Hi
A Property near us has been sold after a couple of years,
If the new owner applies for planning permission and its granted will we be advised?
Is it mandatory to place a sign displaying the permit number and work undertaken ?
Is there a web site where I can find out about planning permission
Thanks
Nope, not a personal notification… that does NOT happen in my part of France.
Any Applications are pinned to the Notice Board inside the Mairie and available to the Public. I often go and thumb through them to see what’s afoot.
and, of course, any Permissions or Refusals are also pinned for us to see…
The onus is on the Public to go and check things out for themselves.
…or have a friendly contact in the Mairie who will let you know.
No, you will not be told
Yes, once works start there will be a board up, if the work is substantial
Only a few maries have this information online, best to ask directly.
It may or may not be the law to display a board but not to be relied on. I can think if 3 projects not far from us that are what I would consider substantial, with no board displayed.
Our commune website has a list of planning permissions the latest being 2020 yet I know of a few projects started and finished since then and granted after 2020, obviously the website manager has better things to do!
The only sure fire way to find out is to visit the Mairie but if no notice and work approved/started its simply too late.
You need to be proactive not reactive with finding out information.
It’s actually quite interesting, leafing through the Notices pegged on the Public Board… and of course much later, one can see what has been Approved and what has been Declined (and why…) as all these Notices have to be publicly available.
Anyone can go and look… speak at your Mairie and they’ll show where you can find 'em… 
Or, as in our village of born again concierges, a neighbour will be sure to point out, not only is a works sign required but they will helpfully (?) tell you where to put it. 
My old mairie used to have the folder just inside the front door on a desk so the public could peruse applications and permissions without disturbing the secretary. We always put boards outside sites so the permis number could be displayed for folks to then go and see what was being done and also the client’s name.
No need for me to disturb our Secretaire either … but for a newbie, asking in the first instance is perfectly OK.
Our cork-board is covered with notices on all sorts of subjects… can be quite daunting… until one digs a little deeper
We were a little surprised to discover that when building requests are publicly posted, the public and those affected still have to wait until a permission or denial of the request is posted in order to see exactly what is being planned/proposed. There is then a month in which objections may be made.
Our irascible neighbour after failing to verbally bully us into agreeing to her putting a gateway across our access servitude de passage, has ignored our avocat’s letter and submitted a proposal for une portaille of some sort at the Mairie. Now we wait to see, unless the request is refused, what exactly is being proposed before we need to contact the avocat again.
All this because the neighbour decided a servitude de passage across the front of her home should only be used by our car, not friends, not deliveries, not the infirmière, not a marching band.
That last one I shall invite when the gate has been refused.
How about these guys? 