Building and remodeling

If you want to build or renovate, you often have to report this or need an environmental permit. For example, you may also need to modify your driveway, cut down trees, install solar panels or remove asbestos roofs. Check first whether a permit or notification is required and then make your application. Sometimes you only need to provide information about your plans.

Roadmap

  1. Still to do: Prepare your plans

    Check the rules and see if a permit, notification or information requirement is needed with the permit check. Can't find your way through the many rules? Then go to the consultation hour of the Heerlen environmental counter.

  2. Still to do: Check your idea at the Intake Table

    Submit your idea to the municipality through the Intake Table. This way you will know in advance if your idea is promising. Arrange this online at the Intake Table. After assessment, you will receive advice and the possible next steps. 

  3. Still to do: Apply or report

    Is the advice positive? Report your plan or apply for your permit at the national Omgevingsloket. Send along the necessary documents. Read all about the application.

  4. Still to do: Confirmation of application

    When you make a notification or request, you will receive a message from the email address noreply@jeleefomgeving.nl. With that email, you can log in to jeleefomgeving.nl and easily track your request.

  5. Still to do: The municipality monitors and reviews

    Is your application complete and is everything correct? You will be notified in jeleefomgeving.nl if additional information is needed or if there is an update. If everything is in order, you will receive your permit.

  6. Still to do: Start work

    Sometimes you need to hire a quality assurance contractor for construction supervision. If so, you must file a WKB notification at least 4 weeks before construction starts.
    The day you start construction, you must notify the municipality. 

  7. Still to do: Report finished

    Report it to the municipality when the work is finished.

Multiple environmental permits

When reporting or applying, you may need multiple permits. Check out the rules for:

Additional rules and permits

Sometimes you may need other permits in addition to the notification or environmental permit during the work, such as:

  • Noise Permission
    You may perform work Monday through Saturday between certain times. If you want to build outside these times, you need permission.
  • Using municipal land
    You need permission to place a container, portable toilet or other object on the street, sidewalk or parking space.
  • Sewer connection application
    Are you not yet connected to the sewer system? Then make an application to the municipality.
  • Waste disposal
    Dispose of your construction, demolition or yard waste properly.
  • Asbestos removal
    If you come across asbestos, you must have it removed. 

Also inform your neighbors

The municipality also considers the interests of your neighbors. If you get an environmental permit, they may object to it. So keep people who live nearby in mind. Let them know in time what your plans are. This increases understanding and can help prevent complaints and objections. 

General tips:

  • Let people in the neighborhood know about your plan in advance. People often like this. And you can discuss and resolve potential problems with each other.
  • Also discuss the schedule and consequences of the work. Consider possible inconvenience to your neighbors. Such as noise, traffic, dust, limited parking spaces and depositions.
  • Share contact information with each other such as phone number and e-mail address. This ensures that you can inform each other quickly in case of unexpected events or problems. 
  • Keep in regular contact during the work. Ask if everything is still going well. This prevents annoyance and ensures greater understanding if there is an inconvenience.
  • For large construction plans or long-term and complex work, consider setting up a focus group or holding a walk-in or informational meeting.

Away from the rules?

When you start your plans, you will find information about the laws and regulations in many places. And sometimes that's a lot and difficult. The Heerlen Environmental Counter will guide you.
Note: We do not do substantive reviews. The intake desk does those.

The consultation hour is every Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon and from 4 to 6 p.m.