Is a building permit needed for green color on roof tiles?

[Claes Sörmland]

Feels stupid to change if I plan to build?

What the Swedish Tax Agency has for a type code for the property has nothing to do with the building permit requirement.

 

[nino]

What type code the Swedish Tax Agency has for the property has nothing to do with the building permit requirement.

You're not allowed to build an Attefall house on 320; at least not as easily as on 220, right?

 

[grovspacklarn]

You can't build an attefallare on 320, right? At least not as easily as on 220?

And if I tick that I have zero income even though I earn x amount of thousands on the tax return, I don't have to pay tax.

 

[Claes Sörmland]

Isn't it more difficult to build an "attefallare" on a 320 than on a 220?

As mentioned, the property's code does not matter. What matters is whether there is a single or two-dwelling house. As soon as you have that, you can build "attefallshus" in its immediate vicinity.

Think, for example, of a property that has a high-rise building with ten apartments, and on the same property, there are six terraced houses. The entire thing is owned by an HSB. The HSB is allowed to build "attefallshus" for each of the terraced houses despite the property's code not being 220.

 

[nino]

And if I check that I have zero income even though I earn x number of thousands on the declaration, then I don't have to pay tax

In my case, I pay more than I should with the correct type code. It's not like I've changed or done anything to get 220; it was a factory from the start, so there should have been the wrong type code from the beginning.

But since there aren't any major differences between 220 and 320, I will make the change at the tax agency so it's correct there too, saving 4000/year on it.

 

[grovspacklarn]

In my case, I'm paying more than I would with the correct property code.
It's not like I've changed anything or done something to get 220; it was a factory from the start, so there should have been the wrong property code already.

But since there aren't major differences between 220 and 320, I will make the change at the tax agency to get it right there as well, and I'll also save 4000/year on it.

I don't really know how many times it needs to be said that it's not about property code.

 

[nino]

How does the building permit officer know what kind of house the building permit is being applied for then?
I should add that I have never done an extension or built new so I have never filled out a building permit application (but you have probably figured that out already)

 

[Claes Sörmland]

How does the building permit officer know what kind of house the building permit is being applied for?
I should add that I've never done an extension or built new, so I've never filled out a building permit application (but you've probably figured that out already)

They process based on the information provided by the builder, e.g., drawings.

 

[useless]

If you wait until December 1st, the building regulations will change, and you'll be able to change the color of your roof without a building permit. The proposition is set to be decided in parliament in October. What might stop this newfound freedom is if your house is part of a conservation-worthy building area, meaning it's considered culturally significant. For example, a homogeneously well-preserved million program area with brown colors is sometimes seen as conservation-worthy by professionals. The municipality can provide information on whether they assess it that way. In that exceptional case, a building permit is required.

But it won't be entirely unrestricted just because the building permit requirement is removed, right? You still have to follow the same cautionary regulations in the BBR regardless.

 

[Claes Sörmland]

But it won't necessarily be a free-for-all just because the building permit requirement disappears. The same rules of care in BBR must be followed regardless.

Yes, you must comply with any regulations on color in the detailed plan and must not create significant inconvenience for neighbors.

Then, there is no direct obstacle to changing the color of a roof if one feels like it, as there is no strict preservation requirement in PBL except concerning valuable buildings and areas, it's not an entirely conservative law.

The requirement for care has had a weak position in PBL and has mostly been raised in connection with building permit applications or notifications when the official has felt it was relevant. For example, I haven't heard of cases where supervision has intervened because someone has renovated away their distinctive functionalist kitchen in the old small house or the typical brown bathroom in the 70s apartment. Even though both cases in theory are covered and perhaps protected by the requirement for care.

This has always been the peculiar thing with Swedish building legislation, when you have fallen into the clutches of an employee at the building committee through a building permit application or notification, the demands for a measure have been much higher than if the measure didn't require permission or notification. Very much double standards and arbitrariness, in other words, which are now reduced with decreased permission and notification requirements.