Applying for a planning permit
Are you planning to build or demolish something in your garden or next to your home? For example, do you intend to build a garage or cut down a tree? If so, you will often need a planning permit (omgevingsvergunning). You can apply for this permit via the Omgevingsloket. In some cases you only need to notify the authorities, and no permit is required.
You need a planning permit for various activities in your garden or in and around your house, such as:
- construction;
- demolition;
- building a driveway;
- modifying, renovating or restoring a listed building;
- cutting down trees.
Go to the Omgevingsloket (online environment portal) to check whether you require a planning permit (in Dutch) or if just a notification is sufficient.
You can apply for a planning permit via the Omgevingsloket (in Dutch).
This is how it works for you
Here is some information from your municipality.
Applying for a planning permit
Do you want to know whether you need an omgevingsvergunning (planning permit)? Or if you have to notify the authorities? You can do a vergunningcheck (permit check) at the Omgevingsloket (planning permit online service desk, in Dutch).
This is how you apply for planning permission:
- Go to the Omgevingsloket. Log in with DigiD (for yourself) of with eHerkenning (for a company).
- Do the vergunningcheck.
- See whether you need a permit.
- You can apply for the permit immediately.
The cost depends on which all-in-one permit for physical aspects you apply for. Note that you must pay even if your application is rejected.
The municipality will need 8 weeks (standard procedure) to assess your application. It will sometimes take 26 weeks (extended procedure). This will be the case, for example, if you want something different from what is stated in the bestemmingsplan (zoning plan). The municipality can extend the period once for a period of 6 weeks.
Is your application declined? And do you disagree? Then you can object. Contact your municipality to do so.
Has your application been approved? Then others can also object to this decision.
The municipality announces permit applications and decisions via: www.officielebekendmakingen.nl (in Dutch).
Good to know
You may start work only once you have received the permit. If you start earlier, you may be required to undo the work at your own expense.
Questions about this topic?
Contact the Municipality of Horst aan de Maas
Visiting address
Wilhelminaplein 6
5961ES Horst
| Monday | 8:00 - 20:00 |
| Tuesday | 8:00 - 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 8:00 - 17:00 |
| Thursday | 8:00 - 17:00 |
| Friday | 8:00 - 17:00 |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |