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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsThe Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) has shot down the Chennai Corporation’s proposal to reduce the minimum area required for construction of a residential house in the city, Corporation sources said.The proposal to reduce the minimum area required for construction of a residential house from 80 square metres (861 square feet) to 50 square metres (538 square feet) was mooted by Chennai Mayor Saidai Duraiswamy, who felt a smaller plot size would benefit the common man and help make housing affordable for weaker sections. However, the CMDA, in its reply, said the plot extent was a basic planning parameter that determined the extent of built-up area and set back spaces and as such, relaxing it would have serious implications on natural ventilation and safety.The CMDA said if the Chennai Corporation faced glitches in issuing planning permission in cases where the plot extent is less than 80 square metre, it could relax the planning parameters only if there were demonstrable hardships, family partition, court cases depending on the genuinity as done by CMDA.Corporation sources said that a survey by CMDA was carried out following the request from the Chennai Corporation in a few blocks of the older parts of the city like Triplicane, Mylapore, Tondiarpet and Purasawalkam. The survey found that even in continuously built-up areas, plot sizes were more than 50 square metre. It indicated that even in old land parcels no further sub-division had taken place.first published:January 01, 1970, 05:30 ISTlast updated:January 01, 1970, 05:30 IST
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The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) has shot down the Chennai Corporation’s proposal to reduce the minimum area required for construction of a residential house in the city, Corporation sources said.

The proposal to reduce the minimum area required for construction of a residential house from 80 square metres (861 square feet) to 50 square metres (538 square feet) was mooted by Chennai Mayor Saidai Duraiswamy, who felt a smaller plot size would benefit the common man and help make housing affordable for weaker sections. However, the CMDA, in its reply, said the plot extent was a basic planning parameter that determined the extent of built-up area and set back spaces and as such, relaxing it would have serious implications on natural ventilation and safety.

The CMDA said if the Chennai Corporation faced glitches in issuing planning permission in cases where the plot extent is less than 80 square metre, it could relax the planning parameters only if there were demonstrable hardships, family partition, court cases depending on the genuinity as done by CMDA.

Corporation sources said that a survey by CMDA was carried out following the request from the Chennai Corporation in a few blocks of the older parts of the city like Triplicane, Mylapore, Tondiarpet and Purasawalkam. The survey found that even in continuously built-up areas, plot sizes were more than 50 square metre. It indicated that even in old land parcels no further sub-division had taken place.