CALGARY — The value of building permits in the Calgary region was $372.1 million in November, according to Statistics Canada.
The federal agency reported Thursday that permits in the Calgary census metropolitan area were down 5.9 per cent from the previous month but up 10.8 per cent from a year ago.
In Alberta, building permits hit $1.2 billion in November, up 1.5 per cent on a monthly basis and an increase of 26.3 per cent from November 2011.
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Building permit numbers have been released by the city for 2012, with a number of ups and downs — and even the dips are good indicators for the future.
According to Fort Saskatchewan Planning and Development, a total of 702 development permits were issued in 2012 — matching the 702 that were handed out in 2007, a number which has not been reached since.
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For one of the fastest growing communities in Canada, 2012 marked another “strong” year for development, says Airdrie’s top planner.
Airdrie’s population soared 47.1 per cent between 2006 and 2011, resulting in the eighth highest growth rate in the country.
While total 2012 census numbers are not finalized, there was a bump in housing permits.
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Things are looking up for the local economy, if building permits are any indication.
City of St. Albert officials say that, as of the end of November, the value of residential and commercial building permit fees crossed the $1-million mark, clocking in at $1,006,675. That’s the fourth-highest total for the same period in the past 10 years and the first time it has topped $1 million since 2009.
“When you factor in some of the boom years like 2005, 2006, we were over that amount, but only slightly,” said Curtis Cundy, general manager of planning and engineering for the City.
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Canada Olympic Park’s ski hill expansion, once slated to open last year, will now likely be finished sometime in 2013 after WinSport failed to submit a city development permit for the project.
WinSport had advertised the three new runs and 30 extra vertical metres would open by Dec. 15. But its construction got halted last month, when Calgary’s planning department issued a stop-work order after a complaint led planners to discover work occurring without a permit.
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A flurry of permits for new single family homes in Sylvan Lake pushed the year’s construction totals higher than last year by 50 per cent.
Permit values totalled $51.5 million for the first 11 months in 2012 compared to $34.3 million in the corresponding period of 2011, according to figures released by the town Monday. Sylvan’s totals haven’t been this high since 2008 when they hit just under $63 million at the end of the year.
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CALGARY — The value of building permits in the Calgary region rose to $394.6 million in October, according to Statistics Canada.
The federal agency reported Thursday that permits were up 5.1 per cent from the previous month in the Calgary census metropolitan area.
They also rose by 11.4 per cent year-over-year.
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Building permit applications show new residential construction is strengthening, especially in the single-family home area, says Kevin Griffiths, chief building official with the City of Calgary.
“Overall, we’re seeing a strengthening of the single-family activity,” says Griffiths, discussing the October report on building permit applications in Calgary.
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OTTAWA— The federal government moved Thursday to distance itself from its own increasingly controversial decision to grant permits to 201 Chinese nationals to work in a northeast B.C. coal project.
Human Resources Minister Diane Finley said the government isn’t satisfied with the process that led to the granting of the permits, and said it has put the Temporary Foreign Workers program under review.
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A building permit to expand Red Deer’s wastewater treatment plant accounted for nearly 85 per cent of the value of the construction work approved by the city last month.
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