Escambia County Building Services Department

County Building Permits (Unincorporated Escambia and Town of Century)

County Code Sec. 14-84 requires any owner or authorized agent who intends to construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, demolish or change the occupancy of a building or structure, or to install or alter any regulated electrical, gas, mechanical or plumbing system, to apply to the Escambia County Building Services Department and obtain the required permit first. The Building Services page states that the department conducts plan reviews, issues building permits and inspects new buildings and major improvements built in "the unincorporated areas of the county and the town of Century", so a restaurant fit-out, salon remodel or new retail building in those areas is permitted here; a site inside the City of Pensacola is outside that scope. The Plan Review page states that a separate building permit is required for each individual building, that application forms must be printed and hand-delivered, mailed or, depending on the form, faxed, and that fee estimate forms give only an estimate, with the final cost set at the end of the permit application process. Sec. 14-163 ties fees to a schedule set by the Board of County Commissioners. Building Services: 3363 West Park Place, Pensacola (850-595-3550; North Office in Cantonment, 850-587-5770).