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Commercial permit resources
Due to a software update, Permits Online will experience a service disruption on Sunday, June 22. We apologize for any inconvenience.
En raison d’une mise à jour de logiciel, il y aura une perturbation des services offerts par Permis en ligne le dimanche 22 juin. Nous nous excusons pour tout désagrément.
Want to know what construction projects are happening in your neighbourhood?
Use our free permit search tool.
Vous voulez savoir quels projets de construction ont lieu dans votre quartier?
Utilisez notre outil gratuit de recherche de permis.
Review the development and building permit process to help navigate application requirements.
Development permits
Building permits
Note: To get application forms for permits under the 2011 Manitoba Building Code, email ppd‑bpx@winnipeg.ca.
- Construct new and/or additions - Part 3 buildings (Building Design Summary)
- Construct new and/or additions - Part 9 buildings
- Interior and/or exterior alterations and change of use - Part 3/9 buildings (Commercial Alteration Design Summary)
- Optional Professional Certificate Program (OPCP)
- OPCP certificate for architectural, structural and mechanical
- OPCP certificate for electrical
- OPCP property owner(s) statement
- Demolition/removal building permit application form
- Tanks/fuel dispensing stations - installations
- Above ground tank installation building permit application form
- Above ground tank installation checklist
- Above ground installation of storage tank inside building checklist
- Under ground tank installation building permit application form
- Work completion certificate
- Fuel dispensing station with canopy building permit application form
- Tank removals
- Above ground/under ground tank removal building permit application form
- Certificate of tank destruction
- Other documents
- Architectural design summary
- Structural design summary
- Mechanical design summary
- Mechanical design summary - shell only
- Electrical design summary
- Manitoba energy code for buildings declaration
- Owner statement
- Required professional designer's certificate
- Declaration form for building permit application
- Declaration form for development permit exemption (Accessory Structures)
- Declaration form for development permit exemption (Accessory Structures-Downtown)
- Declaration form for development permit exemption (Interior Alterations)
- Declaration form for development permit exemption (Pools or Hot Tubs)
- Declaration form for development permit exemption (Pools or Hot Tubs - Downtown)
- Declaration form for development permit exemption (Solar Photovoltaic)
- Declaration form for development permit exemption (Solar Photovoltaic - Downtown)
- Electromagnetic locks checklist
- Electrical patient care areas declaration
- Manitoba early learning and child care design summary
- Photoluminescent exit signs checklist
- Electrical request for code deviation
- Richardson Report
Combined development/building permits
- Signs
- Signs - development and/or building permit application form
- Signs - development and building permit sample drawings
- Letter of authorization - digital signs
- Free-standing signs - structural requirements
- Emergency residential shelters - development and/or building permit application form
- Special events and temporary use - development and/or building permit application form
- Other documents
Trade permits
Other resources
- Wording for professional certification letters:
- Final occupancy
- Interim occupancy
- No occupancy
- Required wording for the final Manitoba Energy Code for Buildings (MECB) certificate of compliance
- Encroachment application
- Seasonal & permanent patios (registration program)
- Barrier-free ramps - code requirements for barrier-free ramps
- Assembly occupant loads - code requirements for spaces regularly used for a gathering of people
- Housing conversion - guidelines for the conversion of a house to commercial use
Note: Confirm addressing requirements for any new construction by emailing PropertyAddressing@winnipeg.ca