Tamil Nadu Government Gazette No. 10, Part II, Section 2

What the Gazette contains

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette No. 10, Part II, Section 2 is an official collection of notifications and orders affecting sections of the public. It includes notices from the Commercial Taxes and Registration Department, Higher Education Department, Home Department, Housing and Urban Development Department, and Labour and Employment Department.

For property buyers and owners, the main relevant items are a site-specific planning exemption in Chennai and recorded variations to approved master plans in Erode and Thanjavur.

Nungambakkam prayer hall exemption

The Housing and Urban Development Department issued G.O. Ms. No. 34 dated 4 March 2009 under the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, 1971. The Governor of Tamil Nadu exempted a prayer hall at R.S. No. 126/1, Door No. 9B, Thirumurthy Nagar Main Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai, from sub-rule (b) of Rule 17 of the Development Control Rules of the First Master Plan for the Chennai Metropolitan Area.

Key points are:

• The exemption applies only to the identified prayer hall property.
• It is subject to the applicant obtaining No Objection Certificates from the Chennai Regional Advisory Committee and the Airport Authority of India.
• The certificates must be furnished before planning permission is issued.
• The proposed construction is Ground Floor plus two floors for parking purposes.

The exemption does not state that planning permission has already been granted. It removes one identified planning rule requirement, subject to the stated certificates.

Erode and Thanjavur planning areas

The Housing and Urban Development Department portion of the Gazette records variations to the approved master plans for the Erode Local Planning Area and the Thanjavur Local Planning Area. The supplied text does not set out the land parcels, survey numbers, revised uses, or detailed terms of those variations.

A buyer or professional dealing with land in either planning area would need the detailed variation notification to determine whether a particular property is affected.

Other notifications

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette No. 10 also contains a value added tax notification variation, a nomination to the Planning Board of Alagappa University, republication of Fire Service Medal awards, and referrals of disputes between workers and managements to Labour Courts. These items do not create a general change to property development controls in Tamil Nadu.