Category: CMDA/DTCP

  • Understanding Floor Space Index (FSI) and Premium FSI in Tamil Nadu/Chennai: Regulations, Calculations, and Benefits

    Understanding Floor Space Index (FSI) and Premium FSI in Tamil Nadu/Chennai: Regulations, Calculations, and Benefits

    The Tamil Nadu Government has notified the new Development and Building Rules, in 2019. It is applicable for the whole of Tamil Nadu. Its known as Tamilnadu Combined Development and Building Rules, 2019. Introduction Floor Space Index (FSI) is a crucial factor in regulating construction activities in urban areas, governing the maximum permissible construction area…

  • SETBACK SPACES: UNDERSTANDING THE NORMS FOR BUILDING PLAN APPROVAL IN TAMILNADU

    SETBACK SPACES: UNDERSTANDING THE NORMS FOR BUILDING PLAN APPROVAL IN TAMILNADU

    Revised Setback Rules under Tamilnadu Combined Development and Building Rules In Tamil Nadu, the implementation of the Tamil Nadu Combined Development and Building Rules, 2019 has consolidated various rules that were previously enforced by different authorities. These new rules are applicable throughout the state, except in cantonment areas. Under the new rules, the development regulations…

  • CARPET AREA, PLINTH AREA AND SUPER BUILT-UP AREA

    CARPET AREA, PLINTH AREA AND SUPER BUILT-UP AREA

    How the Saleable Area of an Apartment is Calculated A buyer of an apartment should understand the meanings of these terms: Carpet Area, Plinth Area, and Super Built-Up Area. There may not be any difficulty in understanding the meanings of Carpet  Area and Plinth Area. But it is the concept of Super Built-up area that is…

  • PREMIUM FLOOR SPACE INDEX

    PREMIUM FSI Why Premium FSI? Premium FSI is a tool to encourage vertical growth in a metropolis. In a city like Chennai, where every inch of space counts Premium FSI is expected to ease the pressure on land at least to a small extent by allowing construction of more floor area. CMDA Guidelines  Regulation 36 of…

  • Regularisation of Unapproved Layouts and Plots

    Regularisation of Unapproved Layouts and Plots

    Tamilnadu Government Frames Rules for Regularising Unapproved Layouts and Plots [ditty_news_ticker id=”3299″] [su_box title=”Updates” style=”soft” box_color=”#aca9a9″ radius=”20″]1) Clarification by the Madras High Court 2) Regularisation: Status Update 3) CMDA’s User Manual 4)Regularisation Rules Simplified-Oct 12, 2017[/su_box]                                       …

  • Using Agricultural Land for Non-Agricultural Purposes

    Using Agricultural Land for Non-Agricultural Purposes

    The Tamil Nadu Government Publishes Rules for Using Agricultural Land for Non-Agricultural Purposes  The background During the course of the hearing on the PIL filed by Advocate-Activist Elephant Rajendran seeking Ban on Registration of Unapproved Layouts and Plots, it came to the light of the Court that there were no ‘Provisions of Acts/Rules/Regulations at present prescribing…

  • Ban on Registration of Unapproved Plots and Layouts

    Ban on Registration of Unapproved Plots and Layouts

    The Madras High Court Lifts the Ban with Some Riders! The Background Updates on Regularisation of Unapproved Plots It all started with a PIL by an Activist-Advocate Elephant G Rajendran, which sought to curb indiscriminate conversion of agricultural land into residential plots and the registration of such unapproved plots.The Case was filed in The Madras…

  • அங்கீகரிக்கப்படாத வீட்டுமனைகளை அங்கீகரிக்கும் விதிமுறைகள்

    அங்கீகரிக்கப்படாத வீட்டுமனைகளை அங்கீகரிக்கும் விதிமுறைகள்

    அங்கீகரிக்கப்படாத வீட்டு மனைகளை வரைமுறைபடுத்த என்ன செய்ய வேண்டும்? அங்கீகரிக்கப்படாத விட்டு மனைகளை வரைமுறைப்படுத்துவதற்கான விதிமுறைகளை, தமிழ்நாடு அரசு,மே  4, 2017 தேதியிட்ட அரசாணை மூலம் வெளியிட்டுள்ளது. அத்தோடு, விளை  நிலங்களை வீட்டு மனைகளாக மாற்றுவது குறித்த விதிமுறைகளையும் வெளியிட்டுள்ளது. அங்கீகரிக்கப்படாத விட்டு மனைகளுக்கான விதி முறைகளுக்கான முக்கிய அம்சங்கள் கீழே தரப்பட்டுள்ளன: 1.20.10.2016 க்கு முன் பதிவு செய்யப்பட்ட எல்லா வீட்டு மனைகளுக்கும்  இந்த விதி முறைகள் பொருந்தும் 2.தகுதி உள்ள எல்லா லே அவுட்டுகளுக்கும்…

  • Rules for Regularisation of Unapproved Layouts and Plots

    Rules for Regularisation of Unapproved Layouts and Plots

    The Rules for Regularisation of Unapproved Layouts and Plots, Notified by the G.O.(Ms).No.78 dated 4th May, 2017, is given below for the benefit of Readers: Read UPDATE on Regularisation Issue

  • CMDA Development Regulations of Second Master Plan-2026

    The Complete Development Regulations of Second Master Plan- 2016