Building Permit Application — shared by the community

Who this template is for

Building Permit Application is built for councils, agencies and public bodies who need to run a public request or application to a consistent standard.

• Councils, agencies and public bodies working in government & public sector.
• Teams who need to run a public request or application to a consistent standard without writing code or paying for a custom build.
• Anyone replacing paper forms that are slow to process and hard to audit with one structured record per enquiry.
• Respondents are residents and applicants — the form asks them 29 questions across 3 screens.
• Mobile-heavy audiences, thanks to the one-question-per-screen card layout.

Why this form is useful

It removes the cost of paper forms that are slow to process and hard to audit and turns each submission into a record your team can act on immediately.

• 17 questions are required, so submissions arrive complete instead of needing a follow-up email.
• It collects a verified email address so replies and confirmations land.
• It captures a phone number for urgent follow-up.
• It accepts a document or photo upload as evidence.
• It pins the request to a specific date.
• It captures a full postal address.
• It allows multiple selections without free text.
• It captures a numeric value you can filter and sort on.

How to use this template

From copy to live form is a few minutes of work, and every step is reversible.

1. 1Press “Use this template” — a fresh copy of Building Permit Application lands in your workspace, ready to edit.
2. 2Rename or delete any question, and change what is required. Nothing here is fixed.
3. 3Open Notifications and add the email addresses that should be alerted on each submission; add an auto-reply to the respondent if the form collects an email address.
4. 4Check the upload limits on the file question so respondents can attach what you actually need.
5. 5Publish it, then either share the link directly or paste the embed snippet into your site — the embedded form resizes to fit and loads no marketing or advertising trackers.
6. 6Watch responses land in Submissions, where you can filter, label and export them to CSV or PDF.

Logic and conditions blueprint

Exactly how this form behaves as it is answered — 4 conditional rules ship with it.

• Features conditional validation: if “What is your relationship to the property?” is I am the agent or architect, “Owner name and how we can reach them” becomes mandatory before the form can be sent.
• Features conditional validation: if “Will the work affect the structure of the building?” is Yes, “Upload structural drawings or calculations” becomes mandatory before the form can be sent.
• Features conditional validation: if “Will scaffolding or a skip be on the road?” is Yes, “Which road, and for roughly how long?” becomes mandatory before the form can be sent.
• Features advanced show logic: if “Is the property listed or in a conservation area?” is Yes, the form dynamically exposes “Have you spoken to a conservation officer?”. Otherwise that question never appears.
• All 4 rules are editable in the Logic tab, and the built-in checker warns about rules that contradict each other.