:confused: Hi there. I'm sorry to appear totally and utterly dumb, but can someone answer me a question. How many planning permissions do you need when you want to renovate a house? We are going over to Italy soon, to meet our new geometra. It has been mentioned we have to pay the muncipality for the permissions already ready (he pluralised this), and does anyone know roughly the costs. :)
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 05/13/2006 - 05:05
In my experience the ultimate "permesso di costruire" issued by the Comune is the definitive permission for building, and will not be issued until all of the various bits of legislation with which your building must comply (some of these no doubt matters for the Regione, or other bodies) have been agreed.
The Comune issues a bill (sometimes there is an element of a tax involved), and this bill is often divided up into three or more sections, to make it clear for which bit of the permission you are paying out that sum. Often the amounts for different aspects of the permission have to go into different accounts at the Comune. These charges wil be based on a percentage of the building costs, plus some fixed charges.
In addition, you may have to pay some modest sums to authorities like the local water/drainage organisation, or to the health authorities for approving a well - and probably to some other bodies which I have never encountered!
If the Comune bills are ready for you to pay, then your geometra should be able to give you an exact figure - this will be the major expense payable to "officials". Your geometra may also want you to pay, at this stage, for any specialist reports which have been prepared to satisfy the requirements of any of the permission givers. He may also want to be paid something on his own account for work done to date. You will have to enquire from the geometra.
You say he is your "new" geometra: do make sure you have settled up with your "old" geometra if this has been your situation - you don't want to end up paying twice for the same work.
In my experience the ultimate "permesso di costruire" issued by the Comune is the definitive permission for building, and will not be issued until all of the various bits of legislation with which your building must comply (some of these no doubt matters for the Regione, or other bodies) have been agreed.
The Comune issues a bill (sometimes there is an element of a tax involved), and this bill is often divided up into three or more sections, to make it clear for which bit of the permission you are paying out that sum. Often the amounts for different aspects of the permission have to go into different accounts at the Comune. These charges wil be based on a percentage of the building costs, plus some fixed charges.
In addition, you may have to pay some modest sums to authorities like the local water/drainage organisation, or to the health authorities for approving a well - and probably to some other bodies which I have never encountered!
If the Comune bills are ready for you to pay, then your geometra should be able to give you an exact figure - this will be the major expense payable to "officials". Your geometra may also want you to pay, at this stage, for any specialist reports which have been prepared to satisfy the requirements of any of the permission givers. He may also want to be paid something on his own account for work done to date. You will have to enquire from the geometra.
You say he is your "new" geometra: do make sure you have settled up with your "old" geometra if this has been your situation - you don't want to end up paying twice for the same work.