urban-brussels/brussels-permits

PHP wrapper for Nova API, using DTO. Nova is a shared IT platform of the Brussels-Capital Region dedicated to the file management of planning permits, land division permits and environmental licences.

2.0.0 2026-01-21 13:36 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.1
• ext-intl: *
• ext-simplexml: *
• ici-be/ici-tools: 0.3.5
• maennchen/zipstream-php: ^2.1
• predis/predis: ^2.2
• symfony/cache: ^7.1
• symfony/http-client: ^6.0|^7.0
• symfony/http-foundation: ^5.4|^6.0|^7.0
• symfony/translation: ^7.1
• symfony/validator: ^7.1
• symfony/yaml: ^7.1
• urban-brussels/wfs-client: dev-main
• wgirhad/geophp: ^3.0

Requires (Dev)

• roave/security-advisories: dev-latest
• symfony/contracts: ^3.5

MIT

• Brussels
• Planning permits
• Environmental permits

README

A PHP library to interact with the Urban Brussels Planning Permits WFS API (Nova). This library allows you to query planning permits (PU) and environmental permits (PE), filter them by location, date, or status, and retrieve detailed information.

composer require urban-brussels/brussels-permits

Configuration

If you are using Symfony, you can configure the service in your services.yaml to enable autowiring:

services:
    UrbanBrussels\BrusselsPermits\Service\PermitMapper: ~
    UrbanBrussels\WfsClient\WfsClient:
        arguments:
            $wfsUrl: 'https://geoservices-others.irisnet.be/geoserver/Nova/ows'

    UrbanBrussels\BrusselsPermits\PermitsClient:
        autowire: true
        autoconfigure: true

If you are using this library in a standalone PHP project, you need to instantiate the client manually:

use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\HttpClient;
use UrbanBrussels\BrusselsPermits\PermitsClient;
use UrbanBrussels\BrusselsPermits\Service\PermitMapper;
use UrbanBrussels\WfsClient\WfsClient;

$httpClient = HttpClient::create();
$wfsClient = new WfsClient($httpClient, 'https://geoservices-others.irisnet.be/geoserver/Nova/ows');
$mapper = new PermitMapper();

$client = new PermitsClient($wfsClient, $mapper);

Usage

Version 2.0 introduces PermitsClient, a fluent interface for building queries.

Basic Query

To fetch permits, you must first select the type using from() (PermitType::PU for Urban Planning, PermitType::PE for Environmental), apply filters, and finally call get().

use UrbanBrussels\BrusselsPermits\Model\PermitType;

$permits = $client
->from(PermitType::PU)
->filterByReference('04/PFD/169999')
->get();

foreach ($permits as $permit) {
echo $permit->novaReference; // e.g. 04/PFD/169999
echo $permit->address;       // e.g. Rue de la Loi 155, 1040 Bruxelles
}

Migration from 1.x

Version 2.0 introduces breaking changes:

1. WFSQueryService is deprecated. You should now use PermitsClient.
2. The query logic is now fluent (chained methods) instead of passing large arrays of conditions.
3. The Query service helper is also deprecated.