Apply for a fire access route

If you’re applying for a building permit you may be required to submit a fire access route application. Fire access routes are needed so emergency vehicles can approach a building unobstructed.

To apply for a fire access route, you’ll need to send us the following:

Drawing guidelines

Your drawing should include the following:

  • Building outline
  • Principal entrances
  • Fire hydrants
  • Fire department connection
  • Fire access route
  • Parking (including parking spaces) which borders the fire route
  • Municipal street access points and the municipal address

Drawings should not be larger than 21 cm in width and 24 cm in height, so they can fit into the template.

Your drawing can be a simplified copy of your previously approved site development plan or a redrawn duplicate. Your drawing doesn’t need to be to a specific scale, but you must keep the relative scale between the different site components.

How to submit your application

By email

  1. Email your completed application form and drawings to fire.prevention@mississauga.ca.
  2. If needed, submit any additional details or documents that staff ask you to submit.
  3. When all the requirements are met, the City will send you an email with the link to the online payment page. You can pay your fee with debit, Visa, Mastercard or Amex.
  4. Once your payment is processed and the fire route permit is ready, you’ll receive it by email unless requested otherwise.

By mail

Submit your completed application form, drawings and cheque made payable to The Corporation of the City of Mississauga to:

Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services
Fire Prevention and Risk Reduction Division
300 City Centre Drive, 2nd floor
Mississauga, Ontario L5B 3C1

Staff will let you know if you need to submit any additional details or documents. When all requirements are met, you’ll receive the fire access route permit by email unless requested otherwise.

Contact us

For more information or questions about fire access routes call 905-896-5908 or email fire.prevention@mississauga.ca.