Brandon is not a city. It is an unincorporated part of Hillsborough County, so there is no Brandon code office or building department; the county does both jobs. County code enforcement covers only unincorporated Hillsborough, and its cases are prosecuted before the county’s Code Enforcement Board, which meets monthly, usually on the third or fourth Friday at 9 a.m., at the Brandon Regional Service Center. The county lets anyone search code violation cases online and request a code enforcement lien settlement.
For permits, the county’s HillsGovHub portal holds records for cases created on or after January 19, 2021; its search defaults to the last two years, so the start date has to be set back to see everything. Documents from 2004 to early 2021 sit in a separate county document repository. For a house built in the 1980s, the permit for a pool, screen room or garage conversion may be in the older archive or may never have existed, and the title company checks both.