MUNICIPALITY OF HERAKLION

With this system, the Civil Engineers will be able to submit the studies electronically and will manage from their office the entire file of the Building Permit. The Town Planning will check online all the data as well as the location of the property on the map and will grant its approval or will notify electronically its observations to the responsible engineer for the necessary corrections.

The inhabitants of the territory of the Municipality.

All year round

The Electronic Building Permitting System which will benefit the citizens in many ways since all the relevant procedures are simplified and the bureaucracy is drastically reduced. This is just the second Municipality of the country, after the Municipality of Athens, which uses this Modernizing Tool to Upgrade the Urban Planning Services offered to the citizens.

Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Technical Chamber of Greece

The territory of the Municipality

The results of the system implementation have not been exported yet.

- Complete electronic documentation of the details of the file of a building permit.
- Ability to complete the process without visiting engineers and owners in the Building Services, without the burden of the duty of serving the public, and therefore the secondment from their main work of the staff of the Building Services.
- Full documentation of any time delay in the issuance of a permit, at all stages.
- Abolition of bureaucracy in the promotion of building inspectors and in the documentation of audits.
- Reduction of costs for the creation of the Electronic Identity of the new Buildings.
- For the first time, low-cost tools can be used, with the possibility of covering large areas, for the effective fight against arbitrary construction by both the Building Services and the central services of YPEKA.