The State Government may from time to time prescribe in the interest of public safety, by notification; such other conditions as may be necessary for the fire protection, fire prevention and fire fighting in relation to any case of buildings and the ULB shall comply with such conditions.
Rat-proofing. -
(1) Every building or part thereof, designed or intended for use for dwelling, storage or sale of good stuff, shall conform to the requirements specified in sub-rule (2) and (3).
(2) Every such building, unless supported on posts, shall have continuous foundation walls, extending from at least 60(sixty) centimeters below ground level, or shall have continuous floor of masonry or reinforced or other equal rat-proof material or materials as approved by the ULB.
(3) All openings in such foundations or floors, windows and drains and all junctions between foundation walls and building walls shall be effectively rat-proofed, that is, windows and doors shall be tight-fitting, other openings shall be securely covered with rat-proof screening or shall be tightly closed with metal sheeting, concrete or other equal rat-proof materials as may be approved by the Competent Authority of the ULB.
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PART-Ill Means of access, Ground Coverage, Permissible Height.
Rules for means of access. -
(1) (a) Every plot shall abut a means of access which may be a public street or private street or passage.
(b) The relationship between the width of the means of access and the maximum permissible height of building shall be as indicated in these rules.
(2) The minimum width of means of access in respect of a new building shall be as follows: -
(i) In the case of a residential building, with other occupancies, if any, on less than 10% of the total covered area of building, the width of such street or passage shall not be less than 1.80 metres at any part;
(ii) In case of a building other than residential purpose having occupancy on 10% or more of the total covered area of the building, the width of such street or passage shall not be less than 8.00 metres at any part.
(3) Any building which is fully or partly put to assembly occupancy for the purpose of theatre, motion picture house, city hall, skating ring, auditorium, exhibition hall or for similar other purposes shall not be allowed on a plot located within 50 metres of junction of two streets, the width of each of which is 10.00 metres or more.
Ground coverage in respect of building_.-
(1) The maximum permissible ground coverage for building, when a plot contains a single building, shall depend on the plot size and the use of the building as given in the table below:
TABLE Maximum Permissible Ground Coveraqe (Plot containing a single building) Plot size and type of building Maximum permissible ground coverage
(a) Plot size up to 200 sq. metres
(1) Residential 70%
(ii) Other than Residential 50%
(b) Plot size above 200 sq. metres Buildings of all types of uses 60% When a plot contains more than one building the maximum permissible ground coverage building shall be as stipulated in rule 51.
Permissible height of building_.-
(1) Height of a building shall be the vertical distance measured from the average level of the centerline of the adjoining street or passage on which the plot abuts, to the highest point of the building, whether with flat roof or sloped roof.
(2) (a) The following appurtenant structures shall not be included in the height of the building : -
(i) stair cover not exceeding 2.40 metres in height;
(ii) lift machine room as per the latest edition of the National Building Code;
(iii) roof tanks with their supports, the height shall not exceeding 1.80 metre;
(iv) chimneys;
(v) parapet walls not exceeding 1.50 metres in height;
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(vi) ventilating, air conditioning and other services equipments;
(vii) height above mid-point between caves level and ridge level.
(b) The aggregate area of the structures mentioned in clause (a) shall not exceed one-third of the area of the roof upon which these are erected.
(3) The maximum permissible height of buildings on a plot shall be as given in the table below:
TABLE Width of means of access Maximum permissible height ( in metres) (in metres)
(a) Road width between 1.80 and 2.40 Upto 08.00
(b) Road width above 2.4 and upto 5.00 Upto 10.00
(0) above 5. 00 and upto 8.00 Upto 12.50
(d) above 8. 00 and upto 15.00 Upto 14.50
(e) above 15. 00 Tall buildings (i.e above 14.5 mt.)
Explanation: - This table shall be read with rule 45. For height of buildings exceeding
14. 50 meters, rule 50 shall be referred. But buildings above 14.5 mts. in height permission shall be obtained from the State Government with the services of the Technical Appraisal Committee (TAC) as indicated in rule 50.
(4) For any building to be erected or re-erected or added to in the vicinity of aerodrome, or which may affect the functioning of any microwave system for telecommunication purposes, the height of such building shall be governed by such rules or directions as may be made or issued in this behalf by Central Government or any other concerned authority.
(5) The ULB may, if necessary, restrict the height of buildings in any area within the ULB, below that provided under sub-rule(3) for reasons to be recorded in writing.
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