Editorial review 2026-09-12 · Jurisdiction: Sweden — demolition permits under PBL as Boverket explains them
A demolition slide is not a rivningslov — PBL 9:43 is a later two-test door
May a Swedish hall already take an existing building away because a site slide says “we will clear the plot”, or because a dated Plan and Building Act chapter 9 file has actually tested a rivningslov? Boverket’s examination page, used here from the PBL Knowledge Bank, says a demolition-permit application is tested against only two conditions. The first is that the building work is not covered by a demolition ban in a detaljplan or in områdesbestämmelser. The second is that the building work should not be preserved because of the historic, cultural-historic, environmental or artistic value of the building or the built environment. Planning and Building Act (2010:900) chapter 9 section 43, in the wording Boverket quotes as amended by Act (2025:974), says that inside a detailed-development-plan area a rivningslov is required to demolish a building or part of a building, or all or part of another installation than a building if the plan contains a demolition ban or the installation is particularly valuable under chapter 8 section 13. Section 44 writes the door outside a plan. Section 45 lifts the inside-plan building door for a building put up under a temporary or seasonal lov, or for a building that may be put up without a bygglov unless it is particularly valuable. Section 46 lifts the door where the measure is necessary to follow an 11 chapter order. Section 75 says a rivningslov shall be given for a measure that is not covered by a demolition ban. Boverket’s inside-plan page adds that a demolition that does not need a lov may still need a notice under the Planning and Building Ordinance (2011:338) chapter 6 section 1 when a building larger than 50.0 square metres is taken down. Those are statute and agency sentences. They are not a reserved megawatt, not a bygglov and not a Meta Luleå, Microsoft Gävle–Sandviken–Staffanstorp, Google Horndal, EcoDataCenter Falun or atNorth SWE04 calendar. The marklov page already owns ground works. The ancient-remains page already owns the heritage desk under another act. This page only asks which published demolition-permit object the hall file is sitting on. This is orientation, not counsel.

General orientation. Assess the specific project separately. Applies to: Readers placing a plot-cleared, teardown-ready or existing-building-gone sentence on a Swedish hall site file.
Reading order
Name the object before you name the week. A rivningslov is a chapter 9 decision about taking a building work away. A bygglov is a different door about putting one up. A marklov is a ground-works door. A demolition notice under the ordinance is a later or alternative paper. Write which building work, which plan area and which dated decision, before you say the plot “has been cleared.”
Then name the geography of the door. Inside a detaljplan, section 43 is the starting row. Outside a plan, section 44 asks for a demolition-lov rule or ban in områdesbestämmelser, a particularly valuable building work, or a building inside a particularly valuable area. A slide that treats every Swedish field as if it were inside a plan has not shown the door.
Then keep the two tests on separate rows. A demolition ban already answers the question in the plan. Where there is no ban, Boverket still asks whether the work should be preserved for the named values. That second test is not a varsamhet or förvanskning trial of a bygglov. Boverket says those other tests are not used here.
Then keep named project rows as paper classes. Microsoft names Gävle, Sandviken and Staffanstorp. EcoDataCenter names Falun. Google names Horndal. atNorth names Sollefteå. evroc names Arlandastad. None of those pages is a section 43 decision, a section 75 grant or a demolition notice for a named existing building on those plots.
- Object and plan geography before any teardown slogan.
- Inside-plan section 43 is not the outside-plan section 44 door.
- A demolition ban and the preservation test stay on separate rows.
- A campus press note is not a rivningslov.
What the permit actually measures
The permit measures whether a named building work may be taken away, not whether a hall may be built. Boverket writes that demolition means removing the building work or a part of it, including the frame. Removing non-bearing parts while the frame stays is not demolition in that sentence. Taking everything except the foundation still is. Moving a building from one place to another is demolition on the old plot and may need a bygglov on the new one.
A demolition ban measures a plan answer, not a later taste. If the plan already forbids demolition, the committee cannot grant the lov. Boverket says that holds even if today’s value judgement differs from the judgement when the plan was adopted. A façade change is not that ban: Boverket keeps such outer-character measures on the förvanskning and varsamhet desks of a bygglov.
A notice measures a different ordinance row. PBF chapter 6 section 1, in the 2025:979 wording Boverket quotes, still asks for a notice when a building or part of a building larger than 50.0 square metres is demolished and no lov is required. That notice is not a rivningslov and not a startbesked.
