Process description
Service requests
The documents necessary for the design of construction shall be produced and, using the Construction Information System (BIS), submitted electronically a completed form entitled “Explanatory Memorandum for the demolition of the building. Part I 'with the necessary Annexes:
- supporting documents relating to ownership, possession or use rights;
- the authority of the initiator of construction, if the submitter of the design documentation does not have ownership, possession or usage rights;
- a situation plan on an appropriate visual scale (M 1:25 0; M 1:50 0; M 1:10 00) on the ground boundary plan indicating the building to be demolished;
- the opinion of the owner of the engineer network concerned that the construction of the second group has been switched off from external engineering networks;
- photofixation of buildings older than 40 years;
- permits or conciliations, if this is specified by regulatory enactments.
In order to realise the intention of demolition of a building, the construction initiator shall agree with the developer of the building project in the relevant field of construction project regarding the development of the referred to documentation. The construction initiator may himself or herself develop the necessary documents for his or her residential building, the auxiliary building thereof and certify that they conform to the regulatory enactments regulating construction and the spatial plan of the local government, the planning plan or the detailed plan.
The Riga City City Development Department shall review part I of the Explanatory Memorandum for the demolition of the building and the documents appended thereto within 14 days after the registration thereof in the City Development Department of Riga City Council and make a note regarding the acceptance of the intention in Part I of the Explanatory Memorandum, or provide a written substantiated refusal.
After performing a note of the City Development Department of Riga City Council, the construction initiator shall submit the information regarding the performer of the works in an explanatory article for demolition of the building. Information regarding the performer of construction works may be provided at the same time as the submission of the construction plan to the Riga City Council Department for the taking of a decision.Pay step
In accordance with the binding rules 01.12.2022of the Riga City Council No. RD-22-164-sn “On the local government fee for issuing a building permit and the local government fee for accepting the intention of building, making a note in an explanatory article”, the fee to accept the explanatory memorandum shall be paid:
1) for natural persons 1 decision - EUR 50;
2) for legal persons 1 decision - EUR 100.
The Properties:
Riga municipality
Reg. No 90011524360
Latvian branch of luminor Bank AS
Account No. LV82RIKO0020100000002
The following shall be exempt from payment of the fee:
1) persons with Group I and Group II disabilities, low-income persons and repressed persons, if they perform construction projects and construction for their own needs (construction facilities - apartments, single-apartment or double-apartment residential houses, farm buildings, garages for individual use);
2) the recipients of a construction permit, if the construction has been financed in full for the resources of the local government budget or the construction of a social residential house is carried out in accordance with a decision of the local government;
3) electricity supply merchants who are licensed or comply with the regulations regarding regulatable types of public services, if the planned construction (the object of the construction intention) will be owned or used by the energy supply merchant and will be directly utilised for the production or transmission of electricity;
4) State administrative bodies.Receipt of services
Construction planning documents can be received electronically in the Construction Information System (BIS).