Hyderabad: In order to protect property owners from unscrupulous architects, the state government has decided to provide ready-made building plans on approved layouts. This will help property owners acquire building permissions online.
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will provide the building plan suitable to the plot size. The owners can choose from different model sketches each offering a unique shape and size. The idea is to protect owners from middlemen.
It has come to the notice of the government that licensed technical persons — architects — have been not submitting plans as per norms, which was leading to a rejection and resubmission of applications, a GHMC source said.
Because of this, property owners have not only been making the rounds of licensed technical persons to get the right building plan but also paying them whopping amounts multiple times.
A senior GHMC official told this newspaper that during Phase-I, the urban local bodies will provide ready-made building plans only for approved layouts. If the property owners select any of them, it will make for speedy disposal of online building permissions as they are drafted by town planning experts.
This would also save the time and money of property owners. “Most plots in a layout will usually be in a maximum in four to five sizes, and many have similar plinth area and set back requirements,” the officer said. The urban local bodies will provide about five plans which will suit different plot size, he said.
The GHMC official said that the method of providing pre-approved ready-made plans had been implemented in the Indore Municipal Corporation and had yielded good results. The urban local bodies in Telangana state will adopt a similar method for approved layouts during Phase I.
It will later be extended to unapproved layouts and plots of land which are in the land regularisation scheme (LRS) during Phase-II the official said. This move has been taken in order to prevent fake documents, license of the licensed architects and structural engineers.
