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Background and overview Bilaga 4
the site, i.e. primarily requirements relating to precise
siting and external appearance.
Certain alterations which were previously subject to a
building permit requirement and which relate to the
technical aspects of buildings no longer need a building
permit. Instead they are, however, subject to a building
notice requirement within the framework of the new
supervision and inspection system.
These alterations are
— alterations to buildings which affect the design of
loadbearing components or which substantially affect
the layout of buildings,
— installation of, or substantial alterations to, heating
appliances, flues or arrangements for the ventilation of
buildings,
— installation of, or substantial alterations to, arrangements
for water supply or drainage in buildings or inside
building plots, and
— installation of, or substantial alterations to, lifts in
buildings.
Local authorities are now also given greater opportunities
than before to reduce the building permit requirement in
areas subject to the provisions of a detailed development
plan.
The detailed development plan can lay down that a
building permit is no longer required to carry out, in the
way and during the period specified in detail in the plan,
the measures that result from the general regulations
regarding the building permit requirement for buildings
and civil engineering works. Such a decision shall not
however be made if a building permit is required to safeguard
the interests of neighbours or society.
The supervision and inspection system
It is now the building owner, i.e. the person who, on his
own account, carries out building, demolition or site
alteration works or arranges for these to be carried out,
who is completely responsible to society for ensuring that
a building or civil engineering works complies with the
relevant technical requirements. This is made clear by the
fact that processing of the building permit application no
longer covers the technical properties of the project and
that the building committee is given a purely supervisory
responsibility concerning these properties. In order to
enable the building committee to exercise effective supervision
of the responsibility placed on the building owner,
a new administrative procedure has been introduced which
enables the building committee to monitor the building
project and to take action if something goes wrong.
Regardless of whether or not a building permit is required,
certain building works specified in law shall not be commenced
for at least three weeks from the date of submission
to the building committee of a building notice. This notice
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