Keep cultural-heritage and environmental desks off this row. A KML ancient-remain paper, a nature-reserve regulation and an 11 chapter order are other objects. This page will not treat a demolition lov as those papers.
What named primary sources show
Boverket’s examination page and inside-plan page remain the dated agency desks for the two tests, the inside-versus-outside doors and the 50.0-square-metre notice. Keep those objects attached to chapter 9 sections 43 to 46 and 75 in the 2025:974 wording. Do not invent a data-centre paragraph.
The marklov page, the temporary-permit page and the ancient-remains page remain other desks. Named operator rows remain land and event papers. They do not, in the files used here, name a rivningslov for a named Swedish hall plot.
A matrix instead of a teardown slogan
Draw one page with paper rows and evidence columns. Inside-plan lov, outside-plan lov, demolition ban, preservation test, ordinance notice and startbesked are different rows. Which building work, which plan and which date are different columns. Empty cells stay empty.
Do not invent a Swedish hall teardown week from a site photograph.
| Object | What a source can show | What this page will not invent |
|---|---|---|
| Inside-plan door | PBL 9:43 — building or part; other installation if ban or 8:13 value | A free plot-clearing week |
| Two tests | Boverket — no ban; not a building that should be preserved | A hall bygglov by another name |
| Notice | PBF 6:1 — building larger than 50.0 m² when no lov is required | A startbesked |
| Ban | 9:75 — a plan ban already answers no | A reserved hall megawatt |
Common misreads
The first misread is to treat a plot photograph as a rivningslov. The second is to collapse the two tests into a bygglov varsamhet trial. The third is to treat an outside-plan field as if section 43 already applied. The fourth is to treat a 50.0-square-metre notice as the lov itself.
The fifth is to invent a teardown week from a campus press note. The sixth is to treat a demolition ban as a façade-change ban. The seventh is to use Horndal or Arlandastad as proof that a named existing building already has a dated decision.
What to ask next
Ask which dated paper anyone is quoting — a section 43 lov, a section 44 lov, a demolition ban, a preservation refusal, a PBF notice, or only a site slide — and which building work it names. Ask whether the plot is actually inside a detaljplan.
Then open the marklov page, the temporary-permit page and the ancient-remains page. If the operator will not name the building work and the decision, record the gap. Do not fill it from a teardown slogan. This page is not legal advice.
- Is the live paper a rivningslov — or only a plot photograph?
- Is the door section 43 inside a plan, or section 44 outside?
- Has a demolition ban been shown, or only a wish to clear?
- Has a 50.0 m² notice been treated as the lov?
- Has a campus town been treated as a dated demolition file?
What this does and does not prove
This page proves that Boverket already publishes a rivningslov as a two-test chapter 9 door with an inside-plan and an outside-plan geography and a later ordinance notice — and that those facts are not a reserved hall megawatt.
It does not prove that a named Swedish hall holds a dated demolition decision. It does not invent a teardown week for Horndal or Arlandastad. It does not treat a campus press note as a rivningslov.
Empty cells stay empty. Until a later primary source names the building work, the plan and the dated paper, the demolition-permit clock stays a method, not a census. DataCenterSweden records the method.
Sources
- Boverket — Demolition permit inside a detailed development plan — Boverket (publication date not stated). Checked 2026-09-12.
- Boverket — Examining a demolition permit — Boverket (publication date not stated). Checked 2026-09-12.
- Planning and Building Act (2010:900) — Sveriges riksdag, 2010-07-01. Checked 2026-09-12.
- Planning and Building Ordinance (2011:338) — Sveriges riksdag, 2011-03-31. Checked 2026-09-12.
- Planning and Building Act guidance — Boverket, 2026-01-01. Checked 2026-09-10.
- Microsoft opens its sustainable datacenter region in Sweden — Microsoft, 2021-11-16. Checked 2026-09-10.
- EcoDataCenter 1, Falun — EcoDataCenter, 2026-01-01. Checked 2026-09-10.
- Horndal, Sweden – Google Data Center Location — Google Data Centers, 2026-09-01. Checked 2026-09-11.
- New 300MW mega site in Sollefteå, Sweden — atNorth, 2026-02-23. Checked 2026-09-11.
- evroc finalizes land purchase in Arlandastad, Stockholm — evroc, 2025-02-03. Checked 2026-09-10.