Permits & Applications

Food and beverage businesses can apply to add outdoor seating or spaces for their customers. 

Please visit our Active Patio Program page for more information and instructions on how to apply online.
 

For all existing industrial, commercial and multi-dwelling buildings.

To propose alternative solutions that will achieve the minimum level of performance required by the building code. 

For liquor licence approvals. 

For property owners wishing to change the address of their property. Please fill out both the application form and agent authorization form and submit with applicable fee.

For contractors undertaking installation, replacement, repair, decommissioning or temporary water service backflow prevention devices for residential or commercial sites.

For questions regarding the Backflow Prevention Assembly Test Report, please contact [email protected] or 604-294-7542

For additions, alterations and finishing to existing residential buildings such as single-family, duplex, multiplex (buildings with 3 or more primary units), cottage courts, rowhouses, Part 3 Buildings and apartment style buildings (Part 9).

You can now apply for your Residential Building Permits online by logging into My Permits Portal.

For the construction of all new residential buildings such as single-family, duplex, multiplex (buildings with 3 or more primary units), cottage courts, rowhouses, Part 3 Buildings and apartment style buildings (Part 9).

You can now apply for your Residential Building Permits online by logging into My Permits Portal.

Our pilot program for eCheck, a digital building plan review tool, is now available! If you’re building a single-family dwelling without a suite, and with or without a laneway home (rear principal building), you can opt in to our pilot program to finish your design review faster. Find out more.

To request a revision to an issued residential or commercial building permit.

Revisions may be dropped off to the Building Division front counter, 8 am-4 pm, Monday to Friday, or before 7 pm on Thursdays. If you require your revision to be reviewed and processed at the counter, you must contact the Plan Checker directly to determine if possible and set-up an appointment to meet with them.

For residential revisions, please bring the completed application form and a minimum of 2 hard copies of applicable drawings sheets with revisions included (wet stamped and signed if applicable) along with the original site set of building permit drawings.

If you are adding a new principal or secondary suite unit to an existing residential property, you must apply for a new building permit, this specific scope of work cannot be added to an existing building permit as a revision.

For commercial revisions, please bring the completed application form and a minimum of 3 hard copies of applicable drawings sheets with revisions included (wet stamped and signed if applicable). The original site set of building permit drawings may be requested by the Plan Checker during the revision review process.

Outdoor burning is not permitted in Burnaby without a permit. Permission may be granted by the Fire Chief for a one-time special event fire. 

Additional information:

Fees: $110 (GST Exempt)

Send the completed permit application to [email protected] for processing, or mail directly to the Administration Office (4867 Sperling Avenue, Burnaby, BC  V5E 2S9). 

Payment can be made in the form of cheque only; any payment drop-off must be scheduled in advance through the Fire Administration Office.

To apply to operate a cannabis retail store in the City of Burnaby, applicants must first apply for a separate Provincial licence that is regulated and enforced by the BC Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch LCRB) under the Cannabis Control and Licensing Act. 

Learn more about the cannabis retail application process on our Cannabis Licences webpage.

Referral for operating a home-based child care facility. 

Use this application for all lots with 7 or more units, including townhomes, high-rise or apartment buildings and any other structures located on a commercial site. 

*If you are demolishing only a portion of a building or a structure, or demolishing interior partitions, you will need to obtain a building permit (not a demolition permit), to alter the building.

Use this application for lots with 6 or less units, including single family, duplex, multiplex, row houses and/or any residential structures including accessory buildings.

*If you are demolishing only a portion of a building or a structure, or demolishing interior partitions, you will need to obtain a building permit (not a demolition permit), to alter the building.

For approval to have all or part of a ditch outside your property enclosed. 

New! You can now apply for your Ditch Enclosure Permit online by logging into My Permits Portal.

If you need assistance with this new process or with your My Permits Portal account, please reach out to the Engineering Department.