Public works service in Köln

The public works service / building authority is part of the local town administration. In general, the public works service takes care of the construction management, building permit procedures and construction consultancy. In contrast to the construction office, however, building supervision usually takes care of the sovereign tasks of building law and can usually be found at district level.
The public works service also looks after public construction projects. Here, the municipal construction management takes over the land-use planning, development plans and land use plans are created.

As a citizen, one usually submits building applications to the public works service in order to obtain a building permit, or takes care of homeowners, can seek advice on building a house or demolition, or obtain general information on municipal construction.
Often searched terms at the building authority are e. g. Building clearance, rehabilitation, urban buildings, maintenance, entertainment, property management, public building plan, land use plan, development plan, construction project, planning permission, building supervision, urban land use planning and building application.