building permit

American  

noun

1. an official certificate of permission issued by local authorities to a builder to construct, enlarge, or alter a building.

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Example Sentences

The crowd included a practicing cardiologist from Belgium who had built an app to help patients navigate care, and a California lawyer who made a tool for automating building permit approvals using Claude Code.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 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

Once an application has been cleared by county planners, it’s been another 60 days on average for a building permit to be issued, according to the analysis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

Peter hopes to donate the statue to a fan club, but due to its size a building permit is required.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

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