CHENNAI: Giving a respite to the owners of unapproved plot owners in the city, the Greater Chennai Corporation has started accepting applications to regularise unapproved individual plots. The plots would be regularised under the housing department’s regularisation of unauthorised layouts and plots scheme. According to a press statement by the civic body, the regularisation applications for unapproved individual plots in sub-division or layouts should be submitted to the Works Department at Ripon Buildings with documents, plans and other details.
Although the statement clarified that the applications would only be entertained after registering in the exclusive online portal. The housing department had announced the condoning scheme in October 2017, to regularise unapproved plots and layouts in the state to help the plummeting real estate industry and to obliterate apprehensions of plot owners in the state.
“Plot owners can obtain regularisation of their individual plots lying in the layouts that received in-principle approvals from the CMDA,” the Chennai Corporation official said. The civic body also said that the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) has been approving in-principle layout framework.
“A total of 21 layout frameworks are approved and further 200 layout frameworks are under process and the in-principle approval for the layout frameworks will be issued soon,”the Chennai Corporation said. The details of the scheme shall be viewed on the website www.tnlayoutreg.in and public can register on the portal, the release said.
The officials also added that the plots would be approved only after the layouts receive in-principle layout framework from CMDA. “To get approval, the plot owners should pay penalty and charges, accordingly. Local body officials will inspect the plots before providing approval certificate,” housing department sources said. There would be no levy of OSR charges for the plots registered prior to October 20, 2016, which is the cutoff date for the scheme. The last date for submission of application is May 3, 2018.
‘Sub-registrars need not inspect buildings with plan approval’
Property owners may be able to cut down the waiting time to get their documents as the registration department has ordered sub-registrars to stop inspecting buildings with proper planning permissions and issue documents without site inspections. In an official circular issued on Thursday, the Inspector-General of Registration J. Kumaragurubaran said that sub-registrars should derive the values of duties, according to dimensions mentioned in the approved plan.
According to department sources, sub-registrars would thus far inspect the buildings to measure the dimensions and to fix duties accordingly. “The new arrangement will cut the delay caused by the site inspection process and the owners will get their registered document sooner. However, the buildings without approved plans will be inspected by the sub-registrars,” Kumaragurubaran said.
The circular also directs sub-registrars to register the document without building inspection, if the property owners pay maximum stamp duty and registration fee for documents including settlements between family members.
According to department sources, some sub-registrars have been inadvertently inspecting the buildings and causing the delay in handing over the registered documents. “The new circular had been issued to clarify the concerned officials about the government orders,” a source said. It is to be noted that the departmental government order had been issued in 2010 to give exemption from site inspections to the buildings whose value do not exceed Rs 1 lakh in rural areas and Rs 2 lakh in urban areas.
