Little Rock building permits
New building permits in Little Rock (Pulaski County), turned into leads for contractors every Monday. Here is how the city publishes them and how to get them.
Monthly counts and declared values for Little Rock appear here once each month closes, taken from the city's own permit reports.
Recent permits in Little Rock
Public permit records. Subscribers received each of these the Monday after it was issued, with the builder's phone and email.| Issued | Permit # | Type | Address | Area | Value | Sq ft | Builder | Builder phone / email |
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| Recent Little Rock permits appear here as the city releases its report. | ||||||||
How Little Rock releases its building permits
The Department of Planning and Development issues a weekly Building Report and also publishes a full permit export (2019 to date) on the city's open-data page, with permit number, issue date, address, work class, declared value, square footage and contractor.
Permit records here come from the city and are public. A typical Little Rock permit record shows the permit number and issue date, the project address, the type of work (new home, addition, remodel or commercial), the declared value and square footage where the city records them, and the contractor named on the permit.
How to look up Little Rock building permits yourself
Building Permit Desk, 723 W Markham St, (501) 371-4832, Permits@littlerock.gov. The City of LR Data page on littlerock.gov carries the permit CSV, and the WebPermits system lets you check a permit's inspections by permit number.
Doing it yourself works if Little Rock is the only city you care about. Most crews work across several cities, each with its own format and schedule, which is the slow part we take care of. Our Arkansas permit lookup guide covers every city we track.
Little Rock building permit leads from Build Permit Signal
Covered by the Central Arkansas plan, $39 a month or $390 a year, with the River Valley included free — or take all of Arkansas for $50 a month. Little Rock reports arrive weekly, and every permit is added to your next Monday sheet with:
- Permit number, issue date, project address and type
- Declared value and square footage, when the city reports them
- Builder or contractor name from the permit, with business phone and email when publicly available
- Estimated call windows for roofing, HVAC, flooring and fence, counted from the permit date
See what the weekly sheet looks like, or get last month's Little Rock permits free in the same format.
Questions about Little Rock permits
How soon after a permit is issued will I see it?
The same week for weekly cities like Little Rock. Cities set the pace; we send what they publish as soon as it arrives.
Do you cover permits outside the city limits?
City permits only. Unincorporated areas around Little Rock are permitted by the county, where the county has a building department. Benton County, for example, publishes its own list, which we also track.
Nearby cities and trades
Most crews work across more than one city. Little Rock sits in Central Arkansas, and these markets are on the same weekly sheet:
Working a single trade? These pages show what each one gets from a Little Rock permit and when the call window opens:
See what's being built in Little Rock this week.
Get a free sample of last month's Little Rock permits, with builder contact details where public, in the same format subscribers receive.