Permits and Certificates

To ensure compliance with its planning by-laws, the Municipality requires a permit or certificate of authorization for most projects undertaken by a citizen.

It’s also a way for the Municipality to monitor land-use planning.

Obtaining a permit or certificate of authorization allows you to:

• Locate appropriate uses and structures.
• Perform safe work that complies with municipal standards.
• Avoid errors that may jeopardize the safety or legality of a project, which could result in avoidable costs and inconvenience.

A permit or certificate of authorization allows you to do:

• Construction
• Renovation
• Tree cutting
• Pool installation
• Fence, wall or hedge installation.
• Excavation or backfilling work
• Etc.

Permit forms

Before submitting your form, please ensure that you include all of the following documents:

• A signed power of attorney from the owner allowing the applicant to apply for a permit on their behalf (if applicable);
• Proof that the land on which the construction is to be built is owned by the applicant, if the applicant acquired the land less than one (1) year ago;
• Since your land is part of a lot, you must hire a land surveyor to carry out a cadastral operation to identify your lot on the official cadastral map;
• Plans and precise details concerning water withdrawal (use, flow rate, location, elevation, type of construction and materials used) (provincial law, mandatory);
• The contract or bid from the well driller hired to do the drilling;
• A development report including a soil study and a scaled location plan provided by a professional order accredited for septic systems (provincial law, mandatory);
• The contract or bid from the well driller hired to do the drilling;
• A development report including a soil study and a scaled location plan provided by a professional order accredited for septic systems. (provincial law, mandatory);
• The contract or bid from the well driller hired for the drilling;
• A site plan including a soil study and a scaled location plan provided by a professional association accredited for septic systems. (provincial law, mandatory)
• Scaled construction plans and estimates for the work to be performed, including:
• The plan for each level;
• The four elevations with the EXACT level of the finished floor (north-south-east-west);
• Construction details;
• A typical cross-section of the walls showing the materials used;
• For each room, indicate its intended use.
• A site plan drawn to SCALE:
  • of the proposed and/or existing building(s);
  • the planned septic system and those in the neighborhood;
  • the planned well or water supply connection, as well as those of the neighbors;
  • wetlands, riparian strips, and flood zones;
• A certificate of location must be submitted to the municipality when the foundations are poured.

All documents can be sent by email to the following address:[email protected]