City of Norfolk
Norfolk, VA permit monitoring
PermitChime reads City of Norfolk's published permit records and tells you when one of them changes. Everything on this page describes that source, not a plan feature.
The authority
- Issuing authority
- City of Norfolk · City authority
- Official portal
- data.norfolk.gov(opens in a new tab)
- How often the source publishes
- City of Norfolk publishes updates once a day.
- How often PermitChime re-checks
- Every 6 hours on the free plan, as often as every 4 hours on the fastest paid plan — never faster than City of Norfolk republishes.
PermitChime is not a government agency and is not affiliated with any permitting authority. The issuing authority remains the authoritative source for every permit record.
What this source covers
Norfolk's Development Service Center republishes permits, plan reviews and inspections to its open data portal once each weekday: permit status, discipline-level plan reviews, inspection results and fee totals are covered, while reviewer and inspector comments, permit conditions and documents are not published at all, and fee amounts are usually only filled in once a permit has been issued.
| Record detail | Monitored here |
|---|---|
| Permit status | Yes |
| Plan reviews | Yes |
| Inspections | Yes |
| Fees | Yes |
| Conditions | No — not published |
| Comments | No — not published |
| Documents | No — not published |
| Address search | Yes |
Norfolk permit numbers
A Norfolk permit number is a type prefix, a two-digit year, a dash and a sequence, like B23-01909.
Example: B23-01909
Monitor a Norfolk permit
PermitChime re-reads City of Norfolk's record on a schedule and tells you when something in it actually changes. You can also look a permit up right now without an account.