SPECIAL RULES FOR HIGH RISE

BUILDINGS

TEAM MEMBERS

Judy Shalom R Sowndarya Moushumi R Sandhya N

2018701014. 2018701565. 2018701554
Special rules for High Rise Buildings

● High Rise buildings are permissible except in areas specifically declared as

prohibited area for construction of High Rise Buildings in the Master Plan or
Detailed Development Plan or as may be declared by the local body in other areas
with the approval of the Directorate of Town and Country Planning or Government
from time to time.
2.Road width:-

The site shall either abut on a road not less than 18 metres in width or gain
access from public road not less than 18 metres in width through a part of the
site which can be treated as an exclusive passage of not less than 18 metres in
width.

Provided further that High Rise building may be permitted with limitations on
maximum FSI of the building on a site abutting or gaining access from a public
road of min. 12 m or 15 m in width, or gain access from public road not less than
12 m or 15 m in width through an exclusive passage of not less than 12 m or 15 m
in width.
● The qualifying road width for permitting High Rise buildings with more than 18.30m
shall be available atleast for a prescribed length of 500m in the case of Chennai
Metropolitan Area and other Municipal Corporations

● In the event of the road width being less than the qualifying width in certain portions
then the total length of such portions shall not be more than 10% of the prescribed
length.

● In the event of the sub-division for qualifying road not being incorporated in the Field
Measurement Book sketch, in such cases road width certificate shall be obtained from
the concerned Executive Authority.

● In the event of more than one block with varying height in a site, the setback of each
block shall be regulated in accordance with the height of the building.

● FSI benefit shall be permitted for the land left for OSR, link road or street alignment

● FSI benefit shall not be permitted for the land left for road widening
Setback shall be kept open to sky and free from any erection or projection such as sunshade
or balcony of any building other than a fence or compound wall provided that these open
yards may be used for the provision of access ways to the building’s parking facilities.

A watchman or caretaker booth or Kiosk not exceeding 2.5m.x 2.5m. in size at each gate and
not exceeding 3m in height and open transformer yard shall be permitted in the set back
space after leaving 7 metres clear set back from the main structure.

Gate pillars without or with arches with a min. headroom clearance of 5.50m atleast to a
width of 3.5m. shall be permitted in the set back space after leaving 7 metres clear set back
from the main structure.

Parking and Parking facilities.— For the use of the occupants and of persons visiting the
premises for the purposes of profession, trade, business, recreation or any other activity
parking spaces and parking facilities shall be provided within the site to the satisfaction of the
competent authority..
Vehicular access within the site.— Internal vehicular access way including passage if any
within the site shall have a clear width of 7.2m. and such vehicular access way shall be available
for every building block in the site. Further, it shall be a clear width open to sky and no
projection in structure over it is permissible.

Basement Floor

● The height of basement floor shall not exceed 1.2 metres above ground level and the
headroom shall be minimum 2.4 metres.

● In cases where more than one basement is proposed for parking and incidental uses,
sufficient provision for lighting and ventilation and also for protection from fire to the
satisfaction of Directorate of Fire and Rescue Services shall be made.

● During the construction of the basement floor, it shall be the sole responsibility of the
Building Permit holder to ensure that the building or structure in the adjoining sites are
not weakened or damaged.
Every High Rise Building erected shall be provided with
(i) lifts as prescribed in National Building Code of India, 2016;
(ii) a stand-by electric generator of adequate capacity for running lift and water pump, and
a room to accommodate the generator
(iii)an electrical room
(iv)at least one metre room of size 2.4 metres by 2.4 metres for every 10 consumers or 3
floor whichever is less.
The metre room shall be provided in the ground floor.
Fire safety, detection and extinguishing systems
(i) All building in their design and construction shall be such as to contribute to and ensure
individually and collectively and the safety of life from fire, smoke, fumes and also panic
arising from these or similar other causes.
(ii) In building of such size, arrangement or occupancy that a fire may not itself provide
adequate warning to occupants, automatic fire detecting and alarming facilities shall be
provided where necessary to warn occupants or the existence of fires, so that they may
escape, or to facilitate the orderly conduct of fire exit drills.
(iii) Fire protecting and extinguishing system shall conform to accepted standards and shall
be installed in accordance with good practice as recommended in the National Building
Code of India, 2016 and to the satisfaction of the Director of Fire and Rescue Services by
obtaining a no objection certificate from him.
Security Deposits - The applicant not being a Government department or agency shall
deposit a sum at the rate of 50% of the infrastructure and amenity charges in force per square
metres of floor area as a refundable non-interest earning security and earnest deposit. The
deposit shall be refunded on completion of development as per the approved plan as
certified by the competent authority, if not, it would be forfeited.

Rain water harvesting provisions as prescribed in rule 63 shall be provided.

Solar energy capture provisions as prescribed in rule 44 shall be provided where

applicable.

Special regulations for physically disabled as prescribed in rule 43 shall be adhered to.
Display Board

(i) The details of the development for which planning permission is issued,
shall be displayed in the site in the format prescribed of these regulations.

(ii) The applicant not being a Government department or agency shall pay a
sum of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand only) as earnest money
noninterest bearing refundable deposit and same should be utilized for the
purpose of installing the prescribed size board on the site by local body, in
the event of the applicant not fulfilling the conditions stated in clause above.

If the applicant fulfills the conditions above, the deposit shall be refunded
after production of the completion certificate.
Sewage system
In areas where sewage system provided by the Local body concerned is not available and

(a) Where number of dwelling units exceeds 50 nos. or 2500 sq.m. of commercial area sewage
treatment plant shall be provided and maintained for the disposal of the sewage within the site
itself as per the designs approved by such other Technical agencies as Government may
empaneled from time to time.

(b) where number of dwelling units is less than 50 nos. or 2500 sq.m. of commercial area,
septic tank with up-flow filters shall be provided and maintained for the disposal of the sewage
within the site itself .

● In residential or predominantly residential developments with dwelling units

exceeding 100 in number, the design should include waste management
infrastructure and one closed non polluting storage provision for solid waste
storage within the premises preferably with direct access from the abutting road
shall be provided.
● In the interest of the public for better circulation in the area and also to ensure that the
proposed development does not block access to the properties around, in cases of large
developments where link roads have to be provided for connectivity to the adjoining
lands areas, through the site applied for development, the competent authority reserves
the right to insist the applicant to set apart such road spaces within the site and the
applicant shall hand over the same free of cost through a registered gift deed to the
Local body for declaring it as public road. In such cases set back from these roads to the
buildings proposed shall be provided as prescribed in these rules.

● The space set apart and notified for formation of a new road or road widening or
street alignment shall be transferred to the Local Body through a registered Gift
Deed before actual issuance of planning permission. In such cases 'Transfer of
Development Rights' (TDR) provisions of rule 48 are applicable.
● In cases of Hospital Buildings with Ground Floor/Stilt Floor + First Floor and above
and floor area exceeding 300 sq.m. in each floor, the special provisions for Hospital
Buildings prescribed in Annexure – IX shall be adhered to.

● Affordable Housing.— Development for affordable housing projects with size of

dwelling unit not exceeding 40 sq.m within Chennai Metropolitan Area and dwelling
unit with size not exceeding 60 sq.m in the rest of state shall be regulated according
to provisions stipulated above.

● Premium FSI charges shall not be collected for the excess FSI area over and above
normally permissible FSI area for affordable housing projects.