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Section 7: Guidelines for regularization

Regularisation of Unapproved Plots and Layouts Rules, 2017State Rules of Tamil Nadu · 1971

The unapproved individual plot and the unapproved layout seeking regularization should conform to the following, namely :--

(a) The individual plot in a layout or sub-division seeking regularisation should have been sold or transferred in favour of the applicant by a registered sale deed executed before the date of coming into force of these rules.

(b) The unapproved layout seeking regularization shall be a contiguous piece of land.

6(c) Any plot for regularisation shall abut a public street or gain access from a public street through a private street over which the applicant has the right to access.]

(d) The layout applied for regularisation shall gain access from a public road of minimum width of 4.8 metre in case of Corporations and Municipalities and 3.6 metre in case of Town Panchayats and Village Panchayats.

(e)In case of individual plot:

(i) All plots in a layout for which in-principle approval of layout frame work is granted by the Competent Authority specified in rule 2 (2)(ii) under these rules shall be eligible for regularization.

(ii) The individual plot in a sub-division, shall be regularized irrespective of the building violations in the residuary plot.

(iii) The individual plot in a layout shall be regularized only to the extent it tallies with the plot dimensions and abutting road width in the in-principle approved layout framework.

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(iv) The applicant shall to the extent any part of a plot in an inprinciple approved layout framework is required for road widening or providing access to the surrounding areas shall be gifted to the local body through a registered gift deed as required by the Competent Authority.

7(v) The individual plot in a layout or a sub-division that were already sold shall be regularized with full exemption from the Open Space Reservation requirements of Development Regulations or Development Control Regulations.]

(f) 3...........]

4(g) In case of layouts--

(i) If at least one plot has been sold in an unapproved layout, the internal roads of the layout shall be regularized on "as is where is" basis.

(ii) The reservation of land for Open Space Reservation shall be provided by amalgamating or altering the unsold plots to an extent not less than 10% of the total area of unsold plots. However, it would not be essential to provide 10% of the unsold plot area in a layout in one contiguous stretch or in definite dimension. All the roads and Open Space Reservation area in the layout as shown in the layout framework shall be deemed to have been vested with the concerned local authority.

(iii) In layouts where a portion or whole of the layout is formed in agricultural lands in areas other than planning areas, the Competent Authority shall examine whether any common irrigation field channel has been obstructed or encroached or removed due to the formation of layout and also the level of inundation to decide on the in-principle approval of the layout framework.]

(h) 8....]

[8. Effect of regularization.--

(1) Plots under earlier regularization schemes implemented by the Government shall be deemed to be regularized for residential usage irrespective of the land use zone in the development plans concerned. Further, the unapproved layout or sub-divisions formed,--

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(ii) prior to 29.11.1972 in rural areas and prior to 01.01.1980 in urban areas outside the Chennai Metropolitan Area.

shall be deemed to have been approved. The roads and Open Space Reservation area, if any, in such layout shall be deemed to have been vested with the concerned local authority,

(2) All the plots in unauthorised layout/sub-divisions made from--

(a) 05.08.1975 to 20.10.2016 within the Chennai Metropolitan Area ;

(b) 29.11.1972 to 20.10.2016 in rural areas outside the Chennai Metropolitan Area ; and

(c) 01.01.1980 to 20.10.2016 in respect of urban areas outside the Chennai Metropolitan Area, shall be eligible for regularization under this scheme.]

Where this provision sits

ActRegularisation of Unapproved Plots and Layouts Rules, 2017
Section7
Marginal noteGuidelines for regularization
JurisdictionState of Tamil Nadu
StatusIn force as published by the source

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