Issued building permits (English, CSV)
Explore the interactive map. Issued building permits: English CSV file you can open as a table, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows. From City of Vancouver, updated Oct 2026.
- Format
- CSV
- Access
- Table on demand (prepared when opened) and interactive map
- Fields
- 6
- Publisher-reported update
- 2026-10-26
Building permits are required for new buildings, additions or alterations to existing buildings, and for demolitions or salvage and abatement work. As permit application processing is a collaboration between the customer / applicant and the City, this dataset has been updated with the elapsed time from the date at which an application generated a permit number to when the permit was first issued. Specifically, the fields PermitNumberCreatedDate and PermitElapsedDays (includes weekends and holidays) are available in all views as well as through data exports and API access. In addition to existing fields that allow this data to be grouped (PropertyUse, TypeofWork, SpecificUseCategory) we have created a new group field, PermitCategory, that focuses on higher volume, lower complexity project scopes. This dataset includes information of all building permits issued by the City of Vancouver, starting in 2017. The data is based on permit issuance date and does not show current status of a permit or changes after a permit is originally issued. Data currency The extract for the current year is updated daily but the extract for prior year is static. Data accuracy There may be addresses…
Data overview
- Formats
- CSV
- File languages
- English
- Available actions
- Explore table (prepared automatically) · Explore map · Access original file
Available fields (6/6)
Fields from the recorded map schema.
| Field | Recorded type |
|---|---|
| permitnumbercreateddate | text |
| issuedate | text |
| typeofwork | text |
| address | text |
| permitcategory | text |
| applicantaddress | text |