Editorial review 2026-09-12 · Jurisdiction: Sweden — lov processing clocks as Boverket explains them

A ten-week sentence is not a granted lov — PBL 9:99 starts from a named day

Is a Swedish hall already “inside ten weeks” because a slide says the committee must decide, or because a dated Plan and Building Act chapter 9 file has actually named which day the clock started? Boverket’s processing-time page, used here from the PBL Knowledge Bank, says a decision on lov or förhandsbesked shall be taken within ten weeks. The time may be extended once by at most ten weeks, and if it is extended a decision on the longer time shall be taken. In an anmälan case a startbesked shall be decided within four weeks, extendable once by at most four weeks. Planning and Building Act (2010:900) chapter 9 section 99, in the wording Boverket quotes as amended by Act (2026:406), says the committee shall handle the case promptly and decide within ten weeks from (1) the day the application arrived (the application day), (2) the later day the applicant on its own initiative filed more material or changed the application, (3) the later day a consent under section 80 arrived from Försvarsmakten or Myndigheten för civilt försvar, or (4) the day the applicant cured a defect, if the committee within three weeks from the day in (1) or (2) ordered a cure under section 91 first paragraph. The second paragraph lets the ten-week period be extended once by at most ten weeks where the handling or the investigation makes that necessary; a solar-energy façade case under section 15 point 3 may be extended by at most two weeks. Section 99 a says that despite the first paragraph the committee shall decide within four weeks, with no extension, on a lov or förhandsbesked under section 15 point 3 for installing a heat pump whose installed capacity is below fifty megawatt. Planning and Building Ordinance (2011:338) chapter 6 section 5, as worded by Ordinance 2025:979, applies those clocks to an anmälan and sets the anmälan period at four weeks, extendable once by at most four weeks. Chapter 12 section 8 a says a fee for the listed handling steps shall be reduced by one fifth for each started week the section 99 first-paragraph clock is missed, unless the miss comes from a section 102 pause. Those are statute and agency sentences. They are not a reserved megawatt, not a giltighetstid after grant and not a Meta Luleå, Microsoft Gävle–Sandviken–Staffanstorp, Google Horndal, EcoDataCenter Falun or atNorth SWE04 calendar. The giltighetstid page already owns the two-plus-five clock after legal force. The förhandsbesked page already owns that earlier paper. This page only asks which published processing-time object the hall file is sitting on. This is orientation, not counsel.

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General orientation. Assess the specific project separately. Applies to: Readers placing a ten-week, silent-grant or we-already-filed sentence on a Swedish hall permit file.

Reading order

Name the paper class before you name the week. A lov or förhandsbesked sits on the ten-week desk. An anmälan sits on the four-week desk. A solar-energy façade under chapter 9 section 15 point 3 sits on a ten-week desk that may be extended by at most two weeks. A heat-pump façade under the same point, with installed capacity below the statutory fifty-megawatt figure, sits on a four-week desk that may not be extended. That fifty-megawatt figure is PBL’s façade heat-pump class, not a campus IT-load. Boverket writes that those special clocks apply only to façade changes that need a bygglov under section 15. A new hall building that happens to carry panels or a pump stays on the ordinary ten-week desk. A slide that says “everything is ten weeks” has not shown the class.

Then name the start day. Section 99 lists four possible starts. The application day is only the first. A voluntary later filing or a change of the application restarts the clock from that later day. A three-week completion order under section 91 moves the start to the day the defect was actually cured. An order issued after three weeks does not move the start: Boverket says the clock still runs from the application day. Mark- och miljööverdomstolen P 9807-21 / 2022:08, cited on the same page, says a clock that has already expired is not reset when later material arrives, whether the applicant volunteered it or the committee asked. Write which of the four starts the file is using before you say “week six.”

Then keep the pause on its own row. Section 102 lets the committee decide that the case shall not be decided until a shoreline-protection dispensation, an expropriation permit or an ongoing detaljplan or områdesbestämmelser job has finished. If the plan job has not finished within two years of the application, the lov or förhandsbesked shall still be decided without delay. Chapter 12 section 8 a says the one-fifth reduction does not apply where the miss comes from a section 102 decision. A municipal “we are waiting for the plan” e-mail is not that decision.

Then keep named project rows as paper classes. Microsoft names Gävle, Sandviken and Staffanstorp. EcoDataCenter names Falun. Google names Horndal. atNorth’s SWE04 note names Sollefteå. evroc names Arlandastad. None of those pages is a dated application day, a three-week completion order, a section 102 pause or a written extension decision for a named Swedish hall.

  • Paper class before any ten-week slogan.
  • Which of the four start days is live.
  • A late completion order does not restart the clock.
  • A missed clock is a fee-reduction desk, not a silent grant.

What the clock actually measures

The clock measures a duty to decide, not a duty to grant. Boverket’s application page says handling shall be prompt and that a first look should happen quickly, and that a missed decision is not an automatic lov. The receipt shall tell the applicant which clock applies and when it ends. A hall slide that treats silence as consent has not shown section 99.

A completion order measures a three-week window, not a courtesy e-mail. Boverket says the order should be a written decision, should name the defects and a latest cure date, and shall warn that the application may be dismissed or decided as it stands if the order is not followed. An informal “please send a better site plan” note that is not a written order does not move the start to the cure day. If the later filing does not actually cure the named defect, Boverket says the order has not been followed and the new clock has not started.

