France Building Permits (Sitadel): Projects, Builders & Alerts

Every building permit granted in France, from the State's official register — with who is building, what, where, and whether the works have started. Sitadel is the national database of planning permissions, published monthly by the Ministry's statistics office. This Actor turns it into a clean feed of construction projects: new housing programmes, shops, offices, factories, warehouses, land developments and demolitions.

• 🏗️ Projects before the first shovel: permits appear when they are granted. Across eight large departments, company housing projects opened their site a median 8 months after the permit — 14 months for programmes of 10+ dwellings (permits of 2022-2023, among sites that have opened). Status tells you where each one stands: authorized, works started, completed.
• 🏢 The company behind each project: name, SIREN, legal form and activity of the applicant — developers, social landlords, companies, public bodies.
• 📍 Where and how big: address and cadastral parcels of the works, dwellings created, floor area by use, land area.
• 📊 Who is building here (free): in the Isère department, companies and public bodies obtained 407 housing permits creating 3,117 dwellings and 678 permits for non-residential buildings over the last 12 months at the time of writing — and the summary ranks the applicants behind them.
• 🔔 Alerts on new permits and on works starting: schedule it monthly with a monitor name; you get only what is new or has changed.

✨ Why this Actor

🗃️ Official & nationwide	The State's open register (SDES, Licence Ouverte), every commune of France, permits since 2013, refreshed every month.
🧭 Any area	A city, a postal code, an arrondissement ("Lyon 3e") or a whole department by its number ("38").
🎯 Real filters	Permit type, status, date, minimum dwellings, minimum floor area — applied at the source, so you only pay for what you need.
👁️ Follow a company	Give SIREN numbers and get every permit those companies obtained, nationwide — a competitor's pipeline, or a customer's next sites.
🛡️ Private individuals stay private	Only companies and public bodies are returned by default. Projects of private individuals can be added for statistics, but never with a street address, a parcel or a permit number.
🆓 Free summaries	Permits, dwellings and floor area by type, status breakdown and the top 10 applicants, computed on all matching permits.

🎯 Use cases

• Building trades & suppliers: the programmes authorized in your area, with the developer to call — before the tenders go out.
• Developers & land buyers: who obtained what around you; follow competitors by SIREN.
• Commercial real estate & logistics: new offices, retail, warehouses and factories by size and location.
• Market analysts, local press, public bodies: dwellings authorized per commune, social housing share, the pace of construction.

🚀 Examples

Housing programmes of 10+ dwellings authorized in the Isère department:

{
  "locations": ["38"],
  "permitTypes": ["housing"],
  "minDwellings": 10
}

New warehouses and industrial buildings over 1,000 m² around Lyon:

{
  "locations": ["69"],
  "permitTypes": ["nonResidential"],
  "minFloorArea": 1000,
  "monthsBack": 6
}

Follow two developers nationwide, with alerts when a site opens:

{
  "applicantSirens": ["830853628", "418868584"],
  "statuses": ["authorized", "started", "completed"],
  "monitorName": "developers-watch",
  "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…"
}

📦 Output

A permit (real data):

{
  "type": "permit",
  "location": "Grenoble",
  "category": "housing",
  "permitNumber": "03818525U1068",
  "permitType": "building permit",
  "status": "authorized",
  "authorizedAt": "2026-01-12",
  "worksStartedAt": null,
  "applicantType": "company",
  "applicant": {
    "name": "57 BLUM",
    "siren": "988734208",
    "siret": "98873420800016",
    "legalForm": "SCCV (build-to-sell real-estate company)",
    "legalCategoryCode": 6541,
    "activityCode": "41.10D",
    "postalCode": "38170",
    "city": "SEYSSINET-PARISET"
  },
  "address": "57 AVENUE LEON BLUM",
  "parcels": ["EY 8"],
  "postalCode": "38100",
  "city": "Grenoble",
  "inseeCode": "38185",
  "landAreaM2": 1025,
  "projectNature": "new construction",
  "levels": 5,
  "dwellingsCreated": 18,
  "housingType": "apartment building",
  "apartments": 18,
  "socialRentalDwellings": 5,
  "intendedUse": "sale",
  "floorAreaCreatedM2": 1242
}

The free location summary (real data, Isère department, shortened):

{
  "type": "locationSummary",
  "location": "38",
  "since": "2025-10-03",
  "permitsMatching": 1085,
  "byCategory": {
    "housing": { "permits": 407, "dwellings": 3117, "floorAreaM2": 205056 },
    "nonResidential": { "permits": 678, "floorAreaM2": 372699 }
  },
  "byStatus": { "authorized": 989, "started": 96 },
  "topApplicants": [
    { "name": "GILLES TRIGNAT RESIDENCES", "siren": "397947433", "permits": 9, "dwellings": 245, "floorAreaM2": 15500 },
    { "name": "ISERE HABITAT", "siren": "998318711", "permits": 8, "dwellings": 132, "floorAreaM2": 11272 },
    { "name": "VINCI IMMOBILIER RHONE ALPES AUVERGNE", "siren": "830853628", "permits": 3, "dwellings": 103, "floorAreaM2": 7582 }
  ]
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price
Run start	$0.003
Building permit	$0.003
Location summaries	free

100 permits = $0.30. In monitoring mode you only pay for new permits and status changes. Apify subscribers pay less: −10% (Starter), −20% (Scale), −30% (Business). Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

❓ FAQ

What is in the register? Building permits and prior declarations that create at least one dwelling; those that create or extend non-residential buildings; development permits (subdivisions, serviced plots); demolition permits. Not included: refused or pending applications, and works on an existing home that create no new dwelling.

How fresh is it? The State publishes once a month, covering permits recorded up to the end of the previous month. A monthly schedule is the right pace.

Why are only some applicants named? By the State's own rules, the register names an applicant only when it is a legal entity found in the official company register. Private individuals are never named. About one housing permit in five is filed by a company — but those permits carry three dwellings in four (19% of permits, 74% of dwellings over the last 12 months in eight large departments).

What do I get for private individuals? Nothing by default. With includeIndividualProjects, their permits are added at commune level — type of project, dwellings, floor area, dates — without street address, parcels or permit number, so they can feed statistics but not door-to-door prospecting.

How do I get contacts for the companies? Each applicant comes with its SIREN. Pass the SIRENs to French Companies Scraper (SIRENE) to get directors, verified websites, emails and phones.

Paris, Lyon, Marseille? Use the city name for the whole city, or an arrondissement ("Paris 11e", "69003") — the Actor filters on the postal code of the works.

Why can a project appear twice? A mixed project (housing plus shops, for example) is listed in both the housing and the non-residential files, with the figures of each part.

Is this official data? Yes — the Sitadel open register published by the SDES (Ministry in charge of housing), Licence Ouverte.

🔌 API, AI agents and integrations

• API: one call runs the Actor and returns the results, POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/euroscrape~france-building-permits/run-sync-get-dataset-items (see the API tab for Python, JavaScript and cURL).
• AI agents (MCP): add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=euroscrape/france-building-permits to Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client, and the Actor becomes a tool your agent can call.
• No-code automation: start runs and pass the results on with Apify's integrations for n8n, Make and Zapier, or with a webhook when a run ends.
• Exports: every result set downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, and can be sent to Google Sheets.

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