11.1 Permit Required
11.1.1 No person shall carry out any development, erect, re-erect or make alterations or demolish any building or cause the same to be done without first obtaining a separate permit for each such development/building from the Authority. No permit shall, however, be required for works referred to in 12.1.2.1 and 12.4.1.
PART 2 ADMINISTRATION
11.1.2 The development/building permit shall take into cognizance the provisions under the relevant Town Planning Act/Development Act/Municipal Act/any other applicable statutes for layout, building plans, water supply, sewerage, drainage, electrification, etc, as provided in the said Act/statute. Also, if so directed by the Authority, the permit shall take care of the need for landscape development plan in the layout and building plans.
11.1.3 Specific approvals shall be obtained from Airports Authority of India, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Fire Services Department, Pollution Control Board, designated authorities under Factories Act/Cinema Regulation Act, Urban Arts Commission, designated Coastal Regulation Zone Authority, Archaeological Survey of India, Heritage Committee and any such other authority as may be applicable. Approval of Fire Services Department shall be required for buildings of height 15 m or above and for such other buildings/special buildings referred to in Part 4 ‘Fire and Life Safety’ of the Code.
11.1.4 Integrated Approval Process
11.1.4.1 In order to facilitate ease of doing business and ensure efficient and expeditious clearance from above bodies with the concept of single window clearance approach and thereby final approval by the Authority within the stipulated time frame, the Authority may constitute a Development/Building Permit Approval Committee consisting of representatives of the team of building officials, representatives of all bodies/organizations from whom clearance for development/building permit clearance is required.
Recommendations from such Committee shall be summarily utilized by the team of building officials in sanctioning process. The Committee may meet once in 15/30 days depending upon the work load. The first response/invalid notice/non-compliance intimation shall be issued by the Authority to the owner within 30 days of submission of the plans to the Authority (see also 12.10.2).
11.1.4.2 It would be more appropriate that all the above authorities may make the information available in public domain delineating clearly the situations requiring their clearance. This information being available to the Authority as well, should be utilized by the Authority in deciding on the required sanction or otherwise without the need to go to the above multiple authorities. This can be achieved by providing, for necessary reference of the Authority, simplified environmental guidelines by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; colour coded zoning maps for Airports depicting restrictions imposed near airports, by Airports Authority of India;
information on categorization of monuments with concerned degree of restrictions, by National Monuments Authority; etc.
The above could be further facilitated, if such requirements in respect of clearances from all such authorities be integrated in the Development Control Rules of the Master/Development Plan of the concerned city/town. The areas unaffected by any of the restrictions should be clearly marked out and mapped, preferably on a GIS platform. Area zones of differential control regulations (within the city) by any of these authorities may also be mapped accordingly so as to result in a composite map of the city/town with various control regulations by different authorities, clearly marked on the map. The sites which are located outside the restricted/regulated areas would not require availing clearance from the respective authorities.
Such integrated approval by the Authority shall be accorded within the time limit of 30 days (see also 12.10.2).
11.1.5 The Authority shall permit a registered architect/engineer to approve the building proposals including plans, and certify completion of building for issue of related regulatory building permits and occupancy certificate for residential buildings designed by self or otherwise, on plot size up to . The responsibility of compliance with respect to provisions of Code shall rest with the registered architect/engineer. However, the plans shall be required to be submitted to the Authority for information and records.
11.2 Pre-Code Development/Building Permit
If any development/building, permit for which had been issued before the commencement of the Code, is not wholly completed within a period of three years from the date of such permit, the said permission shall be deemed to have lapsed and fresh permit shall be necessary to proceed further with the work in accordance with the provisions of the Code.