Construction permit is, before a building is constructed or a certain change is put on it, the administrative activity the authorities concerned grants to a construction proposal after examining whether it satisfies the requirements of concerned laws ...
Construction permit is, before a building is constructed or a certain change is put on it, the administrative activity the authorities concerned grants to a construction proposal after examining whether it satisfies the requirements of concerned laws and ordinances.
The biggest difference in the construction permit of Korea and France is that, while the former is based on the construction law, the latter is on the urban planning law. In other words, the Korean construction permit is to examine a construction proposal and decide whether to give permit or not to it following the procedures of the construction law, on the premise that it satisfies the permit requirements prescribed in both the law on territory planning and use and the construction law. In the French case, however, the permit is given following the procedures stipulated in the code of urban planning laws when a proposal satisfies both the construction techniques requirements in the code of construction and residence laws and the urban planning requirements designated in the code of urban planning laws.
Since 2000, France has made big changes in urban planning toward more balanced development and reasonable use of its territory through several revisions of the code of urban planning laws. For example, the Ordonnance on December 8th, 2005 and the Décret on January 5th, 2007 downsized the thirteen permission types based on the code of urban planning laws into three types(construction permit, development permit, demolition permit). It is meaningful in the sense that they were designed to rearrange permission objects and minimize arbitrariness of administrative authorities by specifying or clarifying periods and methods of procedures.
France, to realize "sustainable development," has merged and reorganized related administrative departments and agencies, and newly established or revised a series of laws(the environment Grenelle law) since 2008. For instance, in the urban planning area, various urban planning techniques for sustainable development have been suggested, and, in the construction area, technical and normative requirements for reducing energy use and realizing environment-friendly construction have been prepared and enforced.
It seems to imply something to the development of Korean construction permit system to look into the recent movements in France that construction permit requirements have tended to be stipulated in very specified ways toward environment-friendly direction.