The Authority may require the corner of any buildings including bound-ary walls or fences to be erected at the corner of two streets to be rounded off or splayed, unless otherwise directed by the Authority, with the tangent length from the point of intersection to the curve being half the road width across the direction of the tangent.

(1)

Street Lines and Building Lines sanctioned by the Local Authority under a resolution adopted by the Council at a general meeting will be considered as those street lines and building lines applicable within the administrative limits of the Local Authority.

(2)

(i).When there is a necessity to determine any new street lines or building lines or open up new streets or roads in areas where there are no sanctioned street lines or building lines, a detailed planning study shall be carried out before any action is taken to propose new street lines or building lines or opening up of new roads or streets

(ii) Such proposals should be tabled and obtain approval at the Planning Committee and a General Meeting of a Local Authority.

(3) No building shall extend beyond the building line, provided that balconies,sunshades or eaves, not exceeding 1.0 meter in width may be permitted between the building line, and the street line, and a fence or boundary wall not exceeding two metres in height may be permitted on the street line.

(4) Any street line approved or sanctioned by the local authority shall not be varied without the prior approval of the Authority

(5)The Authority may take into consideration the full width of the street line as the physical width of the road where the access road to the development site is demarcated with an approved street line, if the owner donates the land within the street line by deed to the Local Authority or the Road Development Authority as the case may be, but without any expense being incurred by either of the authorities.

Every plan submitted along with the application for the purpose of obtaining a development permit to carry out development activities, shall comply with the requirements in Schedule III on Parking Requirements.

(1)

The minimum extent, number of floors and road widths, the minimum width of plots and open space around the building except front of the plot for different class of buildings, should be in conformity with the specification set out in Form "C" below unless the Authority has stipulated a higher or lower minimum extent and/or higher or lower width of lots in a Development plan already approved for the area or proposed for the area.

(2)

Every lot or site which abuts on to the end of dead end street may have a frontage less than the width in Form "C" above, but have a frontage which is not less than 3.0 metres wide perpendicular to the line of the street.

(3)

The Authority may relax the requirements of the specified site extent and width, in the case of an existing lot provided, that a building satisfying the other regulations .

(4)

The maximum height of a building on an existing lot which is six metres or less in width and or has less than one hundred and fifty square metres in extent shall not exceed seven and half metres in height or two floor unless the Authority direct otherwise.

(1)

The Authority is responsible for the preparation and issue of Development Guide Plan (DGP), which is statements, objectives and vision for a particular area identified in the development plan of the Local Authority area.

(2)

It will cover planning and design policies and guideline on land use, transport, environmental improvement, pedestrian and open space system, building height, intensity of development, conservation and redevelopment of local areas, conservation of historic areas, advertisement control and tree preservation etc.

(3)

Until such time the DGP is prepared, the Authority may, in the interest of harmonising the development activities with the surrounding development, direct the person. to make such modifications as it deems necessary to keep to the requirements of this regulation.

(4)

As each DGP is completed it will be gazetted as the plan for local areas. When all D.G.P.s are completed the whole of the Local Authority Area will be covered by the new Development Plan. This Development Plan will provide a clear guide to landowners on what their land could be used for. It also identifies where special and detailed controls are applicable.

(5)

Each DGP should identify the architecturally, environmentally, aesthetically and archaeologically valuable areas and buildings and it should be listed so that no demolitions, changes, alterations or additions should be done without the prior approval of the Authority.

All buildings shall be separated from any overhead electric supply lines by a distance of atleast 1.5 metres in case of low tension lines and not less than 4.5 metres in case of high tension lines. However, clearance from the Electricity Board or the Authority responsible for the supply and distribution of electricity should be obtained in case of a proposed building in proximity to high tension lines.