City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
We provide information and advice on matters related to food and provide instructions on food business. In addition, you can contact us if you want...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
If you suspect that an animal is being mistreated, please file an animal welfare notification to a supervising veterinarian. Any cases of animal...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The owner or occupier of a plot may apply for an amendment to the local detailed plan. Contact the area planner before submitting your application.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Read about the responsibilities and obligations of the party starting the construction project and the site supervisor. The Lupapiste service is...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
If your company handles food of animal origin in the food premises before delivery to retail, you must apply for approval from the City’s Food...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
A street, a square or a park can be used as a work area with the city’s approval.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You can order a boundary demonstration for clarifying the location of the boundaries of a plot or a height demonstration for determining the...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Helsinki Building Control Services files drawings and approval documents related to construction projects in Helsinki. They can be found in the...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
A business parking permit allows you to either park near your company’s business premises or park almost anywhere in the inner city, both for a low...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Order a cable report for excavation, drilling and quarrying works before you file an excavation notice and start the work. You can apply for a...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Operators of the City of Helsinki offer various services supporting the circular and sharing economy.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
A cooperation network for climate matters between the City, business world and other operators.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Acquiring the documentation necessary for moving a corpse between countries requires a control authority to be present to ensure that the coffin is...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Read about booking a commencement meeting, making a commencement notification and submitting special plans.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The water quality of beaches, swimming halls and other swimming pools is monitored by examining samples.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Before you can demolish a building, you will need either a demolition permit or you must submit a demolition notice.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Helsinki has parks for dogs around the city, which means fenced areas.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You can book a fixed weekly reservation for dog training at dog training fields. The same fields can also be used for organising daytime training...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Eco-support is an operating model developed for promoting environmental awareness in the workplace.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
A lighter environmental management system for SMEs and City organisations.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
A lighter environmental management system for events.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The City of Helsinki offers help and support free of charge for all housing companies in Helsinki.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Environmental education services are targeted at all age groups. Environmental educators can obtain input and inspiration from nature schools and...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Courses organized by the Helsinki Metropolitan Area nature centres and nature schools are aimed at the area¿s teachers, daycare centre personnel,...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The City environment sector's Environment services maintains information related to energy conservation, sustainable consumption and other...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Environmental healthcare covers assignments in accordance with the Health Protection Act, Food Act, Tobacco Act, and Act on Veterinary Service.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Actions or operations that may cause environmental pollution or the risk of it require a permit.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
A food truck is a mobile food establishment that has been registered as a motor vehicle or cart. You can apply for an operational licence for the...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
If you need to do excavation work on a street, on a pedestrian or cycling lane, on a square or in a park, you need to fill out a notification about...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Finnish nature in spring invites everybody to explore its beauty. The cities of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area provide outdoor opportunities for...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
A property in the operating area of a water company can request an exemption from the city from connecting to a water main or to wastewater or...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
An official veterinarian can grant a health certificate for an animal entering another country if a certificate is needed when travelling outside...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Kiosk spots are sales spots intended for selling ice cream, grill products and other food items.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Order a geothermal well feasibility study to find out whether it is possible to build geothermal heating on your plot. Apply to add a geothermal...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Data on groundwater levels is available from an online service.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The Harakka Nature Centre offers visitors encounters with nature, activities, and information on the Baltic Sea, maritime nature and sustainable...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Harakka Nature School offered exploration days for schools.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The apartments of Heka (Helsingin kaupungin asunnot Oy) are reasonably priced state-subsidised rental apartments. The apartments are intended...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
We provide advice and guidance when you are looking for information on Hitas housing.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The Housing Health Team of Environmental Services advises you on matters related to indoor air and noise nuisances in your home. We will also...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You must submit written notifications on the commencement and termination of food export and import operations to the City of Helsinki...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The Harakka Island off the Kaivopuisto Park shoreline organizes 4-hour-long island adventures free of charge for Helsinki daycare centres from May...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
On the Island in front of Kaivopuisto you find Harakan luontokeskus, a nature centre. It organises free 2-3 hours island adventure trips for 4-10...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Daycare centres can use city-owned parks as play areas or rent public areas for use as additional yards.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Litter, items, and waste left in public areas can be reported to the City environment division's customer service.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You can use a sales vehicle or trailer to sell food, drinks and other products and services. With a mobile sales agreement, entrepreneurs are...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The City environment sector's Environmental Health unit is responsible for monitoring the health conditions of beauty salons, tattoo shops, and...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The City environment sector's Environmental Health unit is responsible for monitoring the health conditions of public spaces, such as daycare...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You can apply for state subsidies for some construction and renovation projects, either as an interest-subsidised loan or a guaranteed loan. You...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Nature conservation in Helsinki is based on the Nature Conservation Act (1996). The main goal of nature conservation in the city is to maintain...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Non-subsidised rental apartments are standard rental apartments whose tenant selection does not consider urgency or wealth limits. You can apply...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You must submit a notification about the commencement, substantial change, change of operator or termination of activities involving food contact...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Operator, submit a notification under the Environmental Protection Act for activities that cause particularly disruptive noise or vibration, such...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You can report an environmental hazard to the Helsinki Environmental Monitoring and Supervision Unit if contacting the party causing the hazard...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Submit a registration notification for primary production to the supervision of foodstuffs run by the city. Primary production includes, for...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Establishing a water plant or distributing domestic water requires an application or notification, as specified in the Health Protection Act.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You must submit a notification to the City’s environmental services if you operate, for example, a beauty parlour, hotel, school, daycare centre or...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Notify the Finnish Food Authority of the animals and their keeping location.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You need a permit to organize an event on a street, square or park if the event restricts the public use of the area. A permit is required if the...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
