon receipt of your request, the City Hall has 2 months to answer you.

The extension is granted if you do not receive a reply within this time limit.

Only the valid city planning permissions may be prolonged.

Example :

An authorization valid from June 5, 2024 to June 5, 2027 can be extended for 1 year if you apply before April 5, 2027.

It can be extended to a 2e times if you request it 2 months before the end of the 1re extension granted.

When you have finished your work, you must send to the town hall, or to the Basu: titleContent for Paris, a declaration of completion and conformity of works (DAACT: titleContent) of your work.

Tax and royalty payable

The order informs you of the amount of any contributions you have to pay. They may include the following:

Please note

The connection to the sewer of new or existing constructions generates the payment of the contribution for the financing of the collective sanitation (Pfac: titleContent or Pac).

Know the amounts and pay

You have to go to your property tax center.

Who shall I contact

Protected area

The content of the RFP file, the number of copies to be provided and the time required to complete the appraisal are different when your project is located in a protected area.

Step-by-step approach

The application for authorization may be made by natural and moral following:

  • Owner(s) of the land or its representative
  • Purchaser of the property
  • Company authorized by the owner(s) to carry out the work
  • No one in division or his representative
  • Trustee and co-owner
  • Beneficiary of expropriation (public service, public establishment, chamber of commerce...).

The way to build your DP file differs depending on whether you are in Paris or another municipality:

General case

You must complete your RFP file by paperless means according to the arrangements made by your municipality or on a paper form. Inquire on the website of the city hall or on site.

Who shall I contact

On the Internet

You can complete your RFP application file on the Internet:

Support for your city planning authorization request

Form

The RFP file that you are about to create includes the form and the documents to be provided.

In the RFP form, a " attachment deposit slip gives a full list of all the documents that the city planning department may ask you to instruct your project.

You must provide the following:

  • Situation plan field for all projects (you can get it on the Geoportal website)
  • Ground planeif you are creating a new construction or changing the volume of an existing construction
  • Cross-sectional plane if you change the profile of the land (for example, building a buried pool)
  • Plan of facades and roofs if you modify them

Additional parts may be required depending on the nature of your project.

There are several pre-declaration forms depending on the type of work for which you are seeking authorization:

Work on your house or construction of an annex (veranda, garden shelter...)

You can complete your RFP application using a form:

Prior declaration for a detached house and/or its annexes - DPMI

Condominium works, change of destination, fit-up

You can complete your RFP application using a form:

Prior notification (construction, works, installations and facilities not subject to a building permit)

Division of land for the purpose of construction

You can complete your RFP application using a form:

Advance notification (subdivisions and other land divisions not subject to planning permits)

In Paris

You must submit your file to the Office Accueil et service à l'user (Basu: titleContent) by dematerialized means only:

Office Accueil et Service à l'User (Basu) de Paris: one-stop-shop

Depending on whether you are in Paris or another municipality, you must file your application:

  • By dematerialized according to the arrangements made by your municipality (inquire on the site of the town hall or on the spot)
  • By letter RAR: titleContent
  • In your own hand.
Who shall I contact
General case

Via the Internet

You can send your PNR application file via the Internet:

Support for your city planning authorization request

When you send your request by hand or by post, the City Hall will issue you a receipt. When you submit your application electronically, the receipt shall consist of the electronic acknowledgement of receipt.

The receipt contains the registration number of your file and the information allowing you to know the date from which the work can start.

He states that, within 1 month of the filing of the file, the City Hall can notify a different time frame to start your work. She also has 1 month to notify you if your file is incomplete.

Filing in town hall or by mail

Your prior statement can be filed or mailed RAR: titleContent to the town hall.

Who shall I contact

In this case, you must deposit 2 complete files in town hall. In some cases, additional copies you will be asked to:

  • Project located within the perimeter of a remarkable heritage site, tohistoric landmarks, in aclassified site, registered site or nature reserve: 1 additional copy
  • Project located in a national park core: 2 additional copies
  • Project subject to commercial authorization: 2 additional copies (1 of which is in dematerialized form).

