HYDERABAD: The Municipal Corporation for Hyderabad received 1,525 applications seeking permission for construction of buildings in twin cities under its jurisdiction from April 1 till November this year and 857 cases were sanctioned.

In a reply submitted to the Legislative Assembly last week in response to a question posed by Congress leader and Khairatabad MLA P. Janardhan Reddy, the corporation denied having stopped giving building permissions.

MCH Chief City Planner that 465 applications for building permission were rejected and 183 applications were on various stages of processing during the last eight months.

Circle 5 had received the highest number of applications in this period of 306 cases (207 permitted) followed by Circle three with 247 cases (178 permitted) and Circle one with 273 cases (165 permitted).

The least number of applications were received from Circle six with 75 cases (207 permitted).

180 applications

At the head office where permissions for all high rise buildings of more than ground plus three are scrutinised, there were 180 applications with 38 of them getting cleared and 89 cases in various stages of correspondence.

The CCP affirmed that building sanctions will be released and the owner allowed to commence construction only after he "hands over the ground floor area for first floor or the second floor area, as the case may be, or 10 per cent of the total build up area, whichever is less to the sanctioning authority by way of a notarised affidavit and after setbacks and open spaces are demarcated on the site".

Individual buildings on plots up to 300 sq.mts with height up to six meters are, however, exempted from the clause.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail