The full procedure is carried out for special buildings and demolitions and, at the request of the applicant, for a building project that would have to be examined under the exemption from approval or as a simplified building permit procedure.

The planning permission procedure also checks compliance with ancillary building law, including in particular the protection of historical monuments. A building permit therefore also includes any necessary approval of ancillary building law. Even if the building project only contravenes specialist law, the building application cannot be approved.

• Approval under monument protection law
• Soil protection for material brought in from outside from 600 cubic meters (terrain modeling)
• Nursing home law for care facilities
• Immission control for harmful environmental effects
• Food hygiene for food processing
• Aircraft noise protection for military protection zones at Erbenheim airport
• Road law for the construction and modification of buildings within the construction ban zones of federal highways
• Veterinary regulations for animal husbandry
• Mining in the case of structures in construction restriction areas
• Nature conservation for interventions in nature and landscape
• Railroad law for the construction of buildings near railroad lines
• Air traffic for the erection of structures in construction protection areas of airports
• Water law for the construction and extension of buildings in flood zones

In addition to the building permit, further permits may also be required for your building project under ancillary building law. You are responsible for applying for these from the relevant authorities.
These are, for example

Tree protection
Permission to fell protected trees or to carry out extensive pruning work on protected trees. (opens in a new tab)

To submit an application for full procedures, the author of the design must be authorized to submit building proposals.

Limited (minor) authorization to submitbuilding proposals
Graduates with a state-recognized Bachelor's degree (six or eight semesters) in the fields of structural engineering and interior architecture as well as civil engineering, master craftsmen and women in the main construction trade and construction technicians have limited - also known as minor - authorization to submit building proposals in Hesse. They are authorized to submit building applications for

• Residential buildings with no more than two apartments and a maximum total living space of 200 square meters,
• single-storey commercial buildings with a maximum gross floor area of 200 square meters and a wall height of three meters,
• smaller agricultural buildings in building classes one to three up to 200 square meters of gross floor area on the first floor,
• Garages up to 200 square meters of floor space.

Special building design authorization for interior designers
Persons who are entitled to use the professional title "interior architect" or "interior designer" on the basis of the Hessian Architects and Town Planners Act are authorized to submit building proposals for the structural alterations to buildings associated with this professional task in addition to the small building submission authorization. Questions regarding the interpretation of this definition of professional tasks or the existence of this building design authorization must be clarified before a specific building permit procedure is carried out.

Unrestricted (major) authorization tosubmit building documents
Persons who may use the professional title "architect" or are entered in the list of engineers authorized to submit building documents are generally authorized to submit building documents for all construction projects.

Please submit these documents to the building inspectorate in accordance with the Building Submission Decree in the order listed and - as indicated - in triplicate (sorted by copies).

Applications for which documents no. 1, 4, 5, 7 are incomplete or for which these documents are missing in whole or in part will be rejected as incomplete, as they can neither be formally processed nor checked under building planning law. If the signature of the client or the author of the design is missing, we will also reject the application immediately.

The list serves as a guide as to which building documents you generally have to submit when applying for a building permit in accordance with Section 66 HBO (including special buildings). You will find out whether these building documents must also be submitted in your specific individual case during the preliminary consultation with our building consultants.

Due to the complexity and the extensive examination required, there are expressly no deadlines for processing building applications in accordance with Section 66. The employees of the building inspectorate nevertheless process them quickly and purposefully in order to bring the procedures to a decision.

All building documents required for the assessment of the project and the processing of the building application must be attached to the building application. A building application is incomplete, for example, if a required written application for a deviation or for an exception or exemption is missing.
If missing building documents are not submitted by the client within the deadline despite a subsequent request by the building inspectorate and the application therefore remains incomplete, the application is deemed to have been withdrawn and will be returned to the client.

The procedure is then completed and a new building application must be submitted. Missing signatures on application forms regularly lead directly to the building application being rejected.

Notification of the start of construction and completion
The building inspectorate must be notified in writing of the start of construction at least one week in advance (notification of start of construction BAB 17). This notification must also be accompanied by the required structural engineering certificates (see below) and the names of those involved in the construction work. The certificates to be obtained or submitted from authorized certifiers or experts depend on the relevant building class of the respective construction project.

Completion of the building shell and final completion of the building must be notified to the building inspectorate at least two weeks in advance, stating the date of completion.

Use before completion
If you wish to use your building before completion, you must notify the building inspectorate at least one week in advance. Early use is only permitted if the project can be sensibly divided into construction phases and these can be safely used individually. In addition, the parking spaces required for the use must have been created. This must be submitted together with the notification of early commissioning, as well as the necessary structural engineering evidence. Otherwise, the building inspectorate will prohibit use within one week due to concerns about public safety and order.

Please use the forms from the building permit decree for the respective notifications.