How to get building permit in Kerala?
In this article I will explain the procedure to get building permit in corporation, Municipality
and Panjayath. I have also mentioned the documents to be submitted and the time frame to get the approval.
Introduction
Building permit is an important document to start the construction work or any other structure in your land. You must get building permit from secretary of municipality if you are looking to construct a house in your land. As per municipality rules every person who wants to develop or build any structure should apply in writing to secretary in the form Appendix A of building rules. It will take 30 days to getapproval. The Secretary will notify you in writing if any additional document he required within 30 days after your request. The documents that should submit to get permit are as follow. All these Documents should be signed by you and engineer/Architect before submission.
1. Filled application form (Appendix A)
2. Site plan shall be drawn to a scale of 1:400 and shall be fully dimensioned. Site plan should contain following things
The site plan shall include a key plan drawn to a scale of 1:4000that gives all details of the site, adjacent landmarks within a distance of 30 KM of the plot.
3. Service plan in scale 1:400
All the drawing should be prepared in A3 paper (24*33) cm and signed by a registered engineer
4.Building Plan Building plan is an another important document to submit to get residential permit. It should contain street elevation building section of the home that you are going to build. All these drawings shall drawn to a scale 1:100.
5.A Certificate:Attach a certificate from the designer to effect that the work shall be carried out in the supervision of him
6.Fees depending on the area and type of building you are going to construct.Approval of site plan and issue of permit
After inspection, the secretary shall approve the site and site plan. After approving the site plan he will study the building plan elevation and section of the building and specification of the work and approve the plan and issue permit to execute the work. Approval of the plan and building permit shall be intimated to the applicant in writing.Time frame to approve the permit by secretary
The maximum time took by secretary to approve the site plan and building permit is 30 days. If not the applicant can make a request to council and they will approve wihin 30 days. Even council not make any response, consider the permit is given and can start work.Items of work that don't want permit to do work
Following small works are excluded from resdential permit.Qualificaion of Designer.
Now you have doubt who can actually submit the building plan in panjayath or municipality. The role of designer are advise the owner regarding the feasibility of the project at preliminary stage, coordinate the project, agent of owner to supervising the work, make specificaton,scedule and drawing and work as arbitrator in the building project between the owner and the contractor. The qualification and competence of designer are as follow
Supervisor. Qualification of a supervisor is certificate diploma holder in architecture or engineering and 5 year's experience. A supervisor can submit the building permit application connected with the building permit up to 300 sq.m and up to two storeys.
Architect. Qualification of architect is any degree in architect. He can submit all pan and information connected with building permit for one hectare area. He can also workout structural details for building o plots up to 500sq.m and up to three storeys.
Engineer Qualification is civil engineering degree. He can submit as mentioned above for an architect and structural work of any building.
I really appreciate the initiative of the author for giving basic details which leads to obtaining the required permissions from the sanctioning authorities. But normally I feel that the town planning officer of the particular region plays the major role here. He has the list of government properties, lands and also rules and regulations regarding deviations and permissions. But normally he wont reveal to the beneficiary and waits till the building is constructed fully. After that he tries to scuttle the progress of occupying the premises by giving show cause notice for the violations. In that case the owner as no other go but to shell down handsome amount as bribe to the town planning officer and thus this kind of corruption exists in all the states. Is Arvind Kejriwal listening ?