Search DTCP and panchayat plan approvals
Search the Tamil Nadu planning permission register by application or approval number, district, village or year. Each permit comes with the sanctioning department, the kind of approval, the issue date, the survey numbers, the fees paid, and the approval letter and approved plan where the register holds them.
Sign in with your phone to run it. You see the price and approve it before anything runs.
- Approval letters and plan documents linked where the register holds them
- Fees paid and the issuing department on every permit
- Filter by kind, department, district, village and year
1 creditper run, charged only when a record comes back
What we need
One thing at a time. Fill it in and press Run.
The answer
From the register, with its date and source.
Nothing run yet. The answer appears here with everything this mini adds:
- Approval letters and plan documents linked where the register holds them
- Fees paid and the issuing department on every permit
- Filter by kind, department, district, village and year
The approval register, briefly
Planning permission is the sanction to put up a building or lay out plots on a piece of land. Outside Chennai it is granted online through DTCP, the town panchayats and the village panchayats.
- Who approves
- 3 departments
DTCP, the town panchayats and the village (rural) panchayats. The answer says which one issued each permit.
- Kinds
- Building plan or layout
A building plan approval is for one building. A layout approval is for dividing land into plots with roads.
- Years held
- 2022 onwards
Permits issued through the online approval system from 2022. Older approvals sit in the local body's own files.
How to check a building plan or layout approval
- 1
Enter a number or a place
The application or approval number from the approval letter, or a district and village.
- 2
Narrow it
Add the year, the kind (building plan or layout) and the department when a village returns many permits.
- 3
Match the survey numbers
Open the permit and check its survey numbers and village against the plot you are buying.
When it helps with land
Is this layout approved?
A seller says the plots are DTCP approved. Search the approval number on the brochure and read the survey numbers on the permit.
Checking a new house
Find the building plan approval for a house built after 2022, with the fees paid and the plan that was sanctioned.
What is being built nearby
Search a village and year to see the permits granted there, split by kind and department.
A permit here shows the plan was sanctioned for the survey numbers on it, not that the seller owns the land or that the building was built to the plan. Match the survey numbers to your plot, and check the owner in the revenue records and the encumbrance certificate.
Questions people ask
How do I check if a layout is DTCP approved?
Search the approval or application number from the layout brochure or approval letter, or the district and village with the kind set to layout. Then check that the survey numbers on the permit are the ones you are buying.
Is my building here?
Permits from 2022 onwards are held. Older permits sit in the local body's own files.
I have only the survey number.
Use the approvals on a survey number mini, which matches permits by survey number. This mini searches by number, place, year and kind.
Can I see the building plan approval fees that were paid?
Yes. Each permit shows the total fees, and when the search finds a single permit it also shows the breakdown of those fees.
Why is my Chennai building not here?
Inside the Chennai Metropolitan Area, buildings are approved by CMDA. Search the CMDA registers or the CMDA file registers instead.
Is it charged when nothing matches?
No.