Building Permit Summary

Detailed building permit summaries are prepared each month. They provide monthly and current year cumulative information on the number of permits issued, the number of dwellings being built, and the value of the permits. The summaries also provide comparable information from the previous year. For prior years reports select "View Full Details".

Surrey issues building permits to ensure that construction complies with the BC Building Code as well as the City's own policies and regulations. Information gathered from building permit applications provide insights into demographic changes and development activity. It is also used to calibrate the City's population estimates. Information is available on current building permit activity as well as building permit activity for previous years.

Previous Years Building Permit Summaries:

2026 Building Permit Summaries

2025 Building Permit Summaries

2024 Building Permit Summaries

2023 Building Permit Summaries

2022 Building Permit Summaries

2021 Building Permit Summaries

2020 Building Permit Summaries

2019 Building Permit Summaries

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• buildings
• commercial
• construction
• development
• development statistics
• development type
• industrial
• institutional
• residential

Additional Info

• Maturity Level 1 (62%)
• Maturity Level 2 (62%)
• Maturity Level 3 (44%)
• Maturity Level 4 (10%)
• Maturity Level 5 (0%)
• Maturity Level 6 (0%)

Field	Value
Last Updated	September 19, 2026, 06:38 (UTC)
Created	March 24, 2026, 21:09 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Building Permit Summary
Description A description of the dataset.	Detailed building permit summaries are prepared each month. They provide monthly and current year cumulative information on the number of permits issued, the number of dwellings being built, and the value of the permits. The summaries also provide comparable information from the previous year. For prior years reports select "View Full Details". Surrey issues building permits to ensure that construction complies with the BC Building Code as well as the City's own policies and regulations. Information gathered from building permit applications provide insights into demographic changes and development activity. It is also used to calibrate the City's population estimates. Information is available on current building permit activity as well as building permit activity for previous years. Previous Years Building Permit Summaries: 2026 Building Permit Summaries 2025 Building Permit Summaries 2024 Building Permit Summaries 2023 Building Permit Summaries 2022 Building Permit Summaries 2021 Building Permit Summaries 2020 Building Permit Summaries 2019 Building Permit Summaries
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	buildings commercial construction development development statistics development type industrial institutional residential
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.	0.12
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry	e86ac65a1bb34b1a80a91e5dff72d517
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2025-10-22
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

Field	Value
Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).	public
License License used to access the dataset.	License not specified
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://opendata-surrey.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/surrey::building-permit-summary
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	SurreyGIS
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	City of Surrey
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.	City of Surrey
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.
Author Author of the dataset.	SurreyGIS
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.	2026-09-18

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.	e86ac65a1bb34b1a80a91e5dff72d517
Language Language(s) of the dataset	English
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.	https://opendata-surrey.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/surrey::building-permit-summary
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

Field	Value
Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	None
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.	City of Surrey
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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