Dubai’s fit-out permit consultants — driven by Halo
Fit-out permits, approved.
Drawings to completion certificate.
Dubai Municipality, Civil Defence, Trakhees, DDA, DMCC and every free zone — one team manages your NOCs, drawings, submissions, comments and inspections. We don’t build interiors. We get them approved.
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Approval, made visible / Al Furjan
One stamp. Then the site moves.
Every building in Dubai starts as a stamped drawing. The approval is the moment a plan on the sand becomes a structure on the skyline — and that moment is the part we own.
The approval desk / Dubai
The permit partner your project team can keep.
FitOutPermits.ae is Halo's dedicated authority-approvals practice. We work behind the scenes for contractors, designers, landlord representatives and owners — keeping drawings protected while moving every approval forward.
- Independent by designWe do not tender for your fit-out or design work. Your client relationship stays yours.
- One desk, from drawing to certificateA named project manager owns submissions, authority comments, inspections and the close-out.
- Built on real Dubai fit-out experienceThe Halo group brings 25+ years of local delivery knowledge to every approval file.
Jurisdictions
Who governs your unit?
Dubai runs multiple parallel building-control regimes — your address decides which one owns your permit. Pick your area:
Select your area
Your permit authority
Dubai Municipality
Mainland (onshore) Dubai — commercial, residential and industrial buildings outside free zones
Dubai Municipality (DM) is the permitting authority for most onshore buildings in Dubai. If your office, shop, restaurant, clinic or warehouse sits on mainland land — not inside a free zone or a master developer's private jurisdiction — your fit-out permit is issued by DM through the Dubai Building Permit System (Dubai BPS).
The permit journey
Six steps. One owner. No surprises.
From free scope review to completion certificate — this is the sequence, and where each week is won.
The permit journeyApproved
Project types
Approvals by what you're building
Every project type triggers a different authority mix. Pick yours for the exact documents, watch-outs and timeline.
Free tools
Answers before anyone asks for your number
Nobody else in this market publishes their process. We built tools on top of ours.
Approval Finder
Answer five questions about your unit and project. Get your authority map, the NOCs you'll need, and a realistic timeline — in under a minute, no contact details required.
Permit Cost Calculator
Dubai Municipality charges AED 1 per sq ft — plus fixed fees, DCD charges and deposits. Enter your area and project type for an instant government-fee estimate.
Rejected? Stalled? Built without a permit?
Our approval-rescue desk audits the real position and quotes a fixed price to clean it — rejected submissions, dormant applications, unapproved works, failed inspections. The autopsy is free.
Guides
The knowledge, published
Costs, timelines, documents, rejection reasons — the questions everyone else answers with 'contact us'.
Trusted by
The developers, contractors and brands we file alongside
Client proof
When the pressure was on, the permit moved.
Six projects. Six different approval paths. One clear result: the client could keep building.
Restaurant fit-out, Palm Jumeirah
01We had a lease clock running and a landlord that wouldn't extend. FitOutPermits took the drawings, cleared Trakhees and Civil Defence in parallel, and we opened on the date we'd promised the investors. No drama, no last-minute surprises.
Outcome
Permit in 12 working days
Rana K.
Operations Director · Vero Hospitality
Trakhees · DCD
Questions
Asked constantly. Answered plainly.
A fit-out permit is the government authorisation to modify the interior of a unit — partitions, ceilings, MEP, fire systems, structure. In Dubai, virtually every commercial fit-out and most meaningful residential renovations require one before work starts. Working without it risks fines, stop-work orders, insurance invalidity and problems at every future licence renewal or property transaction.
It depends entirely on your unit's address: Dubai Municipality for mainland, DDA for TECOM districts, DMCC/Concordia for JLT, Trakhees for Palm Jumeirah and PCFC areas, DIFC for the financial centre, and each free zone (JAFZA, Dubai South, DSO, DHCC) for its own territory. Master communities like Emaar's and Nakheel's add a developer NOC on top. Our free Approval Finder tool answers this in under a minute.
We manage the entire approvals side of a fit-out: jurisdiction mapping, landlord and developer NOCs, permit-grade drawings with engineer stamping, authority submissions, comment resolution, Civil Defence coordination, inspections and the completion certificate. One project manager, one tracker, every authority.
No — deliberately. We are approvals specialists and never compete for construction or design work. That independence is why contractors and design firms hand us their permits: their client relationships and drawings stay protected.
Government fees are formula-driven — Dubai Municipality's headline rate is AED 1 per sq ft of built-up area, and a typical small commercial unit lands between AED 1,500 and 4,000 across authorities. Restaurants and clinics run higher due to extra approval tracks. Our consultancy fee is quoted fixed after a free scope review, with government fees passed through at cost. Try the cost calculator on this site for an instant estimate.
A clean package for a standard commercial unit typically reaches permit in 2–4 weeks from landlord NOC, with authority review rounds of 5–10 working days. Restaurants, clinics and structural scopes run longer because more authorities are involved. The biggest variable is package quality — which is the part we control.
Start with a free permit check
Send us the unit. We'll send back the map.
Location, current status, intended works — that's all we need. You get the authority map, document checklist, government-fee estimate and a fixed quote. Free, usually within one business day.
+971 55 969 3009 · hello@fitoutpermits.ae · Al Quoz, Dubai