Bedford Permit Guide
Bedford keeps its Building Department in a separate building from its Town Office, on Constitution Drive rather than North Amherst Road — a distinction that matters, because directories and mapping services routinely send permit applicants to the wrong address.
Concord Permit Guide
Concord is the state capital, which puts a line through its map that no other New Hampshire city has: the State House and the state office buildings are permitted by the State Fire Marshal, and everything else on Green Street is the city's Building Safety Division.
Derry Permit Guide
Derry takes permit applications online only, and since twenty twenty-two it has required every proof and plan to be in hand before an application is submitted at all — a rule the town adopted specifically so its inspectors could work on complete files.
Dover Permit Guide
Dover runs the most complete online permitting operation in the band — around sixty application types in one portal, available around the clock — and its Inspection Services division moved out of City Hall to a new office on Mast Road in June twenty twenty-five, which catches out anyone working from an older address.
Grafton County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Grafton County, New Hampshire - requirements, filing paths, fees, contractor credentials, trade permits, and inspections.
Hillsborough County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire - requirements, filing paths, fees, contractor credentials, trade permits, and inspections.
Hudson Permit Guide
Hudson is bounded by a river on one side and a state line on the other, which makes it a commuter and commercial town whose contractors routinely work under three different frameworks — and only one of them applies here.
Keene Permit Guide
Keene combines roles that most cities separate: its Building and Health Official is also the city's fire marshal, and its Building Division Manager is also the floodplain administrator and assistant emergency management director — three questions, one person, in a city where the floodplain is the defining constraint.
Londonderry Permit Guide
Londonderry issues its oil burner, fire alarm and sprinkler permits at the Fire Department and only during two windows a week — Monday afternoons and Thursday mornings — and it will not accept any permit submission by email.
Manchester Permit Guide
Manchester is the largest city in New Hampshire and the largest permitting operation in the state, run as a Building Division inside Planning and Community Development, with applications available online and a mailed alternative for anyone who asks.
Merrimack County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Merrimack County, New Hampshire - requirements, filing paths, fees, contractor credentials, trade permits, and inspections.
Merrimack Permit Guide
Merrimack is a town, a river and a county in New Hampshire, and only one of the three is this jurisdiction: the Town of Merrimack sits in Hillsborough County, not in the county that shares its name, and its Building Department works from the Daniel Webster Highway rather than Town Hall.
Nashua Permit Guide
Nashua does not run a permit portal: its Building Safety Department publishes fillable PDF forms, and the completed form is emailed to the department's permits address or brought to a permit desk that closes half an hour before the office does.
Portsmouth Permit Guide
Portsmouth is the smallest city in the band and the most demanding to permit in: the Historic District Commission meets once a month and adds at least that to a review, and the city will not issue a new permit on a property that still has an uninspected one open.
Rochester Permit Guide
Rochester put building, zoning and licensing into a single department rather than splitting them, so the office that answers a setback question is the same one that issues the electrical permit and the business licence.
Rockingham County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Rockingham County, New Hampshire - requirements, filing paths, fees, contractor credentials, trade permits, and inspections.
Salem Permit Guide
Salem sits directly on the state line at the busiest crossing in New Hampshire, which makes it a retail and commercial market far larger than its thirty-two thousand residents suggest — and puts a completely different code framework a few hundred yards from most of its commercial frontage.
Strafford County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Strafford County, New Hampshire - requirements, filing paths, fees, contractor credentials, trade permits, and inspections.