For contractors and designers: the lot's record before the first drawing

One page for one address: zoning, lot and building size from the City's maps, extra units, heritage, the conservation authority area and flood plain, the tree by-law, permits on file and applications for the address, the slope and soil, utility lines and planned street works. Each line has its status, the record, its source and the date it was read.

Your job number heads the page, and it prints or saves as a PDF. Public records only, never a zoning review, a permit, a survey or a utility locate.

Open the sample site records page

Ordering opens soon. Write to [email protected] and we'll tell you when it does. Where a town doesn't publish a record, its line says so and names the office to ask (coverage by town).

1. The first call: an owner who found you through the contractors' guide arrives with the report for their home in hand, ordered as the owner's report, or runs the free check for the address first, including whether extra units are allowed and the tree rules.
2. The lot before the drawing: the full report reads the zoning and the Official Plan designation, heritage status, and the City's mapping of the lot and the building.
3. What the project runs into: the flood plain overlay, trees on and near the lot, rural municipal drains, pipelines, power lines and rail nearby, and the mapped soil; then the permits and applications on file for the address and the services at the lot.
4. The quote: every line names its source and the date it was read, so the scope rests on the record. A watermark carries the order number and part of the ordering email.

Order a 10-report packSee the sample report

With a pack, send up to three addresses with the order and the rest by reply to your report email, any time within twelve months, naming the file each report is for. Reports go to the email on the order; you forward them. Prices in CAD and include HST; the receipt is in the report email.

Firm packs (25 and 50 reports) are priced on request until their links are live: email with the firm's name and the number of people who will order.

Owners reading the contractors' guide are planning a project. A contractor or designer listed there is found by them, by city, with the lot's record already compiled.

A listing is free and goes up after we check the registration you give us: for a new-home builder, the HCRA's Ontario Builder Directory; for a trade, its public register. OfferDue takes no referral fee and pays none: nothing passes between us when an owner hires you.

Ask to be listedWho works with OfferDue

• No opinion on whether a project will be approved: the building and planning departments decide.
• No interpretation of a by-law or a plan: the report says what each record shows and where it comes from.
• Not a permit, a zoning certificate or a survey, and no substitute for any of them.
• No fee tied to a contract, in either direction.

Who does what in an Ontario offer, and the register for each licence: the roles page. The records behind a project, stage by stage: the contractors' guide.

Packs, a listing or a business arrangement: . Help with a report you've received: [email protected].

Reports and receipts come only from [email protected], and we never ask for card details by email.