building permit
Americannoun
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The lawsuit also accuses the ministry of breaching fire safety regulations and not posting its building permit in a place visible to the public, as the law requires.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
While building work can continue during the legal challenge, French legal experts told the BBC the facility's building permit could be revoked if the lawsuit was successful.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
A contractor who offers to do the job without a building permit is a red flag.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
The foundations are for a hotel extension that attracted so much controversy last year that the country's top administrative court ended up temporarily blocking its building permit.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
I also pull the building permit for the Gardens of Glenwood to show that the interior space has the proper drainage, and that in the original plans, they didn't show rocks, but plants.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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