Your permit isn't slow.
It's incomplete.
PrebuildIQ reads your documents, tells you exactly what the City needs for your project, and fills out the application with you — so you submit complete the first time.
— Takes about two minutes. Works for additions, basements, decks, laneway and garden suites, and new builds.
- Application to Construct or Demolish Superseded form — rejected at intake Flagged
- Signed by owner or authorized agent Signature on file Cleared
- Plans and specifications Site plan, floor plans, elevations Cleared
- Zoning Applicable Law Certificate Not yet issued Flagged
Applications that aren't complete have no review timeframe. The clock doesn't run while you fix them.
The delay is rarely the City deciding.
It's a package going in short a document, coming back, and starting the review cycle over. Here's where Toronto projects lose the most time.
The form changed in February 2026
Every application now has to use the updated Application for a Permit to Construct or Demolish. Older versions are rejected at intake, before anyone looks at your project.
A requirement nobody mentioned
Arborist report. Conservation authority clearance. Energy efficiency compliance. Heritage elevations. Designer qualification. Which ones apply depends on your property, not your project type.
A provision you didn't know applied
Lot coverage, height, gross floor area, and rear yard depth are the four that most often send a Toronto project to the Committee of Adjustment — measured in months, not weeks.
Three steps to a submission-ready package.
Tell us about the project
Address, project type, scope. Rear addition, second storey, basement suite, laneway or garden suite, deck, interior alteration, new build. About two minutes.
Upload what you already have
Drawings, survey, engineer's letters, quotes, old permits — in whatever shape they're in. PrebuildIQ reads them and maps them against what the City requires at your address.
Get your checklist, then fill the forms
A live list of what's done, what's missing, and what's likely to be flagged. Then the current application form, field by field, explained in plain language.
Everything between "I want to build this" and "submitted."
Your requirement checklist
Generated for your project type at your address — not a generic PDF. Shows what applies and, just as usefully, what doesn't.
Document review
Upload your drawings and reports. We check them against the requirement list and flag what's missing or likely to draw an examiner's comment.
Guided form completion
The current City application form, completed with you. Every field explained. No blank boxes you're guessing at.
Stream guidance
Find out whether your project may qualify for Express Services or heads into a longer stream — before you apply, so your schedule matches reality.
Applicable law flags
Conservation authority, heritage district, tree protection, energy efficiency, designer qualification — surfaced early, while they're still cheap to solve.
Resubmission tracking
Got an examiner's notice? Upload it. We break the comments into a tracked list, because a partial response starts the cycle over.
Join the PrebuildIQ beta.
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Tell us a bit about you and your project. It takes about two minutes.
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We review every application personally. If it's a fit, we'll email you within a few business days to schedule a short kickoff call.
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You get access and start on your project.
Questions? Email us.
Pay for the permit, not the software.
One project? Pay once. Filing every month? Subscribe. Everyone starts free.
Find out where you stand before you spend anything.
- ✓ Project type and likely review stream
- ✓ City permit fee estimate
- ✓ Requirement checklist preview
- ✓ Heritage, conservation, and tree flags
One permit application, start to submitted.
- ✓ Full itemized requirement checklist
- ✓ Document upload and gap review
- ✓ Guided completion of the current form
- ✓ Export your submission package
- ✓ One resubmission cycle included
For designers, drafters, and contractors filing regularly.
- ✓ Up to 5 active projects at a time
- ✓ Unlimited resubmission cycles
- ✓ Saved company and designer details
- ✓ Templates for repeat work types
- ✓ Priority support
Running a team? Shared workspace, status across every live application, roles and client views — from $399/month for three seats. Talk to us.
Upgrading? We credit your full $199 Project Pass toward your first year of Pro within 30 days.
Prices in CAD. City of Toronto permit fees are paid separately, directly to the City.
We're honest about the line.
PrebuildIQ prepares applications. It doesn't replace the professionals the Ontario Building Code requires — and you should be sceptical of anything that claims it can.
- We don't produce stamped or sealed drawings. Structural work needs a professional engineer.
- We're not your architect or qualified designer, and we don't sign Schedule 1 on your behalf.
- We don't guarantee approval. That depends on your design complying with the Building Code and zoning.
- We're not affiliated with the City of Toronto. You submit through the City's own online services.