Important Pages for Administration of Panchayat

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Layouts and building Rules of Grampanchayats in Telugu states

G.O.Ms.No.67 dated:26/02/2002
along with amendments in G.O.Ms.No.274 dated:12/06/2007
Entered at the rules which are ammended
NOTIFICATION

In Exercise of powers conferred by sub section (1) read with clause (xvii) of sub section (2) of section 268 of the Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Andhra Pradesh Act , 13 of 1994) and in suppression of Andhra Pradesh Gram Panchayat Building Rules, 1972 issued in G.O. Ms. No.377, Panchayat Raj (S.II) Department, dated. 12.10.1973 and as amended from time to time and the rules, regulations and orders relating thereto, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh hereby makes the following rules relating to the regulations or restrictions of the use of sites and for buildings.

1. Short Title, Commencement and Applicability:

  1. These rules may be called the Andhra Pradesh Gram Panchayat Land Development (Layout and Building) Rules, 2002.
  2. They shall come into force from the date of notification.
  3. These rules extend to all Gram Panchayat Areas of Andhra Pradesh except the areas falling in
    1. Urban Development Authority areas and Special Development Authority area as notified by the Government under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Urban Areas (Development) Act, 1975;
    2. Draft/Sanctioned General Town Planning Scheme/ Master Plan areas of Municipal Corporations/ Municipalities notified under the provisions of Andhra Pradesh Town Planning Act, 1920.
    3. Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) Layout areas and other Notified Industrial Areas.
    4. Any area notified accordingly by the Government from time to time.
  4. The rules issued by the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department of the Government are deemed to be applicable for the areas mentioned in sub-rule (3) above.
  5. These rules, shall apply in such areas concurrently only to the extent of,
    1. Levy of fees under sub-rules (3) and (4) of rule 5.
    2. Inspections, Monitoring and taking action on unauthorized developments and building permissions
    3. Any other item for which no specific rules/orders are issued by the Government.

2. Definitions: In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall apply. Words and expressions used but not defined in these rule shall have the meaning assigned to them in the National Building Code of India or standard dictionary meaning if not defined in the code:

  1. “Act” means the Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (AP Act 13 of 1994);
  2. “Balcony” means a horizontal cantilevered projection, including a handrail or balustrade, to serve as passage or as sitting out place;
  3. “Barn” means a building or structure with a roof of Zinc sheets or tiles having flue pipes, furnace and tiers used for flue curing of tobacco leaves;
  4. “Basement or Cellar” means the lower storey of a building or Complex which is below or partly below the ground and to be used only for parking of vehicles;
  5. “Betterment Charge” means a charge levied by the Technical approving authority for ensuring off site services and amenities to the area;
  6. “Building” means any structure for whatsoever purpose and whatsoever materials constructed and every part thereof whether used for human habitation or not, it includes foundation, plinth, walls, floors, roofs, chimneys, plumbing and building services, fixed platforms, verandah, balcony, cornice or projection, part of a building or anything affixed thereto or an wall enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space, and signs and outdoor display structures. Tents, pandals, shamianah /tarpaulin shelters shall not be considered as buildings;

