Frequently asked questions

As soon as the building permits office registers the application, usually one to four working days after it is filed. The email goes out the morning after registration.

For an application under the accelerated procedure, that is several weeks before the official gazette publishes the permit.

The law does not publish everything there. A full application is published, with a thirty-day public inspection period (article 3 of the Geneva buildings act). An application under the accelerated procedure is not: only the permit is published, once granted.

RADAR-oac reads the data the canton publishes on the Geneva territorial information system (SITG), where every application appears once registered, whatever the procedure. The share of the accelerated procedure, measured every week, is shown on the home page.

That procedure has no public inspection period: seeing the application early serves to anticipate, prepare a case or make contact, not to file an objection. Only the permit, once published, can be appealed.

You receive nothing. No message is sent when there is nothing to report: silence means nothing has happened in your areas, not that the service is down.

No. When an alert is created, the current state of the area is recorded as already known. An alert watches the future, not the past. To see what already exists, use the search, which goes back through the full history.

Yes. Once you tick alert creation, a column of checkboxes appears in front of each result. Tick the applications to follow: the alert will cover only those and report their status changes, approval, works, or being dropped.

Yes. Just ask and we will enter your buildings for you, which saves you learning the service on day one. Useful when you have twenty addresses to monitor.

We do not need your password: the administration opens your account on your behalf, for one hour at most, and every such access is logged with its date. You may ask for this at any time, and ask us to check the log.

One address can cover several buildings. The plain number is the reference entrance, the suffixes the other buildings on the plot, a few metres apart. Over a radius of a hundred metres or more, the choice barely matters.

DD is a full application, APA a fast-track procedure for minor works, M a demolition. The other types are rarer and sit behind “Show all types”. Hovering over a code shows its full name.

Yes, the CSV button downloads the full table, openable in Excel, Calc or Numbers: filing date, number, subject, type, status, detailed status, distance and a link to the official record. The search settings appear at the bottom of the file.

Yes, the MAP button shows your results on the federal cadastral plan, with plot boundaries and their numbers. Each application is a dot coloured by its status.

Un dossier suit trois étapes : le dépôt par le requérant ou son mandataire, l’registration by the office, qui vérifie la recevabilité, puis la publication dans la Feuille d’avis officielle. RADAR-oac le voit dès la deuxième étape, soit en général one to four working days after filing, et bien avant la Feuille d’avis officielle.

Before registration, the application is not public anywhere: no tool, whatever it is, can report it. If you hear of a filing through another channel and it is not here yet, it has not been registered yet.

La date affichée sous les résultats indique jusqu’à quel jour les données du canton sont à jour.

The canton’s administrative tracking opens the record a little after registration. An application that has just been registered can therefore appear in RADAR-oac while its official record is not yet available. Note its number: the link will work in the following days.

No. RADAR-oac contains neither the applicant’s name, nor the agent’s, nor the case documents. Those are obtained from the building permits office, by requesting a copy or consulting the file on site, quoting the application number. A fee may apply.

The data comes from the public building permits layer of the Geneva territorial information system, published under licence A, which expressly permits commercial reuse. It contains no personal data. The building permits office was informed of this service and raised no objection.

No. RADAR-oac is a private information service, unconnected to the cantonal administration. Only the official gazette of the Republic and canton of Geneva starts objection and appeal deadlines.

No. The service covers the canton of Geneva and building permits only. No property sales, no public tenders, no debt collection or bankruptcy. An address in another canton will return nothing.

The cantonal layer covers applications from 1996. Applications before 1930 are held by the State Archives, and those decided between 1930 and 1996 by the archives service of the territorial department.

It runs for seven days from the opening of your access, alerts included, with no commitment and no payment details. Nothing is charged: at the end of the trial, access simply stops if no subscription is taken out.

From CHF 99 a year, VAT included, depending on the number of areas monitored. Full details are on the pricing page. Beyond 50 areas, write to us and we will prepare an offer.

No. It runs for 365 days from the opening of access and stops at expiry if you do not renew. No card is stored. You are notified by email thirty days, seven days, then on the day of expiry.

Your areas and their history are kept for ninety days. If you come back within that time, you find them intact and are not sent applications already reported.

Yes. Upload it when you request access, or later from My alerts. It appears at the top of your pages and on the building records you export as PDF.

PNG, JPEG or WebP, 2 MB at most. A PNG with a transparent background gives the best result. You can replace or remove it at any time.

Yes, on the office plan: several named users, and alerts can be sent to a shared service mailbox such as technique@regie.ch, while each person keeps their own credentials.