Applying for exemption authorisation for a change ban to secure urban land-use planning for building projects without a procedure

Building projects that do not require a building permit are building projects that do not require a building permit. You are allowed to build as long as there is no change ban.

However, you can obtain an exemption from the change ban for your building project, which is not subject to a procedure, to safeguard the urban land-use planning if there are no overriding public interests to the contrary. The building permit authority will decide together with the municipality whether to grant your exception.

Examples of public interests:

• Monument protection
• Nature conservation
• Environmental protection
• Townscape and landscape

The following can be affected by a change ban:

• Construction, modification and change of use of buildings,
• Large-scale backfilling and excavation,
• Excavations, deposits including storage sites,
• Removal of structures
• significant or substantially value-enhancing changes to land and buildings, insofar as these are not subject to authorisation, approval or notification.

The change ban does not affect the following areas

• Projects that were authorised under building law before the change ban came into force.
• Projects of which the municipality is aware and the execution of which could have begun before the change ban came into force.
• Maintenance work and the continuation of a previously exercised use.

For construction projects

• in formally defined redevelopment areas or
• in the urban development area

different regulations apply than for building projects that are affected by a change ban to safeguard urban land-use planning. In this case, the building project must be authorised by the municipality.