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Township of Minden Hills

7 Milne Street, Box 359
Minden ON K0M 2K0

Phone: 705-286-1260
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The Township of Minden Hills Building Department offers building permit services to residents and businesses within Minden Hills.

We review permit applications, issue permits, and conduct inspections in accordance with the Ontario Building Code, the Building Code Act, the Township Zoning By-law and other applicable law.

Building Permits

 A permit is required for:

  • New residential dwellings
  • Sleeping Cabin/Bunkie (any size)
  • Accessory buildings greater than 15 square metres including the deck, porch or loft
  • Additions to existing buildings or structures (any size)
  • Adding a bedroom
  • New or replacement decks or stairs
  • New or replacement piers under a building
  • Finishing the basement of a house
  • Creating an accessory apartment 
  • Plumbing fixtures added or relocated
  • Replacing or adding new water supply lines or building drains and sewers
  • Removing a load bearing wall, column, lintel or beam
  • Re-insulating walls, ceilings or floors in a residential building
  • Wood stove, wood burning fireplace, or a wood furnace (interior or exterior)
  • Replacement of windows or doors, when the opening size is enlarged
  • Retaining wall that is greater than 1 metre (3' 3") in height, pending location
  • Solar Panels that are mounted to a building and have a face area of 5 square meters (53.8 square feet) or greater
  • Construction of a temporary enclosed tent to be used for human occupancy
  • Crib docks or other permanent docking systems
  • Changing the use of a building (example: a shed to a bunkie, or a church to a home)
  • Septic systems new, altered or replaced
  • Demolition of a structure greater than 10 square metres (108 square feet) in building.

Apply for a Building Permit online with Cloudpermit

The Township of Minden Hills is pleased to offer residents, builders and the business community – an online system to apply for and track your building permits.

The Cloudpermit building permit system allows you to apply for and to see the status of your application anywhere, at any time. You can start an application and finish it later and receive email updates on the status of your permit application. You can even request building inspections.

The Building Department's preferred method for applications is through Cloudpermit. 

Payment for Building Permits

You can pay for your building permit with a debit/credit card on Cloudpermit using Paymentus. Paymentus is a third-party service provider, which enables debit/credit card holders to make permit payments with Visa, Mastercard, and debit with a 2.5% service fee payable to Paymentus.

Two charges will appear on your card statement when you use the online payment option through Cloudpermit:

  • A principal payment amount (building permit fees), showing as a payment to the Township of Minden Hills.
  • A service fee amount, showing as a payment to Paymentus-Service-Fee.

Please note that credit card payments are accepted for online payments only. Credit card payments will not be accepted at the Municipal Office.

How to get started:

To start, create your Cloudpermit account by visiting https://ca.cloudpermit.com/login

Once registered, you can apply for building permits and track their progress online.

To apply for a Building Permit, click the button below.

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Getting Started with Cloudpermit: A step-by-step walk through from login to submitting your first application with the Cloudpermit Video


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 Cloudpermit System
 

This system digitizes the building permit process. With Cloudpermit you can: 

  • Apply for all types of building permits online
  • Pay for a building permit using a credit card - convenience charge applies (coming soon)
  • Check the status of an application (change of application status or additional information requests will automatically be emailed to the applicant)
  • Schedule or cancel inspections
  • Check inspection results
  • Submit and request changes to an existing permit

Permit guides and permit applications

  • Guide to Building Permits
  • Permit Applications

Permit fees

Refer to our User Fees page for building permit fees. Payment of a permit fee is due prior to the release of a building permit.

 Code of Conduct for the Chief Building Official and Inspectors
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By-law enforcement

Bylaw Services is responsible for the enforcement of the following municipal by-laws:

  • Zoning By-laws
  • Bikes and Skateboards on Sidewalks
  • Noise
  • Parking
  • Property Standards
  • Refreshment Vehicles
  • Dogs and Kennels
  • Transient Traders or Peddlers

By-laws are located on the Minden Hills Civic Web.

If you have questions about By-law Enforcement, or have a complaint regarding violations related to these bylaws, please contact our office.

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If you work in construction, the rules for mandatory WSIB coverage have changed. Do you run your own construction business? Are you the purchaser of construction services? Big or small, with workers or without, you still need to know what's changed. Find out what it means for you at wsib.ca.

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