Building permits took a steep dive in the month of July in North Battleford.
According to numbers released this week at city council, City Hall had issued eight permits in July for a permit value of $826,700.
That compares to 15 permits for $9,187,500 for the same month a year earlier.
The numbers for the month include one new two-family permit valued at $403,200, one new garage permit for $30,000, three residential alterations for $24,500, one commercial alteration for $18,000 and two institutional alteration permits for $351,000.
Overall for the year through July, 68 permits have been issued for a total value of $16,255,000, which compares to 61 issued for $30,825,300 for the same period last year.
In Battleford, after a record year last in 2014, permits values so far this year are at slightly more than $4 million, with $562,900 for the month of July, with one residential permit. July last year saw values of almost $9 million, made up mostly of nine new residential builds.
By this time last year, the total for Battleford was $19.5 million, with $7 million in in industrial permits and $12 million in residential permit.
So far in August, as of Monday last week, another five residential permits had been issued worth $1.2 million.
