Written submission

• If necessary, contact the municipality in whose area the building plot is located before submitting your application if you have any questions about the permissibility of your project.
• Involve your neighbors by submitting the site plan and construction drawings for their approval. Any consent must be given in writing. The building supervisory authority can (exceptionally) waive the neighbor participation requirement for applications for a preliminary decision if you request this.
• Then submit the application for a preliminary decision with the required documents to the responsible lower building supervisory authority (district offices, independent cities, large district towns and certain larger municipalities).
• Submit the application in triplicate using the forms provided. If the lower building supervisory authority is also the municipality, two copies are sufficient.
• The application must be made in writing, an oral application is not possible.
• The lower building supervisory authority examines the application and decides on it.
• If the lower building supervisory authority is not itself a municipality, it will involve the municipality in the decision on the municipal consent.
• Before making a decision, the lower building supervisory authority must involve the authorities whose involvement or consultation is required by law for the decision on the application for a preliminary decision or without whose opinion the approvability of the building application cannot be assessed (e.g. the lower immission control authority, the lower water rights authority or the road traffic authority). In the case of applications for a preliminary decision, this depends on the question posed.

Digital submission

Digital submission of applications for preliminary decisions is not yet possible throughout Bavaria. When a location is selected, the link to the online procedure is displayed if it is already available.

• After involving the neighbors, the application can be submitted digitally using the online assistant.
• The predefined building application and building description forms are replaced by the queries in the online assistant.
• The building documents are uploaded to the online assistant in electronic form (files in PDF format).
• The signatures are replaced by authentication using the "BayernID" user account or "My company account".

There are no deadlines to be observed.

The preliminary decision is valid for four years if it is not limited to a shorter period. The period can be extended by up to four years in each case if the client applies for this in writing before the period of validity of the preliminary decision expires.

The processing time depends on the scope and complexity of the application, the number of agencies involved and the current workload of the authority.