Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has imposed a ban on forming housing plots on water bodies, temple lands and the lands belong to Walkf Board.
The government has also banned the conversion of farm lands into housing plots. Those who wish to convert the unused/disused farm lands into housing plots should get a prior permission from the Director of Agriculture Department.
To this effect, the government has formulated new rules. The newly formulated rules were submitted before the High Court on Friday.
When the petition against converting farm lands into housing plots came up for hearing before the First Bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice M Sundar on Thursday, Advocate General Muthukumaraswamy said that rules have been formulated to regularize registration of unapproved plots.
The new regularization scheme for unapproved plots was a given nod during the State Cabinet meeting Chaired by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday.
As per the new norms, plot owners will have to pay regularization charges, which will go to the government, apart from development charges and scrutiny fee which would be netted by the local body concerned.
Charges on open space reservation will also have to be paid and their revenue will go to the planning authority and the local body concerned.
The government has fixed the registration fee as Rs 100 per square metre in Corporation area, Rs 60 per square metre in municipal area, Rs 350 per square metre in special grade and selection grade panchayats and Rs 300 per square metre in panchayats.
The developers should not disturb and damage if there was any irrigation channel or canal on the plots. The newly formulated housing plots would be regularized if three per cent of the market value, sources said.
In September 2016, the Court had imposed a blanket ban on registering unapproved plots or converting farm lands into housing plots without following norms.
It also held that the registering officials would be personally liable for violation of the order.
However, on March 28 this year, a Bench headed by the then acting Chief Justice Huluvadi. G. Ramesh permitted the resale of unapproved housing plots while modifying the September order.
However, the Bench on April 21 restrained the officials from registering such plots till today saying it was not inclined to permit registration of unapproved plots by authorities.
The government has also banned the conversion of farm lands into housing plots. Those who wish to convert the unused/disused farm lands into housing plots should get a prior permission from the Director of Agriculture Department.
To this effect, the government has formulated new rules. The newly formulated rules were submitted before the High Court on Friday.
When the petition against converting farm lands into housing plots came up for hearing before the First Bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice M Sundar on Thursday, Advocate General Muthukumaraswamy said that rules have been formulated to regularize registration of unapproved plots.
The new regularization scheme for unapproved plots was a given nod during the State Cabinet meeting Chaired by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday.
As per the new norms, plot owners will have to pay regularization charges, which will go to the government, apart from development charges and scrutiny fee which would be netted by the local body concerned.
Charges on open space reservation will also have to be paid and their revenue will go to the planning authority and the local body concerned.
The government has fixed the registration fee as Rs 100 per square metre in Corporation area, Rs 60 per square metre in municipal area, Rs 350 per square metre in special grade and selection grade panchayats and Rs 300 per square metre in panchayats.
The developers should not disturb and damage if there was any irrigation channel or canal on the plots. The newly formulated housing plots would be regularized if three per cent of the market value, sources said.
In September 2016, the Court had imposed a blanket ban on registering unapproved plots or converting farm lands into housing plots without following norms.
It also held that the registering officials would be personally liable for violation of the order.
However, on March 28 this year, a Bench headed by the then acting Chief Justice Huluvadi. G. Ramesh permitted the resale of unapproved housing plots while modifying the September order.
However, the Bench on April 21 restrained the officials from registering such plots till today saying it was not inclined to permit registration of unapproved plots by authorities.