Hyderabad: The GHMC will launch a common building application form next week for applicants seeking building permissions.
It will enable applicants to obtain no-objection certificates online from the revenue, fire services, irrigation, urban land ceiling, and traffic police departments, and from the Airports Authority of India and the National Monuments Authority.
The corporation has drafted the form after taking suggestions from the concerned departments. The fire department has suggested a few changes which will be incorporated before the form is launched on Thursday.
As per the current procedure, an applicant is required to approach the departments individually for permission, which can sometimes take up to months.
As per the upgrade, however, the applicant will have to upload the building plan on the Development Permissions Management System (DPMS) for a G+5 structure.
The civic body will then check if the plan meets the NoC requirements, and forward it to the other departments for simultaneous processing. If the applications are in order, the NoC will be issued in seven working days.
Chief city planner S. Devender Reddy told Deccan Chronicle that the corporation had built a special software for the purpose.
He said that the revenue department will examine whether the ownership data of the land mentioned in the application is correct.
The irrigation department will verify whether or not the land falls in the full tank level of a water body. The land will also be checked to confirm that it meets the urban land ceiling norms.
Mr Reddy said that applications for commercial structures will be forwarded to the fire and traffic police departments.
For a building which is to be constructed on 20,000 square metres of land or more, applications will be forwarded to the PCB for environmental clearance.
“If a building is to be constructed within 200 metres from heritage monuments, then its application will be forwarded to the National Monuments Authority. Application for buildings coming up within 200 metres of an airport would be forwarded to the Airports Authority of India,” he added.
