Urbanism

The main tasks of the Direction de l'Urbanisme of urban.brussels are:

• Ensuring the proper application of the regional planning regulations (FR/NL): the cornerstone of urban development with a human face, regulating the major aspects of daily life, including the characteristics of buildings and their approaches, housing habitability standards, building sites and roadworks
• Checking the conformity of planning or land parcelling permission/certificates granted by the communes
• Conducting environmental impact reports with regard to grants of planning or land parcelling permission
• Managing urban planning violations
• Handling appeals
• Informing the public bodies and the general public

Applying for planning permission

If you need planning permission – to turn a shop into an office, a salon into a butcher’s shop or a single family home into student accommodation – you’ll find all the information you need on urbanism rules in the Brussels-Capital Region on the website of Homegrade.