Do I need a permit for screen enclosure or pool cage in Rockledge?

Florida and local notes for Rockledge

Site-specific engineered wind-load drawings are effectively required for a new enclosure. Setbacks, easements, and HOA rules still apply. Re-screening mesh only is generally exempt; structural work is not. Brevard County's own permitting office is the Brevard County Building Permits office, reachable on 321-633-2187 at https://www.brevardfl.gov/PlanningAndDevelopment/BuildingPermits/BrevardCountyBuildingPermits. Its online permit portal is https://aca-prod.accela.com/brevard/Default.aspx. It issues permits for the unincorporated county. If your city does not run its own building department, this is the office that will handle the job. Brevard County publishes its wind speed requirements as a set of maps, one per Risk Category, that you search by street address. Most houses are Risk Category 2. Screen enclosures are explicitly Risk Category 1, which is a lower design requirement than the house they attach to. Be aware the county's own map instructions still tell you to install Microsoft Silverlight, which no current browser supports, so in practice you may need to call the Building Department on 321-633-2187 to get the design wind speed for your address. Rockledge permits pool screen enclosures and composite aluminum covered porches through the city Building Division and requires two sets of wet-sealed engineered drawings. Where the enclosure serves as a pool barrier, Rockledge Land Development Regulations section 59.73 requires a barrier at least 48 inches high with self-closing, self-latching gates, and bars changes that reduce an existing enclosure's effectiveness as a safety barrier.