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Redding permits: Building Department. Utility: Eversource.
Redding at a glance
- Electric utility: Eversource. Keep a clearance of four feet wide, three feet deep and six feet high around the meter. Eversource owns the meter and the service drop. The customer owns the weatherhead, the meter box and the main panel past that drop. Call Eversource at 800-286-2000 with questions. [1] Utility step →
Electrical permits in Redding
- Office: Building Department, 10 Lonetown Road, Redding, CT 06875 [2, 3]
- How to file: All building permits use the town's electronic permit application portal.
- Fee: One- and two-family homes: $35 for the first $1,000 and $11 for each $1,000 after, plus the $0.26 per $1,000 state education fee. Each certificate of occupancy is $25 (effective November 1, 2019). The Building Department page still links this November 1, 2019 PDF (checked October 6, 2026).
- Inspections: Inspections must be requested by phone. The portal does not take inspection requests.
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Request a free estimate →- Redding: Eversource electric equipment ownership and meter clearances — https://reddingct.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/electric-equipment-ownership.pdf — no date on page
- Redding Building Department — https://reddingct.gov/government/services/building-department/ — no date on page
- Redding fee schedule effective November 1, 2019 — https://reddingct.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Fee-Schedule-Effective-11-1-2019.pdf — page dated 2019-11-01