Surrey - single detached housing starts leader in Lower Mainland - Monday, March 22 2010
To put this number into perspective, Delta had only 129 single-detached starts for the entire year in 2009. Surrey’s manager of the residential section, John McKenzie, informs me the turnaround time for permits is 4-1/2 weeks for a regular builder, a week sooner for a registered builder. He said his department is working overtime during evenings and weekends. If the applications continue to flood in, March could be a record month for permit applications. The record for March is 200, set in 2003. In 2009, a dismal year, 53 applications were received in March.Surrey – the Lower Mainland’s runaway leader this year in single-detached housing starts – received 121 building permit applications for single-detached homes during the first 17 days of March. During the same period, 130 permits were processed and issued. To put this number into perspective, Delta had only 129 single-detached starts for the entire year in 2009. Surrey’s manager of the residential section, John McKenzie, informs me the turnaround time for permits is 4-1/2 weeks for a regular builder, a week sooner for a registered builder. He said his department is working overtime during evenings and weekends. If the applications continue to flood in, March could be a record month for permit applications. The record for March is 200, set in 2003. In 2009, a dismal year, 53 applications were received in March.
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