Regulations and guidelines
This page and its subpages contain regulations and guidelines relating to construction. You can also find further guidance on applying for planning permission, as well as specific guidelines and regulations for each type of permit, on the ‘Planning Permissions’ pages under the relevant permits.
A new Building Act came into force at the start of 2025, replacing the provisions on construction in the current Land Use and Building Act. In other respects, the Land Use and Building Act will be renamed the Regional Use Act, the reform of which is also currently being prepared. Construction is also gove ed by the Act on the Information System for the Built Environment, which came into force in 2024.
The new Building Act will apply to planning applications submitted from the start of 2025. Planning applications submitted by 31 December 2024 will be processed in accordance with the old Act.
With the Building Act coming into force at the start of 2025, there will henceforth be only one type of permit in use: the building permit. The new Act therefore combines the previous types of permits (building permit, planning permission and notification of works) into a single permit.
Act on the Information System for the Built Environment
In addition to the Building Act, the Land Use and Building Decree, and other provisions and regulations conce ing land use and construction, the provisions of these building regulations must be complied with in the town of Keuruu, unless otherwise stipulated in a legally binding master plan, local plan, the Finnish Building Code or the Building Decree.
The Building Regulations set out provisions and guidelines based on local conditions, which gove land use and construction in order to promote planned development in the town of Keuruu and to take account of culturaland natural values, and to create and preserve a good, healthy and pleasant living environment. (Building Act, Section 17(4))
Revision of the Building Regulations
The City of Keuruu has begun the process of revising its building regulations. The aim of the revision is to bring the building regulations up to date in line with the Building Act, which came into force on 1 January 2025. The current building regulations came into force on 1 July 2017. The aim is to have the new building regulations in force during 2025.
Initial phase
The process of reforming the building regulations begins with the initiation of the process and the publication of the participation and assessment plan (OAS).
On 4 March 2024, the City Executive Board made the participation and assessment plan for the reform of the building regulations available for public inspection from 11 March to 25 March 2024. During this period, stakeholders had the opportunity to provide feedback on the plan.
The content of the participation and assessment plan can be viewed via the link below.
Preparatory phase
At its meeting on 26 February 2025, the Keuruu Building Committee placed the draft Keuruu Building Regulations on public display for a period of 30 days. The draft building regulations were on public display from 3 March to 2 April 2025. During this period, interested parties had the opportunity to provide feedback on the draft.
Proposal stage
At its meeting on 6 October 2025, Keuruu Town Council placed the draft building regulations for the town of Keuruu on public display for a period of 30 days. The draft was on public display from 10 October to 26 November 2025. Comments on the draft were sought from the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, the Regional Council, and the municipalities whose areas would be affected by the building regulations in terms of land use or construction. During the public display period, local residents also had the right to submit their views (comments) on the draft building regulations in the same way as during the draft stage.
Approval stage
Following the consultation phase for the draft building regulations, the approval phase begins. The decision to approve the building regulations was taken by the City Council at its meeting on 9 February 2026. A separate notice will be issued to announce when the building regulations come into force.
A well-prepared application speeds up the permit process in many ways, so it is worth taking the time to complete it carefully. Remember to include all the required information in the application and attach the necessary supporting documents before submitting it for processing. Supporting documents added at a later stage will delay the processing of your application.
The required attachments depend on the type of permit and the project. In the online permit application, mandatory attachments are specifically marked with the text ‘Mandatory’. There is no exhaustive list of mandatory attachments. This is because you can apply for very different types of permits using the same application.
Permits are applied for online via the Lupapiste.fi service.
The following documents are usually required when applying for a permit:
- Certificate of ownership
- Site plan, scale 1:500 or 1:200
- Drawings (floor plan, elevations, cross-section and chimney)
- Consultation with all neighbouring countries
- Energy Performance Certificate
- Wastewater management plan and wastewater assessment (outside the municipal sewerage network)
Please note! Attachments must be in PDF format or as a data model.
The application must be submitted to Lupapiste either by the applicant (all owners) or by a person authorised by them, in which case a power of atto ey must be attached. Where the estate is the applicant, the application must be signed by all beneficiaries or a person authorised by them. A certificate of the estate must be attached.
The project designers and site supervisors must also be listed on the application.
