Vancouver recorded 4,739 Addition / Alteration permits over the last 24 months, averaging $476K in declared value each.
Part of 9,369 total building permits SiteWire tracks for Vancouver, sourced from the city's official open-data portal.
How many Addition / Alteration permits does Vancouver issue?
Vancouver recorded 4,739 Addition / Alteration permits over a 24-month window in SiteWire's permit dataset, out of 9,369 building permits of all types tracked for Vancouver in the same window.
How long does a Addition / Alteration permit take to issue in Vancouver?
Where Vancouver publishes an application date, SiteWire measures the gap to issuance. For Addition / Alteration permits, the average is 72.3 days and the median is 41 days. Permit-volume and (where available) application-to-issuance timing benchmarks from the Wolf Codes permit dataset. The data has no approval/denial column, so these are NOT approval rates — they measure how many permits were issued, their declared value, and how long issued permits took where a processing-time field is published.
Where does this Vancouver permit data come from?
All data originates from Vancouver's official municipal open-data portal, published under an open government licence. SiteWire normalizes and enriches every record.
Vancouver tracks 9,369 building permits worth $11.5B across every permit type.
See the full Vancouver permit dashboardSource: Vancouver's official municipal open-data portal, published under an open government licence. Volume and timing benchmarks last computed 2026-06-19. Permit-volume and (where available) application-to-issuance timing benchmarks from the Wolf Codes permit dataset. The data has no approval/denial column, so these are NOT approval rates — they measure how many permits were issued, their declared value, and how long issued permits took where a processing-time field is published.
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