G.O.(Ms).No. 15, Amendment to Tamil Nadu Combined Development and Building Rules, 2019 (14 Jan 2024)

What the amendment does

G.O.(Ms).No. 15 dated 14 January 2024 adds clause (iii) to rule 30(5) of the Tamil Nadu Combined Development and Building Rules, 2019. For properties covered by the new clause, Premium FSI is charged at fifty per cent of the applicable Premium FSI charges.

The Housing and Urban Development [UD4(1)] Department also adds Annexure XXIV, identifying the Transit Oriented Development corridors in the Chennai Metropolitan Area to which the concession applies. The appended notification was ordered to be published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, Extraordinary, dated 14 January 2024.

Properties covered

The Premium FSI concession applies when both of the following conditions are met:

• The property is within five hundred metres, measured from the centre line of a listed corridor.
• The corridor is a Mass Rapid Transit System corridor or suburban rail corridor specified in Annexure XXIV.

The distance is measured from the centre line of the corridor, not from a railway station. The notification lists corridor routes, lengths and numbers of stations.

Listed Mass Rapid Transit System corridors

Annexure XXIV identifies these routes:

• Phase I, Chennai Beach to Velachery, with a length of 19.715 kilometres and 17 stations.
• Phase II Extension, Velachery to St. Thomas Mount, with a length of 5 kilometres and 3 proposed stations.
• The stated total is 24.715 kilometres and 20 stations.

Listed suburban rail corridors

Annexure XXIV also identifies these routes:

• Chennai Beach to Vandalur, 34.6 kilometres and 20 stations.
• Chennai Beach to Minjur, 26.2 kilometres and 15 stations.
• Chennai Central to Thiruninravur, 29.4 kilometres and 17 stations.
• The stated total is 90.2 kilometres and 52 stations.

Relevance to property owners and buyers

Property owners, buyers and development professionals dealing with land near the listed corridors should check whether the property falls within five hundred metres of the corridor centre line. If it does, the notification provides that Premium FSI will be charged at fifty per cent of the otherwise applicable Premium FSI charges.