You will attach to these complete files 4 copies of the situational plan.

In the case of a construction, you must also provide 4 copies of the ground plane, the plan of the facades and roofs and the sectional plane.

In Paris

You must submit your file to the Office Accueil et service à l'user (Basu: titleContent) by dematerialized means only:

Office Accueil et Service à l'User (Basu) de Paris: one-stop-shop

The city hall delivers you a receipt. It contains the registration number of your file and information allowing you to know the date from which the work can start.

This receipt states that, within 1 month from the filing of the file, the City Hall can notify a different time frame to start your work. She also has 1 month to notify you if your file is incomplete.

Répondez aux questions successives et les réponses s’afficheront automatiquement

Your file is complete

Within one month of submitting your RFP, the city planning department will notify by letter RAR: titleContent one investigation period of 2 months in general.

If you have agreed in your prior declaration to receive the instructor's correspondence to an email address, the notification may be sent to you by email.

Your file is incomplete

City Hall has 1 month to notify you that your file is incomplete. You must complete it within 3 months. If you do not provide the missing documents, your application will be considered rejected.

The instruction timeout starts when your folder is full.

The decision is addressed to you by letter RAR: titleContent or by READ: titleContent or an equivalent electronic process.

There are several possible cases:

  • Permission or lack of response
  • Authorization with requirements
  • Refusal
  • Stay of proceedings.

Warning  

Within 3 months of the date of the decision, the mayor may withdraw a non-opposition decision if he considers that it was issued unlawfully.

Permission or lack of response

In principle, when your work request is accepted, you do not receive a response within the 2-month period. This is a decision unspoken non-opposition to your work (agreement).

On simple request from you, the City Hall must issue you a certificate of non-opposition. You have proof to assert your rights (obtaining a loan, taking out insurance).

Who shall I contact

Authorization with requirements

If the city hall has reservations about your work, it takes a decree with requirements. You must then execute the jobs according to these imposed rules.

Reasons for the decision and time-limits for appeal are specified in the order.

Refusal

If the city hall refuses your project, it takes a decree opposition.

Reasons for the decision and time-limits for appeal are specified in the order.

Stay of proceedings

In certain circumstances, the mayor may defer his decision on your PNR for up to 2 years. The mayor takes a decree stay of proceedings which indicates the duration of the period. Your application is neither accepted nor refused. It will be considered later.

The stay of proceedings may concern any application for authorization concerning works, constructions or installations in the following cases:

  • Land which forms part of the perimeter of a concerted development area (Zac: titleContent)
  • Initiation of the investigation prior to the declaration of public interest (DUP: titleContent) of an operation
  • Planned constructions which may jeopardize or make more expensive the execution of public works or the carrying out of a development operation
  • Planned constructions likely to jeopardize or make more expensive the execution of the future local city planning plan (MORE: titleContent)
  • Project located in an area intended to be in the heart of a national park.

The reasons for the decision and the remedies and time limits for appeal are specified in the order.

Within 2 months of the expiry of the stay of proceedings, you must confirm your request for an RFP. Within 2 months of your request, you will receive the mayor's decision. If you do not receive the Mayor's decision within this period, your RFP is considered granted.

FYI  

Landowners who have been ordered to stay the proceedings may demand that the community (or the public service that has taken the initiative) purchase their land. The community has 1 year to comment.

Display object

You must view city planning permission on the ground.

An excerpt of the RFP is posted in town hall within 8 days of the issuance of the authorization and for 2 months.

Display Delay

Viewing city planning permission on the ground east obligatory. You must display this view on notification of thedecree or as soon as the time limit for the investigation of your case is over (certificate of non-objection).

It must remain in place for the duration of the work.

