How to look up a building permit in New Westminster
New Westminster has 5,605 permit records in this dataset, the most recent filed 2026-09-24. Over the last 12 months the city filed 488 permits, most of them PLUMBING PERMITS. 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 New Westminster's own permit data at services3.arcgis.com and find the dataset "Permits - Buildings and Plumbing". This is the same source this page reads.
- Filter by permit type. In New Westminster the common categories are PLUMBING PERMITS, ALTERATION, COM - TEN.
- 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 New Westminster
Questions people ask
- Where are New Westminster building permits published?
- New Westminster publishes its permit records on its own open-data endpoint at services3.arcgis.com, in the dataset "Permits - Buildings and Plumbing". Van Permit Audit reads that feed and holds 5,605 New Westminster records, current to 2026-09-24.
- How many permits does New Westminster issue?
- New Westminster filed 488 permits in the 12 months to 2026-09-24, and 38 in the most recent 30 day window. The most common category was PLUMBING PERMITS, 192 permits over the year.
- How current is New Westminster permit data?
- The latest New Westminster permit filed date in this dataset is 2026-09-24, 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: 5,605 New Westminster permits, part of 3,176,874 records from 32 municipal open-data feeds, refreshed 2026-09-30. Window measured to 2026-09-24, the latest filed date New Westminster has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."