Applications for demolition permits must be submitted online. The following documents are required:
- a site plan or map extract clearly showing the building to be demolished
- if necessary, photographs of the building to be demolished
- a statement of ownership or right of possession regarding the property from which the building is to be demolished
- a report on the organisation of the demolition work and the reuse of usable building components
- a report on the quantity, nature, sorting and treatment of construction waste, as well as its disposal site. In the same context, a separate assessment shall be carried out regarding construction or demolition waste that poses a risk to health or the environment, and its treatment.
- If site conditions so require, the handling of contaminated soil must also be addressed.
- a report on any easements affecting the building (e.g. an extract from the land register). In some cases, easements may even prevent a demolition permit from being granted until they have been removed.
If a building due for demolition is considered to have architectural or historical value, the building control authority may require the applicant to submit a report on the historical and architectural value of the building and its interior as an annex to the demolition application.
Report on demolition materials and construction waste
Anyone undertaking a construction project must, when applying for a demolition permit or submitting a demolition notification, include a report on demolition materials and construction waste with their permit application. The report must be prepared and updated in the Demolition Material and Construction Waste Reporting System (Rapu) maintained by the Finnish Environment Institute.
The assessment is carried out in two stages. When applying for a building or demolition permit, or when submitting a demolition notification, an estimate is made of the materials to be released. Once the project is complete, the assessment is updated during the final inspection of the permit by supplementing the earlier estimate on the basis of the waste transfer documents.
When applying for a licence, the report must state
- demolition waste
- materials containing hazardous substances, as well as
- soil and stone materials to be removed from the construction site.
It is also possible to declare reusable building products in the report at a later date. The report does not need to be submitted when applying for a permit if the volume of demolition materials is small or if no soil or stone materials are removed from the site. The indicative threshold for a small volume of demolition materials is 100 square metres of floor area for a total demolition project and 10 tonnes of demolition materials for a renovation project.
The demolition and construction waste report must be updated in the Rapu system once the demolition project has been completed, so that it includes details of the quantities of construction and demolition waste removed from the site, the delivery destinations and the treatment carried out. Waste data is primarily updated in the report based on information from the SIIRTO register. The obligation to collect construction and demolition waste separately is laid down in the Waste Act and the regulations issued pursuant to it.
The final inspection may be carried out once the party undertaking the demolition project has notified the building control authority that the demolition work has been completed in accordance with the demolition permit and the relevant building regulations and provisions, including updating the report on demolition materials and construction waste and submitting the information to the Rapu database maintained by SYKE.
Entry into force of licences
All planning permission decisions are published as public notices on the city’s website. The building inspector must be notified when work is due to commence. Construction work must not begin until the planning permission decision has become final. A planning permission decision becomes legally binding once the appeal period has expired and no appeal has been lodged against the decision.
For permits issued by the building inspector, the period for requesting a review is 30 + 7 days from the date of publication.
Validity period of licences
A building permit is valid for five years. However, construction work must commence within three years of the permit decision becoming final. An extension of up to two years may be applied for to commence construction work for special reasons.
Once construction work has begun, an extension of up to three years at a time may be requested to allow for the completion of the work.
You must always apply for an extension before the permit expires.
Measures for the supervision of construction works
The building permit decision specifies which supervisory measures will be carried out during the construction work.
The most common supervisory measures are as follows:
- Marking out the building site and setting out the elevation. This work must be carried out before excavation work begins. The site will be marked out by the surveying supervisor, Arto Hautakangas (tel. 0400 605 052).
- Kick-off meeting. Where necessary, the building control authority may stipulate in the planning permission that a kick-off meeting for the construction work must be held. The party undertaking the construction project must ensure that the kick-off meeting is held before construction work begins.
- Occupancy inspection. The building must be approved by a building inspector before it can be occupied. An occupancy inspection must be carried out before moving into a residential building; the change of address can be registered once the occupancy inspection has been approved.
- Final inspection. The inspection is carried out once the building is fully completed.
The person undertaking the building project or the site manager must arrange for the inspections specified in the permit to be carried out by the building control authority. The person undertaking the building project or their representative, as well as the site manager, must be present at the inspection.
The builder must contact the Keuruu Water Authority office on 020 773 8730 if the building is to be connected to the municipal water and sewerage network. When carrying out extensions or additional construction within the municipal water and sewerage network area, it is also advisable to take into account any additional connection fees.
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