The Hindu : Front Page : Plots in unapproved layouts to be regularised

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Tuesday, Jan 31, 2006

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Plots in unapproved layouts to be regularised

Special Correspondent

Plot owners within Corporation limits will be required to pay Rs.20 per square metre

TIRUCHI: Owners of residential plots in about 100 unapproved layouts in the city are likely to benefit from the one-time regularisation scheme announced by the State Government recently.

Tiruchi Corporation officials said plot owners in unapproved layouts could submit applications along with the registration and other relevant documents. They civic body had details of such layouts and a few applications had been received. Since a similar initiative, introduced a few years back failed to take off, the latest effort is expected to fulfil the needs of many residents.

Residents who had purchased plots in unapproved layouts prior to 1980 would be exempted from paying the `open space reserve' charges though they are liable to pay one-time development charges. Plots purchased prior to 1980, in effect, would be treated as approved layouts.

For layouts created after January 1,1980, the plots could be regularised if the layouts were abutting a main road/ an approved layout road or with at least a 16-ft wide road. The plots should not be located in coastal regulatory zone or in areas near airport where air traffic regulations are in force.

Owners of plots in unapproved layouts within the Tiruchi Corporation limits would be required to pay Rs.20 per square metre as regularisation charges. (The charge would be Rs.10 and Rs. 3 per square metre for plots in municipal and erstwhile town panchayat limits.)

`Open space reserve'

Ten per cent of the layout should be earmarked as `open space reserve.' In case there was no adequate land to do so, plot owners would be required to pay 50 per cent of the cost of the land that is in shortfall.

In case of plots registered prior to September 22, 2000, the cost of the land would be calculated on the basis of the guideline value that had prevailed on the year of registration.

For unregistered plots bought between September 22, 2000 and January 19, 2006, the cost of the land would be calculated on the basis of the guideline value that prevails on the date of registration.

The local body would provide appropriate public amenities after collecting 50 per cent of the development charges for the entire layout.

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