If outdoor sales of foodstuffs (mobile food premises) operations are launched, the operator must make the registration notification defined in...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
An outdoor seating area is an area on a street or in a park where restaurants and cafés serve food and drink. You can lease land in front of your...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
On this page, you will find information about parking control in Helsinki and tips for parking.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
On this page, you will find information about paying parking fines, postponing their due dates and submitting claims for rectification. You can...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
A parklet is a parking space that is temporarily re-purposed for other use. You can make an application for a parking spot in front of your high...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You can use the pavement in front of your shop for presentation and sales operations.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The Urban Environment Division issues permits for construction in public areas: streets, squares and parks.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You will need to make a placement agreement with the city if you want to place permanent structures, such as cable connections, access routes,...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Building geothermal heat and energy wells requires a permit.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
This page provides information about plot divisions and estimates, the parcelling of plots and property definition.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Building permit applicants need a building permit map and a report on the owners of neighbouring properties for hearing the neighbours as...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
On this page, you will find information on how a party that has reserved a plot owned by the City of Helsinki must apply for a short-term or...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
This page contains information on how a tenant of a plot leased from the City of Helsinki takes care of matters related to the lease agreement.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
This page provides information about purchase certification.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
In the parks and on the streets of Helsinki you find City toilets.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
A real estate easement pertains to a real estate entered into the real estate register (Land Information System), while a building easement...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Submit a notification of your food business when you start your restaurant or store business, substantially change, suspend, or cease activities....
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You need to register your food truck or other mobile food establishment for regular operations and also inform the food control authorities of your...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You must register your mobile food establishment for regular operation and notify the authorities when you are operating at events.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
We provide guidance to applicants for rental housing owned by the City of Helsinki.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
We lease out the city’s land and water areas for a variety of temporary or small-scale operations.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Water areas can be rented for the purpose of operating a restaurant ship or a floating terrace, for example.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
City environment sector's Evironmental protection unit will give advice on who is in charge of extermination of the rats. If you see rats in the...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Resident parking permits make it possible for you to park in your residential area’s designated parking spaces for a monthly fee. Resident parking...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The City leases and sells plots for houses, apartment buildings and row houses.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You can apply for the right to commence construction of an entire building or part thereof before the building permit is legally valid. The right...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Right-of-occupancy housing is an intermediate form of housing between rental and owner-occupied housing.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Since the strands of the Vantaajoki are even, it is easy for people of all ages, even physically disabled to approach the rug washing places. The...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You need a permit under the Tobacco Act in order to engage in the retail sale of tobacco products, nicotine-containing liquids and non-combustible...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Hitas is a system used in Helsinki for regulating the price and quality of housing. The selling price of homes is regulated in both new and old homes.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
On request by the ships, the Environment services performs ship inspections in accordance with the WHO’s international health regulations (IHR) at...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
A housing community, i.e. the owner of a building, can apply for a smoking ban in the balconies, yards and indoor areas of dwellings. The ban is...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Vehicles over 12 metres in length require a special permit to drive into Helsinki city centre.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
City environment sector's Environment Food Safety Unit supervises the quality and hygiene aspects of foodstuffs in Helsinki. Foodstuffs supervision...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The city has a statutory duty to supervise the tenant selection for state-subsidised rental apartments. At the City of Helsinki, the responsibility...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Notify the municipal food control authority if you suspect that a food that you have sold, served or consumed has caused food poisoning, an...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
We lease out sales spots for public holidays and urban events.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Work on a street or in a park that affects pedestrian, cycling or other vehicle traffic requires a temporary traffic arrangements plan.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Order a terrain marking and ground review at the beginning of the construction phase. Order other reviews to be carried out during construction,...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The City of Helsinki’s Urban Environment Division is at your service in matters related to parking, streets and parks.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Associations and communities can lease land areas from the City for small-scale urban farming. In urban farming, plants are grown in growing...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The City of Helsinki must sometimes ask residents to move their vehicles in order to make way for street cleaning, street construction work or...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The duties of veterinarians of Urban Environment Division include the protection of Helsinki-based animals, prevention of animal diseases and...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority (HSY) organises the collection and transport of municipal waste in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
The Environmental Services oversee companies’ and city residents’ compliance with the Waste Act.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
Notify us if your earth construction involves small-scale waste recovery.
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
A property situated in a sparsely populated area must provide an account of the wastewater system. It is possible to apply for an exemption from...
City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division
You can reserve a street or park area from the City as a temporary work area. Notify the City if you are going to excavate in a street or park...