Digital permit application gateway
Start with the issuing authority’s own submission lane. A complete application package, accurate valuation, and accessible inspection path are the fastest route through statutory plan review.
Recommended first click
Use the official digital gateway to submit plans, monitor review comments, pay required charges, and request inspections when the permit is issued. If the link is unavailable, use the agency website or phone number on the administrative profile to confirm the current lane.
Typical review lane
N/A; no general plan-review or issuance timeline is published. A permit becomes invalid if authorized work does not begin within 12 months of issuance or is suspended/discontinued for one year. Board of Zoning Appeals applications are decided within 30 days when applicable.
Treat this as a planning signal, not a guaranteed approval date. Completeness, corrections, resubmittals, and agency workload control the actual clock.
Verify the parcel is inside this agency’s service area and note whether a city, state, fire marshal, septic authority, or utility district also has approval authority.
Prepare legible plans, site information, project valuation, ownership authorization, contractor information, and any energy, floodplain, zoning, or utility documentation the issuing office requires.
Keep the permit number, approved plan set, correction comments, fee receipts, and inspection results together. Those records establish the compliance trail for the next trade.
Application documents
Before submission, call 931-729-5534 (Austin Brown, Building/ADA Coordinator); 931-729-2492 (County Mayor’s Office) if the project involves a change of occupancy, structural alteration, accessory structure, demolition, or work near a regulated environmental feature.
Source trail
Use these direct agency or licensing links to confirm current instructions before you file, pay, or schedule work. External pages control if their information differs from this directory.
Project questions
Hickman County Building Commissioner / Codes Enforcement, administered through the County Mayor’s Office is the identified county-level authority for this profile. Confirm that the property is in its service area before filing.
Begin with the online permit gateway listed in the application guide. If the portal does not recognize the address or project type, contact 931-729-5534 (Austin Brown, Building/ADA Coordinator); 931-729-2492 (County Mayor’s Office).
N/A; no general plan-review or issuance timeline is published. A permit becomes invalid if authorized work does not begin within 12 months of issuance or is suspended/discontinued for one year. Board of Zoning Appeals applications are decided within 30 days when applicable.
Contact the Building Commissioner/Building Coordinator at 931-729-5534 or austin.brown@hickmancountytn.gov for permit and inspection instructions. The resolution authorizes compliance inspections and requires a second inspection after a building or premises is ready for occupancy and within one year following occupancy; owners must correct deficiencies. Applications require written forms plus duplicate, scaled plans or plats showing the lot, structures, uses, and parking/loading information.
Hickman County’s official 2023 county-commission agenda records adoption of changes to the 2018 International Residential Code and adoption of the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code for new residential construction on or after July 1, 2023. The County Building Commissioner also enforces the current Hickman County Zoning Resolution, last updated March 2025, including floodplain and land-use controls. A zoning-compliance/building permit is required before excavation, construction, moving, alteration, repair, expansion, change of use, or filling of land. Agriculturally related construction is expressly exempt under Section 5.070. The resolution also exempts sealed-plan requirements for structures under three stories and 5,000 square feet, one- or two-family dwellings/domestic outbuildings, and farm buildings not intended for human habitation; this is a plan-sealing exemption, not a blanket permit exemption.
What makes an application complete
Before you click submit, make sure the drawings agree with the site plan, project description, valuation, ownership authorization, and contractor information. If the work changes structure, occupancy, drainage, fire protection, energy performance, or utility demand, describe that scope plainly. Ambiguous narratives create correction cycles and delay the field schedule.
Save the confirmation number, payment receipt, uploaded plan set, and every correction comment. Those records are the backbone of a defensible compliance file when multiple trades or agencies share responsibility.
Submission quality check
Site: address, parcel, access, setbacks, and existing conditions are consistent.
Scope: structural, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, fire, and energy work is identified.
Closeout: inspection contacts and the final approval path are understood before work begins.