Before you are allowed to change a building that requires approval, you need a building permit.

To do this, you submit a building application to the responsible lower building supervisory authority.

You can also make use of the simplified procedure in your application.

Projects for which planning permission is required, which can probably be granted in a simplified planning permission procedure

Smaller projects such as the construction of detached houses, semi-detached houses and other comparable buildings can be examined in a simplified building permit procedure.

The Thuringian Building Code regulates exactly which projects this applies to.

The simplified building permit procedure is less complex.

A decision on the building application is made within three months of submission of the complete application documents.