A fee reduction measures listed handling steps, not the whole campus invoice. Chapter 12 section 8 lists the steps the committee may charge for. Section 8 a reduces only the named lov or förhandsbesked handling steps — or the named anmälan steps — by one fifth per started seven-day period beginning the day after the clock ended. Boverket writes that after five such weeks those reducible parts reach zero, and that no further reduction is then available, while the duty to handle promptly remains. This page will not invent a kronor figure for a named hall.

Keep the giltighetstid desk off this row. The two-year start and five-year finish after legal force live on the giltighetstid page. They begin after a decision exists. They do not measure how long the committee may take to write that decision.

What named primary sources show

Boverket’s processing-time page, application page and fee-reduction page remain the dated agency desks used here. Planning and Building Act chapter 9 sections 99 to 99 a, 91 and 102, and chapter 12 section 8 a, remain the statute. Ordinance chapter 6 section 5 remains the anmälan bridge.

Those pages do not, in the files used here, name a processing-time decision for a named Swedish hall. Named operator rows remain geography.

The giltighetstid page, the förhandsbesked page and the anmälan-versus-bygglov page remain other desks. This page will not copy their clocks.

A matrix instead of a ten-week slogan

Draw one page with paper rows and evidence columns. Lov clock, anmälan clock, solar-façade clock, heat-pump-façade clock, completion-order start, section 102 pause and giltighetstid are different rows. Which day started the live clock, whether a written extension exists and whether a one-fifth reduction has been calculated are different columns. Empty cells stay empty.

Do not invent a national hall-permit week from those desks.

ObjectWhat a source can showWhat this page will not invent
Lov clockPBL 9:99 — ten weeks from a named start; one extension of at most tenA silent hall grant
Anmälan clockPBF 6:5 — four weeks; one extension of at most fourA hall startbesked week
Completion start9:91 within three weeks, then the cure dayA courtesy e-mail as a restart
Fee reduction12:8 a — one fifth per started week of named stepsA kronor invoice for Horndal

Common misreads

The first misread is to treat a missed ten-week clock as a granted lov. The section is a duty to decide. The second is to collapse that clock into the giltighetstid two-plus-five clock. The third is to treat a voluntary later filing as if it did not restart the clock, or a late completion order as if it did. The fourth is to treat a heat-pump or solar façade desk as the clock for a new hall.

The fifth is to invent a national hall week from Boverket’s worked fee example. The sixth is to treat a “waiting for the plan” note as a section 102 decision. The seventh is to use a groundbreaking in Luleå, Falun, Horndal or Arlandastad as proof that a named processing-time object already exists.

What to ask next

Ask which dated paper anyone is quoting — a receipt, a section 91 order, a written extension, a section 102 pause, or only a contractor note — and which measure it names. Ask which of the four starts is live.

Then open the giltighetstid page, the förhandsbesked page and the anmälan page. If the operator will not name the start day and the paper class, record the gap. Do not fill it from a ten-week slogan. This page is not legal advice.

  1. Is the live paper a section 99 clock — or only a press date?
  2. Has one of the four starts been shown, or only “we filed”?
  3. Has a late e-mail been treated as a three-week order?
  4. Has a missed clock been treated as a grant?
  5. Has a campus town been treated as a dated start day?

What this does and does not prove

This page proves that Boverket already publishes a ten-week lov clock, a four-week anmälan clock, four possible starts and a one-fifth reduction — and that those facts are not a reserved hall megawatt.

It does not prove that a named Swedish hall holds a dated start day. It does not invent a permit week for Horndal or Arlandastad. It does not treat silence as a grant.

Empty cells stay empty. Until a later primary source names the application, the start day and the decision, the processing clock stays a method, not a census. DataCenterSweden records the method.

Sources

  1. Boverket — Processing-time limits for lov, förhandsbesked and anmälan Boverket (publication date not stated). Checked 2026-09-12.
  2. Boverket — Application for a lov or förhandsbesked Boverket (publication date not stated). Checked 2026-09-12.
  3. Boverket — Fee reduction when a processing clock is missed Boverket (publication date not stated). Checked 2026-09-12.
  4. Planning and Building Act (2010:900) Sveriges riksdag, 2010-07-01. Checked 2026-09-12.
  5. Planning and Building Ordinance (2011:338) Sveriges riksdag, 2011-03-31. Checked 2026-09-12.
  6. Planning and Building Act guidance Boverket, 2026-01-01. Checked 2026-09-10.
  7. Microsoft opens its sustainable datacenter region in Sweden Microsoft, 2021-11-16. Checked 2026-09-10.
  8. EcoDataCenter 1, Falun EcoDataCenter, 2026-01-01. Checked 2026-09-10.
  9. Horndal, Sweden – Google Data Center Location Google Data Centers, 2026-09-01. Checked 2026-09-11.
  10. New 300MW mega site in Sollefteå, Sweden atNorth, 2026-02-23. Checked 2026-09-11.
  11. evroc finalizes land purchase in Arlandastad, Stockholm evroc, 2025-02-03. Checked 2026-09-10.

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