    AMMENDMENT: (6-a) Building, Detached: A building detached on all sides.
  7. “Building Line” means the line up to which a building abutting a street or road or extension of a street or future street may be allowed to be constructed. Building line is synonymous with the front setback and may be specified by the executive authority, Collector, the technical Town Planning unit or the roads and buildings department or any other department that are responsible for ensuring the right-of-way of the street or road or highway that a plot abuts;
  8. “Chajja” means a sloping or horizontal structure overhang usually provided over openings on external walls for providing protection from sun and rain;
  9. “Chowk or Courtyard” means a fully or partially enclosed space permanently open to sky within a building at ground level and serves as lighting and ventilating space besides for outdoor activities, etc;
  10. “Collector” means the collector of the district and his office and officials;
  11. “Conservancy lane” means a lane intended to be used mainly for scavenging purposes and not for providing primary access to any road, street, dwelling, house, hut or building;
  12. “ Corridor” means a common passage or circulation space including a common entrance hall in building;
  13. “Cottage Industry” or “Customary Home Occupation” means a home occupation customarily carried out by a member of the family residing in the premises without employing hired labour, without display of goods, and which shall be non-hazardous and not affecting the safety of the inhabitants of the building and the neighborhood, provided that no mechanical equipment is used except that as is customarily used for purely domestic or household purposes and / or employing licensable goods. If power is used, the total electricity load shall not exceed (10) H.P.;
  14. “ Development” means the carrying out of building, Engineering, Mining or other operations in or over, or under land or water, or the making of any material change, in any building or land, or in the use of any building or land and includes redevelopment and layout and sub-division of any land; and “to develop” shall be construed accordingly;
  15. “ Development Charge” means a charge levied by the Technical approving Authority under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Town Planning Act , 1920 and its amendments;
  16. “Drain” means a system or a line of pipes, with their fittings and accessories such as manholes, inspection chambers, traps gullies, floor traps and used for drainage of building or yards appurtenant to the buildings within the same cartilage. It includes an open channel for conveying surface water or a system for the removal of any liquid;
  17. “Dwelling” means a house designed or intended to be used wholly or partially for human habitation together with such out-house, latrine, cattle shed, store room or other extensions or erections as are ordinarily used or intended to be used therein;
  18. “Executive Authority “ means the executive authority of the gram Panchayat which sanctions and releases the permissions and undertakes to ensure that the construction activity/ layout development activity is carried out in accordance with the sanctioned plans, etc.;
    AMMENDMENT: (18-a) Floor Area Ratio (FAR) : The quotient of the ratio of the combined covered area (Plinth Area) of all floors, excepting areas specifically exempted under these regulations, to the total area of plot, viz.,:- FAR= Total Floor Area of all floors / Plot area.
    AMMENDMENT: (18-b) Gated Community Development: Means an exclusive Housing Development in an area with compound wall, access control through gates and having their own facilities and amenities. The housing units may comprise of Apartment Blocks, Detached or Row Houses with or without its combinations.
    AMMENDMENT: (18-c) Group Housing: Means a building proposed with one or more floors having Five and more dwelling units having common service facilities where land is owned jointly or undivided share.
  19. “Height of Building” means the vertical distance measured from the average level of the ground around and contiguous to the building to the topmost point of the building in the case of flat roofs; and in the case of sloping roofs up to the midpoint between the eaves level and the ridge. Parapet wall and architectural features for purpose of elevation features are excluded for the purpose of taking heights of buildings;
  20. “High Rise Building” means a building of height more than 15 metres. Water Tanks, Lift rooms/ staircase rooms up to one floor height are excluded from this definition;
    AMMENDMENT: (20) Multi – Storied or High Rise Building: Includes a building whose height is more than 15.0 Mts in respect of commercial building and buildings of height more than or 18.00 Mts (With Stilt Floor for Parking) in respect of all other buildings, from the surface level of the land contiguous to such building and other building as per fire services act 1999.
  21. “Low Cost Housing” means housing development and schemes for socially and economically weaker/backward sections of the society at affordable costs of built-up area and services. The requirements and construction specifications are as instructed by the Government from time to time. It include low cost housing undertaken by public agencies, cooperative societies, government or semi government bodies and also private developers with express permission of the Collector;
  22. “Layout” means the laying out a parcel of land or land into building plots with laying of roads/ streets with formation, leveling, metalling or black topping or paving of the roads and footpaths etc. and laying of the services such as water supply, drainage, street lighting, open spaces, avenue plantation, etc.;
  23. “Means of Access” means an access to a building or plot from an existing public street or road through a road/street/pathway;
  24. “Open Space” means an area forming an integral part of the plot, left open to sky;
  25. “Owner” means a person, group of persons, a Company, Trust, Registered Body, State or Central Government and its attached subordinate departments, public or private Undertakings or Corporations and the like, who has title for the property or in whose name the property stands registered in the revenue records;
  26. “Plot” means a continuous portion of land held in a single or joint ownership other than the land used, allotted, earmarked, or set apart for any street, lane, passage, pathway, conservancy lane or for any other public purpose;
  27. “Plot Coverage” means the ground area covered by the building and does not include the area covered by compound wall, gate, cantilever porch, Chajja, well, septic tank, open platform and the like. It is expressed as percentage of the site/plot area;
  28. “Reconstruction of a Building” means and includes,
    1. The re-erection wholly or partly of the building after more than one half of its actual content has been pulled down or burnt down at one time or different times;
    2. The conversion of a building into a factory, shop, office, warehouse, school or institution, one or more dwelling house, or a place of worship;
    AMMENDMENT: (28-A) Row Housing: A row of houses having only front, rear and interior open spaces.
  29. “Setback” shall mean the space to be left fully open to sky from the edge of the building to the property line or boundary of the street. No built-up space shall be provided within setback except specifically permitted projections and other structures under those rules;
  30. “Unsafe Building” means those buildings which are structurally unsafe, insanitary or not provided with adequate means of egress or which constitute a fire hazard or are otherwise dangerous to human life of which in relation to existing use constitute a hazard to safety or health or public welfare, by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation or abandonment;
  31. “Village Settlement” or “Grama Khantam” or Agraharam / Abadi” means all lands that have been included as Agraharam/Abadi by the Government/ Collector within the site of village and includes existing village hamlets;
Contd.

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