The Haryana government has approved a policy to bring uniformity in minimum area requirements for all categories of licences or permissions in the municipal limits and the policy has been implemented with immediate effect.
The spokesman of town and country planning department said the minimum area norms covered all the major categories of colonies namely residential, including both plotted and group housing, commercial and industrial.
He said that the department undertook grant of licences under Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975. The grant of these licences would be guided by rules and policies.
While referring to the areas within original municipal limits, he said that in view of the land constraint in such areas, the area requirements had been kept on the lower side. While plotted colonies, residential or industrial, would be permitted over an area of 4,000 square metres and above, residential group housing would be permitted over 2,000 square metres and above and the commercial colonies would require minimum 1,000 square metres of area. In case of controlled areas, including those areas where municipal limits had been extended subsequent to the declaration of the controlled area, he said that the norms already formulated and adopted by the department of town and country planning in this respect would be followed.
