Legislative Assembly Bill No. 23 of 2022, Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022
The Tamil Nadu Government published Legislative Assembly Bill Number 23 of 2022 in Tamil Nadu Gazette Special Issue Number 209A dated 8 April 2022, after its introduction in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, for public information. The Bill proposes to amend the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, 1971 by creating urban development authorities for government-notified urban planning areas and assigning them planning, land use mapping and development functions.
What the document is
Legislative Assembly Bill Number 23 of 2022, published by the Tamil Nadu Government on 8 April 2022, is a proposal to amend the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, 1971. It was published with its statement of objects and reasons after being introduced in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. The source presents a Bill, not a notification declaring that the amendments have become law.
Who may be affected
The Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022 may affect property owners, buyers, developers, businesses and local authorities in an area that the Government identifies as an urban planning area through a notification in the Tamil Nadu Gazette. The text does not identify any particular town, survey number or property as falling within such an area.
Planning documents prepared under the proposed framework could cover land use, new town development and detailed development. These documents may therefore be relevant when examining the planned use or future development of land in a notified urban planning area.
Key proposals
Legislative Assembly Bill Number 23 of 2022 proposes to:
- Define an urban planning area as an urban area notified by the Government in the Tamil Nadu Gazette.
- Allow the Government to establish an urban development authority for an urban planning area by Gazette notification.
- Include government appointees, officials, a Member of the Legislative Assembly, a trade and industry representative, planning officials, the municipal corporation commissioner and local authority representatives in the authority.
- Give the authority corporate status, including power to hold or deal with movable and immovable property, enter contracts, and sue or be sued.
- Require the authority to review the urban planning area and prepare reports.
- Enable preparation of master plans, new town development plans, detailed development plans, land use maps and other necessary maps.
- Allow the authority to carry out planned works or entrust them to a local body or another specified authority.
- Permit delegation of statutory powers to local or other authorities, subject to stated controls and conditions.
- Provide an appeal to the Government for a person affected by specified decisions or orders of a metropolitan development authority.
Commencement and plan approval
The Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022 proposes that its clause 6 should commence immediately, while the remaining provisions would commence on dates notified by the Government. It also provides for Government review of plans submitted by an urban development authority, directions for changes, resubmission, and Government approval before the authority publishes the required report.
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Common questions
Does this Gazette publication place my property in an urban planning area?
The text does not identify any specific property or area. An urban planning area would be identified separately by the Government through a notification in the Tamil Nadu Gazette.
Does the Bill itself create an urban development authority for my town?
No particular town is named in the text. The Bill proposes that the Government may establish an urban development authority for a notified urban planning area through a Gazette notification.
What plans could an urban development authority prepare?
The proposed authority could prepare master plans, new town development plans, detailed development plans, land use maps and other maps needed for development planning.
Can an urban development authority carry out development works directly?
The Bill allows the authority to arrange works contemplated by a development plan. It may also entrust plan implementation work to a local body or another authority specified in its order.