Display formalism

You must use a rectangular panel with dimensions greater than 80 cm. It must be visible from the outside. The information on your billboard must be legible on the public highway or in spaces open to the public.

The display shows the following information:

  • Beneficiary's name, business name or trade name
  • Date and number of RFP
  • Nature of the project, land area
  • Address of the town hall where the file can be consulted
  • Name of thearchitect author of the architectural project.

It shall also indicate, depending on the nature of the project, the following:

  • Floor area authorized and the height of the building(s), expressed in meters in relation to the natural ground, if the project involves building(s)
  • Maximum number of lots expected if the project is on a subdivision
  • Total number of pitches and, if applicable, the number of pitches reserved for light recreational dwellings if the project involves a campground or a residential recreational park
  • Area of building(s) to be demolished if the project involves demolitions.

The display shall also mention the possibility for third party to exercise a appeal and to notify the RFP holder within 15 days of their appeal. For 2 months from 1er field display day, such third parties may in fact carry out a ex gratia appeal to the mayor who issued the authorization. In the absence of a notice, they will be able to contest the authorization for 6 months after the completion of the work.

You may begin your work as soon as the non-opposition to the prior declaration of work has been established. They can therefore start on the date of receipt of the certificate of non-opposition to DP or at the end of the 2-month investigation period.

When the mayor refuses your project or issues a stay order, you can challenge it.

In the 2 months that follow the date of notification of the decision, you can make a ex gratia appeal   by letter RAR: titleContent by the town hall.

Who shall I contact

If the city hall doesn't answer you, it means your gracious appeal is denied.

If your grace attempt fails, you have a new grace period of 2 months to appeal to the administrative tribunal. You must clearly set out the reasons that justify your right to obtain the requested city planning authorization.

You must enter, by letter RAR: titleContent, the administrative court within whose jurisdiction your municipality is located.

Who shall I contact

To make an ex gratia appeal in the event of a refusal or stay of proceedings

When the mayor refuses your RFP application or issues a stay order, you can challenge it.

In the 2 months that follow the date of notification from the decision or from the date on which an implied decision of rejection arose, you can make a ex gratia appeal by letter RAR: titleContent to the town hall:

Who shall I contact

If the graceful remedy attempt fails

If your grace attempt fails, you have a new grace period of 2 months to make a appeal to the administrative court, by letter RAR: titleContent. You must clearly articulate the reasons for your entitlement to an RFP.

You must apply to the administrative court on which the municipality where your project is located depends.

Who shall I contact

Duration of validity of the RFP

Your PNR has a period of validity three years old.

It expires if you have not started work within 3 years or if, after that time, you interrupt it for more than 1 year.

Where the RFP relates to a change of destination or a division of land, the decision will lapse if these operations have not taken place within 3 years.

Request for extension of RFP term

The period of validity may be extended 2 times for 1 year if the city planning rules and administrative easements have not changed.

You have to do it demand at least 2 months before the initial period of validity of your city planning authorization (or before the end of the validity period of your 1re request for extension).

This request must be made in 2 copies by letter RAR: titleContent or dropped off in town hall.

Upon receipt of your request, the City Hall has 2 months to answer you.

The extension is granted if you do not receive a reply within this time limit.

Only the valid city planning permissions may be prolonged.

Example :

An authorization valid from June 5, 2024 to June 5, 2027 can be extended for 1 year if you apply before April 5, 2027.

It can be extended to a 2e times if you request it 2 months before the end of the 1re extension granted.

When you have finished your work, you must send to the town hall, or to the Basu: titleContent for Paris, a declaration of completion and conformity of works (DAACT: titleContent) of your work.

Tax and royalty payable

The order informs you of the amount of any contributions you have to pay. They may include the following:

Please note

The connection to the sewer of new or existing constructions generates the payment of the contribution for the financing of the collective sanitation (Pfac: titleContent or Pac).

Know the amounts and pay

You have to go to your property tax center.

Who shall I contact

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