How to look up a building permit in Burnaby
Burnaby has 631 permit records in this dataset, the most recent filed 2026-09-25. Over the last 12 months the city filed 631 permits, most of them Commercial. Here is how to check one address, and what this dataset already shows.
Step by step
- Start with the civic address exactly as the city writes it, street number, street name, unit. Municipal feeds match on the address string, so "123 Main St" and "123 Main Street" can return different rows.
- Open Burnaby's own permit data at burnaby.ca and find the dataset "Daily Building Permit reports". This is the same source this page reads.
- Filter by permit type. In Burnaby the common categories are Commercial, Residential, Demolition.
- Check the status and the issue date, not just the filing. A filed permit is not an issued permit, and an issued permit is not a finalized one. A permit still open on the record is the one that stalls a sale.
- If nothing comes back, the work may predate the city's published range, or it may have been done without a permit. Both look identical in an open-data search, which is why a written report matters at a closing.
What this dataset shows for Burnaby
631
Records held
Burnaby, BC
631
Filed, last 12 months
2025-09-26 to 2026-09-25
2026-09-25
Latest filed date
The newest record the city has published
2026-09-30
Data refreshed
Last warehouse rebuild
Questions people ask
- Where are Burnaby building permits published?
- Burnaby publishes its permit records on its own open-data endpoint at burnaby.ca, in the dataset "Daily Building Permit reports". Van Permit Audit reads that feed and holds 631 Burnaby records, current to 2026-09-25.
- How many permits does Burnaby issue?
- Burnaby filed 631 permits in the 12 months to 2026-09-25, and 111 in the most recent 30 day window. The most common category was Commercial, 250 permits over the year.
- How current is Burnaby permit data?
- The latest Burnaby permit filed date in this dataset is 2026-09-25, and the dataset was refreshed on 2026-09-30. Municipal feeds publish on their own cycle, so a permit filed in the last few days may not appear in either the city's feed or here yet.
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Data: 631 Burnaby permits, part of 3,176,874 records from 32 municipal open-data feeds, refreshed 2026-09-30. Window measured to 2026-09-25, the latest filed date Burnaby has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."