Lake County, Florida

Demolition and clearing
in Lake County.

House teardowns, land clearing and concrete work across Lake County. We are a licensed Florida building contractor, so the permit file is ours to run, not yours to chase.

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Brightview Construction Group, LLC · Florida certified residential contractor CRC 1334100

Demolition and site work in Lake County

We work the unincorporated county and the cities inside it: Clermont, Leesburg, Eustis, Mount Dora, Tavares.

What we take down

House teardowns and everything else on the lot. Clean concrete and block get separated from the mixed debris, which holds the disposal cost down, and the lot is backfilled and graded before we leave.

Full house teardown, slab or crawlspace
Garages, sheds and outbuildings
Mobile and manufactured homes
Driveways, slabs and foundations
Pools, demo or engineered fill
Lot clearing, tree felling and haul-off

House demolition Driveway replacement Land clearing

Demolition permits in Lake County

Permitting is where residential demolition actually stalls, and every city inside the county runs its own building department with its own forms and its own clock. Here is where each one submits. We pull these ourselves on jobs where we are the contractor of record.

Jurisdiction	Department	Where it submits	Published turnaround	NOC threshold
Lake County (unincorporated)	Lake County Office of Building Services	OPRS (Online Plan Review System)	Not published	Not published
City of Clermont	City of Clermont Building Services Division (Development…	eTRAKiT	Not published	Not published
City of Eustis	City of Eustis Building Department (Development Services)	GovWell Permit Portal	Plan review 5-14 business days (Getting a Permit page); Building page lists 10-14 business…	$5,000 general; $7,500 HVAC (as stated by city; statute now $15,000 HVAC)
City of Leesburg	City of Leesburg Building Department (Building Services)	Leesburg Online Services (OPRS) building permit portal	Not published	Not published
City of Mount Dora	Building and Fire Prevention Construction Services	Email or counter submittal	Not published	Not published
City of Tavares	City of Tavares Building Division (Community Development)	Click2GovBP (payments only; applications submitted by email to permits@tavares.org)	Not published	$2,500 (as stated on city fence checklist; likely outdated vs statute $5,000)

Checked against official county and city pages on 2026-10-13. Fees and turnaround change without notice, so confirm with the building department before relying on any line of this. We publish it because nobody else does, not as a substitute for the county.

Historic review in Lake County

A structure inside a historic district or overlay cannot be permitted for demolition on the building permit alone. It goes to a review board first, and that board meets on its own calendar. This is the most common reason a teardown slips a month.

City of Leesburg. Reviewed by the Historic Preservation Board (with Planning Division). Downtown historic district (voter-approved 2003, ~105 acres, 300+ parcels centered on Main Street). Board applies design standards to demolition, alteration, relocation or removal in the district; e.g., HP case HP-25-725 partial demolition (Nov 2025 agenda).…
City of Eustis. Reviewed by the Historic Preservation (Certificate of Appropriateness, Sec. 46-228; administrative COA available). Locally designated Downtown Historic District (est. 1999) and local landmarks. Permit applications ask whether project is in a Historic District. Demolition-specific review standards and added time not verified.
City of Mount Dora. Reviewed by the Historic Preservation Board. City site cites historic preservation regulations for downtown and publishes HPB agendas; HPB hears demolition items (e.g., June 2026 agenda shed demolition at a historic property). Added review time not verified; expect board hearing before demolition permit…

What is required on nearly every job

Notice of commencement, recorded, not just signed
Owner authorization to permit, notarized
Survey or site plan marking the structure
Asbestos survey and the FDEP notice, at least 10 working days before demolition
Utility disconnect letters for electric, gas and water or sewer
Septic abandonment through the Health Department where the lot is on septic

Permitting, asbestos abatement, septic and well abandonment and tree mitigation are quoted separately or handled by others. That is printed on every proposal rather than turning up later as a change order.

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Send the address and a few photos and you will get a written scope back with the price and the exclusions on it. If the date is the problem, say so up front. That is usually the part we can fix.

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