Community

Thorncliffe building permits

Thorncliffe is listed in the City of Calgary open data as THORNCLIFFE (community code THO). The sections below are calculated from the permit rows stored under that name.

Stored permits
245
With an issued date
146
Without an issued date
99

Thorncliffe has 245 building permit records in CalgaryPermit's copy of the City of Calgary Building Permits open data. 146 have an issued date and 99 do not. These figures describe the rows stored on this site, not an official citywide total. The earliest applied date stored for this community is 2000-03-16 and the latest is 2026-11-02.

In the stored rows, the most common permit type label is Residential Improvement Project (182 records), and the most common work class is Alteration (146 records). Permit type is the City's project category. Work class says whether the job is new construction, an alteration, an addition, a repair, a demolition, or another label the feed uses. Read both with the permit class and the description on each record. A type label alone does not say whether the City has issued the permit.

An estimated project cost is filled in on 143 of 245 stored permits. The average of those reported estimates is $138,610.80 and the sum is $19,821,343.86. The City publishes estprojectcost as an estimate attached to the application. It is not a contract price, a final invoice, or a City assessment, and permits with a blank estimate are left out of both numbers.

Applications with an applied date in the last 12 months: 68. Applications with an applied date in the 12 months before that: 85. If the older window is small, the usual reason is that this site's copy does not go back that far for the community, not that the neighbourhood had no construction.

The contractor name published most often in this community's stored permits is TRUE NORTH CONCRETE CUTTING AND CORING, on 6 permits. A repeated name is a clue that the company appears in the open data. It is not a City ranking, a licence check, or a count of crews on site. The same firm can be spelled more than one way, and a blank contractor name means the City did not publish one on that row.

Source: City of Calgary Open Data — Building Permits (dataset c2es-76ed). CalgaryPermit stores a copy of that feed and calculates the figures on this page from that copy. The City of Calgary is the publisher of the original file.

Permit type
Label in the stored copyPermits
Residential Improvement Project182
Commercial / Multi Family Project32
Single Construction Permit16
Demolition15
Work class
Label in the stored copyPermits
Alteration146
New63
Addition15
Demolition15
Repair3
Unspecified2
Fire/ Security Alarm1
Mapped permit class
Label in the stored copyPermits
Residential206
Non-Residential22
Unspecified17
Current status
Label in the stored copyPermits
Completed70
Cancelled69
Issued Permit63
Hold13
Pre Backfill Phase10
New9
Application Received3
Pending Plans Review2
Pending Plans Review Assignment2
Expired1
In Review1
Pre Board Phase1
Refused1

Reported cost estimates

143 of 245 stored permits include an estimated project cost. The average of those estimates is $138,610.80 and the sum is $19,821,343.86. Permits with a blank estimate are not in either figure.

Applications by month

Each row is the number of stored permits whose applied date falls in that month, for the last 24 months present in the copy. Applied in the last 12 months: 68. Applied in the previous 12 months: 85.

MonthApplications
2024-125
2025-014
2025-024
2025-036
2025-046
2025-057
2025-066
2025-079
2025-0810
2025-0915
2025-109
2025-116
2025-1210
2026-015
2026-027
2026-037
2026-042
2026-051
2026-066
2026-073
2026-084
2026-094
2026-1012
2026-111

Contractor names published in this community

Name in the open dataPermitsLatest applied date
TRUE NORTH CONCRETE CUTTING AND CORING6September 9, 2026
JJ HOMES5October 23, 2026
MANN BUILDERS5December 1, 2025
MIDAS HOMES4December 3, 2025
PILTOVER4March 5, 2026
ALLIANCE RENOVATIONS & CONCRETE3December 19, 2025
CLOVERHILL CONSTRUCTION3February 18, 2026
INFILL HOMES3May 29, 2026

Recent permits

PermitAddressWorkAppliedIssued
BP2026-21051
Application Received
715 64 AV NWAlteration · Residential Improvement Project
Basement Dev
November 2, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20524
Hold
703 BLACKTHORN RD NEAlteration · Residential Improvement Project
Basement Dev
October 26, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20444
New
337 TRAFFORD DR NWNew · Single Construction Permit
SFD,BSMT-DEV,PORCH,SSuite
October 23, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20442
New
335 TRAFFORD DR NWNew · Single Construction Permit
SFD,BSMT-DEV,PORCH,SSuite
October 23, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20445
New
337 TRAFFORD DR NWNew · Residential Improvement Project
Garage
October 23, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20443
New
335 TRAFFORD DR NWNew · Residential Improvement Project
Garage
October 23, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20021
Pending Plans Review
86 THORNLEE CR NWAddition · Residential Improvement Project
Addition, Basement Dev
October 19, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20009
Issued Permit
48 NORTHMOUNT DR NWDemolition · DemolitionOctober 19, 2026October 22, 2026
BP2026-19643
Application Received
219 TACHE AV NWAlteration · Residential Improvement Project
Secondary Suite
October 13, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-19565
Application Received
5923 THORNCLIFFE DR NWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectOctober 13, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-19634
Hold
6143 BUCKTHORN RD NWAlteration · Residential Improvement Project
Improvements
October 13, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-18946
Hold
5923 THORNCLIFFE DR NWAlteration · Residential Improvement Project
Improvements
October 2, 2026No issued date stored

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