Public Areas Permits

A permit is required for digging, placing structures and equipment, and organizing traffic in Imatra's streets and parks.

Permits are applied for electronically through the Lupapiste:

www.lupapiste.fi

Investment agreement

Placing a permanent pipe, wire, cable or other device, structure, etc. on or above or below a street or other public area requires an agreement with the city of Imatra. The contract must be applied for well in advance of the intended start of the work. The investment agreement is applied for through the Lupapiste.fi service. After the investment permit is granted, the person performing the work must also apply for a street permit.

The plan map required as an annex to the agreement must be based on an up-to-date base map. The map must clearly show what will be built and where it will be built. The tasks of the applicant for the placement agreement include survey work related to the location of the cable, device or structure, such as e.g. land ownership, planning situation, finding out management information and trees. The need to remove valuable plants must be reported by ticking the landscape work permit section in the application and indicating the plants in e.g. the map appendix.

The investment contract is free of charge.

Street permit

The person responsible for the work must apply for a street permit before starting work on the street or other public area. Responsible for the work means the person on whose behalf the work is being done (=builder). The application for a street permit can be made by the contractor they use with a power of attorney, which does not, however, transfer the responsibilities referred to in the law. The application must be made in the Lupapiste.fi service no later than 3 weeks (21 days) before the start of work. The application for leakage etc. emergency work must be submitted no later than the next business day. The city of Imatra issues a street permit as a sign of processing, which gives instructions on how to carry out the work.

The work can be started as soon as the street permit has been granted and the regional supervisor has been notified of the start of the work.

The application must be made for all work that takes place in the public area. These include, among others:

• excavation work
  • construction and repair work on the property, for which part of the street is demarcated or
  • from the general area to a work site
  • water supply, drainage, electricity, telephone and district heating works
  • scaffolding to be erected in the public area
  • withdrawals from the street
  • storing transport and pallets on the street
  • special transports
  • other general area deployment

Reports or plans must be attached to the application, indicating:

• use of the area during work and the extent of the area needed for work
  • the duration of work
  • traffic arrangements during working hours
  • the person in charge of the site and his professional qualifications
  • placement of existing wires, equipment and structures

If the extent of the area needed for the work differs from that stated, the supervisor must be notified immediately. Deliberate or negligent failure to report is a punishable act, for which the person responsible for the work can be sentenced to a fine.

Street permit is chargeable

Street permit payment categories and fees

The municipality has the right - and according to § 14 b of the Sanitation Act - to collect a fee for the costs incurred for the inspection of notices and supervision of work on street and other public areas. Likewise, the municipality may charge a reasonable fee for temporarily demarcating the street and public area from public use to a construction site. The inspection and supervision fee for the notification is fixed. The fee for using the area is determined based on the duration of the work and the extent of the area.

Payments for works performed in street and other public areas:

The street permit fee is €150,00/permit

Area usage fee €/ week VAT 0%

• less than 50 m2 €100,00
• 50–500 m2 €200,00
• 501–1000 m2 €300,00
• more than 1000 m2 for each starting 1000 m2 €200,00               

*Additional inspection visit €500

The charging of the area rental fee starts when the area is taken out of general use. The charge ends when the work is finished, a written notification of its completion has been submitted to the Permit Center and the area has been received with approval.

• The fee includes a street permit, inspection of the temporary traffic control plan and two inspection visits. If an additional inspection visit has to be made to the construction site due to the permit holder's negligence, a separate fee will be charged for the visit.
  • The fee is not charged if the work is done in connection with other work related to street construction. This can be the new construction of a street or its basic repair, in which case the cables or equipment can be placed in the street structures at the same time.
  • The fee is charged for one site only once, even if the purpose of the work is the construction of several cables or devices at the same time. In the joint project of several developers, the main contractor/builder makes a notification to the city.
  • There is no fee for snow removal from the roofs of properties.
  • No fee is charged for the construction or repair of a vehicle access to the property or for minor work on the property, provided that the work does not require a separate traffic arrangement.

Several small, similar repair or modification works (e.g. replacement of covers or valves) can be combined in the same notification. All works must be identified in the notice and must be carried out continuously in the same district.

Supervision of works, Mitra Imatra Rakennuttaja Oy:
Konsta Toikka
phone: 0407759342
consta.tokkamitra.fi

Street permit instructions and conditions

Payments for event permits

Event permit fee €150,00/permit

If traffic arrangements have to be changed due to a sales and advertising location or an event, then an inspection and supervision fee will be charged for the inspection of the notification of traffic arrangements and the supervision of traffic arrangements

Traffic control fee €150/visit

Events with an entrance fee €200/day

Additional inspection visit €500,00/ visit

Grants sales, advertising and event permits for Inkerinaukio, Koskenpartaa and Imatra market areas Imatra city center association.