Housing and urban development

• Who to contact?
• Affordable housing
• Construction and renovation
• Accommodation for a limited period
• Housing for students
• Housing for people with disabilities
• Home loan calculator
• Fire prevention advice
• Regional development plans – land use
• Urban development
• Vacant dwelling
• Moving home - formalities at the commmune
• Grants
• Heritage

Who to contact?

The Brussels-Capital Region has a number of different bodies and agencies with responsibility for housing.
The contact form on the website logement.brussels tells you who to contact with any questions you may have.

• Contact the appropriate body (FR/NL) (online form)

Affordable housing

Some regional bodies, such as citydev.brussels and the Fonds du Logement, provide housing for sale or for rent at affordable prices to people who fulfil certain conditions, especially with regards to income.

Purchase

• Put your name down on the housing list of citydev.brussels (FR/NL) (online form)

Construction and renovation

ecobuild.brussels (a cluster of hub.brussels) brings together companies that are active in the sustainable construction and renovation sector in Brussels.

• Contact ecobuild.brussels (online form)
• Find professionals in the construction sector (search on name, category, project, bugdet and partnership) (online database)
• Submit a construction or renovation project to obtain a professional advice (FR/NL)
  (online form)

Accommodation for a limited period

The website of Brussels Destination allows people wishing to settle in Brussels for a limited period (for one week to six months) to find appropriate solutions and owners to advertise their property.

• Look for or rent accommodation for a limited period (online database)

Student housing

The website of Br(ik (Brussel&ik) brings together the supply of and demand for student accommodation in Brussels.

• Look for or rent student accommodation (online database)

Housing for people with disabilities

The AccessHouse website of the Association Nationale pour le Logement des Handicapés (ANLH) contains a disability housing register and allows landlords to register accessible properties.

• Search for or advertise accessible and adapted housing (FR/NL) (online database)

Home loan calculator

A number of cooperative credit institutions provide a mortgage or home loan calculator on their website to help you make the right choice when buying a house and/or renovating it to improve its energy performance.

• Calculate your monthly mortgage payments on the website of the Brussels Housing Fund (FR/NL) (online module)

Apply for fire prevention advice

• Send a request for prevention advice to the SIAMU through IRISbox
  (online service with electronic identity card)

Regional development plans – land use

Various regional regulations govern the planning possibilities in the Brussels-Capital Region.

BruGIS® is a tool for managing regional development. This cartographic website provides all the urban planning information available in the Brussels Region.

• Find out the usage of a zone (search on layer of information) (online interactive map)

Urban development

Track the status of your building permit application online

The citizen with a building permit application pending approval for renovation work or a new-build project in the Brussels-Capital Region can track the status of the application the quick and convenient way using the Permits Online service. This online service gives citizens access to all public information on building applications.

• Track your building permit application online (FR/NL) (web service)

Request for information

• Send a request for planning information to your commune through IRISbox
  (online service with electronic identity card)

Vacant dwelling

• Submit a complaint about a vacant dwelling to Brussels Housing through IRISbox (online service with electronic identity card)

Moving home - formalities at the commune

In some communes you can use IRISbox to apply for a parking space, submit a change of address and apply for a resident’s parking permit. You will need an eID.

• Complete the formalities at your commune when you move home through IRISbox
  (online service with electronic identity card)

Grants

Renovation grant and façade beautification grant

The Brussels-Capital Region awards grants to encourage you to renovate your property and/or to beautify its façade.

Prepare your grant application:

• Calculate the intervention percentage according to the zone (FR/NL) (online module)

Heritage

The mission of the Direction du Patrimoine culturel (Directorate of cultural Heritage) is to identify, protect and preserve the Brussels heritage.

Heritage inventories

Heritage lists are drawn up on special themes:

Inventory of built heritage

• Consult the list of built heritage (search on keyword, municipality, street, classification, style, architect and period) (FR/NL) (online database)

Inventory of underground archaeological sites

• Consult the atlasses of underground archaeological sites (search on municipality) (FR/NL) (online database)

Inventory of natural heritage

• Consult the list of special trees (search on keyword, type, rareness, girth, historical relevance and impact on landscape) (FR/NL) (online database)

Inventory of organs

• Consult the list of organs (search on keyword, building or organ, municipality, style, organ builder and period) (FR/NL) (online database)

Inventory of wallpapers

• Consult the inventory of wallpapers on the website of the IRPA ('Royal Institute of artistic Heritage') (FR/NL) (online database)

Heritage conservation

You will find on the site of the Direction du Patrimoine culturel information about the procedures relating to heritage (FR/NL) (protection, grants, inventories, ...).

• Fill in some of the forms relating to heritage online through IRISbox
  (online service with electronic identity card)