Procedure of Approval of Layout

Layout Approval

The city of Chennai and its outskirt area are under the jurisdiction of CMDA, formerly MMDA. Remaining parts of Tamil Nadu are covered by DTCP, which has its regional offices at various parts of the state.

The layout within the territorial jurisdiction of regional offices [when the total area of layout is less than 10 acres in rural and 5 acres in urban locations] are dealt by these regional offices of DTCP. The larger layouts are dealt by head office of DTCP at Chennai.

Procedure for approval

The application for approval of layout is received by the local body. Local body means corporation, municipality, town panchayat, panchayat union, etc.

The local body shall scrutinize the application and forwarded to DTCP with its recommendations for technical approval and planning permission.

The DTCP may technically approve, modify or reject the layout and send the same to the local body, which shall accord its final approval. Thus the applicant shall get the layout approved by and from local body.

Duties of Local Body

The local body, before forwarding to DTCP, shall scrutinize the application on the following aspects:

·        Ownership of land by verifying all the relevant documents.

·        Compliance with master plan and development plan

·        Process of acquisition by government

·        No effect by land reforms act 1961, urban land ceiling act 1978 or land acquisition act.

·        Objections on the basis of water logging, drainage, health, surrounding, quarries, burial grounds, cemetery, etc.

·        Approach from and to neighbouring layout.

On receipt of layout proposal sanctioned technically by DTCP, the LB shall ask the applicant to hand over the open spaces, roads and public purpose lands [park]. When the promoter of layout handed over the same, the council of local body shall grant final approval to the layout. Now-a-days, sometimes, the local body accords its approval without getting any advice from DTCP.

The local body shall intimate sub registrar office that it has no objection for registration of documents selling the plots of the said layout. The street and other public purpose reservations shall be taken over and maintained by local body.