Department Activity
The activity of the Building Office is regulated by the Building Act No. 183/2006 Coll. effective as of 1.1.2007 and relevant implementing decrees.
Area Management Section
The area management section issues zoning and planning decisions on the location of a building or facility, on the change to the utilisation of land, change of a building and change of the effect of a building for the use of land, section or re-allotment of land and on protective belts. This also involves simplified area management, land approval and land planning information and obligation of the Building Office to assess the building in relationship to the effect on the environment.
Building Office Section
This section deals with: permission and notice of buildings, landscaping, equipment and maintenance work, alterations of buildings before their completion, use of buildings – building approvals, early use of buildings, trial operations, changes in the use of buildings, demolition of buildings, landscaping and facility modification, building supervision and special powers of the Building Office, such as inspections of buildings, essential safety work, essential modifications, building maintenance, vacating buildings, etc.
Section of the Expropriation Office, Offences and State Supervision
Directs proceedings under Act No. 184/2006 Coll. on the removal or restriction of ownership right to land or a building. Expropriation proceedings are directed by the expropriation office which is the municipal office with extended authority under Act No. 314/2002 Coll. on determining municipalities with the authorised municipal office and determining municipalities with extended authority under Act No. 387/2004 Coll. by this provision the expropriation proceedings were transferred to our office for further municipalities and for a further 5 building offices such as Lišov, Ledenice, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Zliv and Rudolfov.
The further activities of this section is to incorporate the provisions on state supervision into all matters of the building office, supervision of observance of the Building Act, its implementing regulations, decisions and measures issued under them for the execution of the powers of the state administration body and supervision of the activity of authorised inspectors. The supervisory body is also furnished under the new legislation with the necessary competencies for enforcing remedies of ascertained inconsistencies which graduate to the decision on suspending the execution of illegal activity. This concerns a significant and, in broad concept in the Building Act, the new authorisation which aims to improve the order and increase security and discipline in construction.
The other activity of this section is also to discuss offences.
The Building Office of the City Authority of České Budějovice, as a municipality with transferred authority, administers a total of 54 municipal offices which total 104 municipalities and own statutory city of České Budějovice, on whose land is found the City Conservation Area – České Budějovice; Village Conservation Area – Holašovice, Malé Chrášťany, Mazelov, Plástovice, Záboří; Village Conservation Area – Rožnov, Bošilec, Břehov, Dobčice, Dynín, Lipanovice, Opatovice, Vitín; Nature Conservation Area – Římovsko; Protected Nature Region – Blanský les and Třeboňsko.
Who does the Building Office cooperate with?
The Building Office and other bodies, which direct proceedings and issue decisions under the Building Act as well as other state administration bodies which direct proceedings in construction matters, issue decisions or opinions under special regulations, are obliged to cooperate. This concerns so-called “affected bodies” (AB).
The busiest affected state administration bodies are:
Fire Brigade of the South Bohemian Region, Nádražní 52b , České Budějovice
Regional Hygiene (Public Health) Station of the South Bohemian Region, Na Sadech 25, České Budějovice
Regional Authority of the South Bohemian Region – U Zimního stadionu 1952/2, České Budějovice
Regional Work Inspectorate for the South Bohemian Region and Vysočina based in České Budějovice, Vodní 21, České Budějovice
VUSS Pardubice, Immovable Infrastructure Administration Section of České Budějovice, Dvořákova 12, České Budějovice
City Authority of České Budějovice
- transport and road management department (Kněžská 19)
- environmental protection department
- monument conservation department (Kněžská 19)
Railway Office, Building Section, Plzeň Region, P.O. Box 258, Plzeň
Police of the Czech Republic – district headquarters – Transport Inspectorate, Pražská 5, České Budějovice
What should not be forgotten?
Legal entities, natural persons and administration bodies, when proposing, allocating, planning, permitting, implementing, approving, using and demolishing buildings, are obliged to proceed under the general technical construction requirements, general technical requirements ensuring the use of buildings by persons with restricted mobility and orientation (Decree No. 369/2001 Coll.) and technical requirements defined by implementing regulations (“General Technical Requirements”).
Superior body of the building office:
The superior body of the Building Office at the City Authority of České Budějovice is the Regional Authority – South Bohemian Region, Regional Development Department, Land Planning, Building Code and Investments, Building Code Section, U Zimního stadionu 1952/2, České Budějovice.