Municipality of Haarlem
Where is the building file of your house in Haarlem?
Which archive holds the file depends on the year the permit was granted. Below is where to be for each period, with the date on which I checked it.
This covers Schalkwijk, Haarlem-Noord and Spaarndam-West as well.
Period by period
The counters in Haarlem
Up to 2010 Haarlem is straightforward. The whole holding of the Noord-Hollands Archief is searchable online and a large part of it downloads as a scan, free of charge.
1888 to 2010
Noord-Hollands Archief
Search by address under Uitgebreid zoeken, which is their advanced search. The documents inside a file download one by one. A file holds the application and the permit decision, usually with building drawings and structural drawings in black and white. Questions go to inlichtingen@noord-hollandsarchief.nl.
As I noted it in Dutch, with the links and the exact terms you will need on their website:
Het hele bestand is online doorzoekbaar en een groot deel is als scan te downloaden, gratis. Zoek via Uitgebreid zoeken op adres; de documenten in een dossier zijn afzonderlijk te downloaden. https://noord-hollandsarchief.nl/studiezaal/broninformatie/bouwdossiers-zoeken/haarlem
- Een dossier bevat de aanvraag en de vergunningverlening, meestal met bouwtekeningen en constructietekeningen in zwart-wit.
- Vragen: inlichtingen@noord-hollandsarchief.nl
I can look this file up and download it for you.
From 2011
gemeente Haarlem
From 2011 the municipality handles it by email. I have not confirmed that route, so this is the one period here I cannot promise to request for you.
As I noted it in Dutch, with the links and the exact terms you will need on their website:
For this period I have not yet checked whether the archive also supplies me.
I checked these details on 14 September 2026. Counters and period boundaries change; if something no longer holds, please tell me.
In Dutch
The same page in Dutch, where you can also look up your own address: bouwtekeningen opvragen in Haarlem.
Rather not do this yourself
I put together the file for your address
For € 145 including VAT I collect the building file and everything else known about your address that can matter structurally: the cone penetration tests nearby, the soil profile, the foundation picture of the neighbourhood, the plot details and the aerial photographs year by year. With it you get a reader's guide in English that says what is there and what is missing. For € 295 I also map the load-bearing structure of the house: the walls that carry load on each floor, the roof, the foundation and what keeps it stable. Only after what the public records say, without the archive? Then there is the address report for € 95.
Have me do the structural calculation afterwards and this amount comes off it. If the archive holds nothing, you get your money back.