Process description
Service requests
For the purposes of initiating a construction project using the Construction Information System, an explanatory memorandum for the preservation of the building must be submitted electronically, accompanied by:
1. supporting documents relating to ownership, possession or use rights;
2. the authority of the initiator of construction, if the submitter of the design documentation does not have ownership, possession or usage rights;
3. a project for the performance of building conservation works consisting of:
3.1. an interpretative description regarding the performance of preservation and the list of necessary conservation works;
3.2. solutions, or, if necessary, graphical parts for the prevention of loss of structural resilience and further deterioration of building elements;
3.3. solutions for the prevention of hazards to human life and health or the environment;
3.4. an act of cultural and historical inventory, if the building is a cultural monument;
3.5. a project for the organisation of works, if the local government has indicated it in the decision regarding the preservation of the building;
3.6. other documents which describe the building and are necessary for taking a decision.
In order to realise the preservation of a building, the initiator of construction 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 City Development Department of Riga City Council shall review part I of the Explanatory Memorandum to the preservation of the building and the documents attached thereto within 14 days after registration of the document 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 article or give 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 the preservation 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).