Policy for setting up of Boarding House residential sectors

by Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, JAN 4

The Haryana  Government has formulated a policy for setting up of  Guest or Boarding Houses  in residential sectors wherever the zoning regulations of a Development Plan allow  setting up of such facilities in the State.

            While stating this here today, a spokesman of Haryana Town and Country Planning Department said that a clear distinction between the  Guest or Boarding House and Service Apartments needs to be made and necessary safeguards needs to be adopted to ensure that Service Apartments do not come up in the garb of Guest or Boarding Houses.

He said that a  Guest or Boarding House is a house where one can rent a room and receives board (meals), the cost of which is included in the rent, whereas in a Service Apartment, rooms are let out on long term basis, which is a flatted construction. Further Guest or Boarding House shall be rented atleast for 15 days or a month to one person at a time to avoid its misuse as a hotel. The Guest or Boarding House shall be allowed on a Residential Plot of 1000 sq. yards or two Kanals comprising of one single unit or of two plots or lands adjoining each other.

 The maximum permissible area for such Guest or Boarding Houses in a sector shall not exceed 5000 sq. yards which will be on the basis of  “first come first serve”provided the application is complete in all respects. The maximum area for which one applicant can obtain permission for construction of a Guest or Boarding House in a sector shall not exceed 2000 sq. yards. Such facility shall be permitted only in  that residential sector where all internal and external services have been laid.  

            He said that permission for setting up of Guest or Boarding House would also be given to those buildings which were constructed at the site.  As far as un-built or undeveloped or  non-constructed allotted plots in area of HUDA or Licenced area is concerned, permission will also be granted. In such cases, the owners shall produce Allotment Letter and/or Conveyance Deed in respect of unbuilt or un-developed plots in area of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) or or licenced area.  However, in case of un-acquired pockets, the applicant may apply for seeking Change of Land Use (CLU)  permission on prescribed Form CLU-I alongwith scrutiny fee at a rate of Rs. 10 per sqm under the provisions of Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Development Act, 1963 and Rules thereof in the concerned office of District Town Planner.

He said that the site should be located on the sector road with service road where the land for sector road is acquired and the service road is functional. The owner of the building is liable to seek permission from Competent Authority of Department of Town and Country Planning, to run Guest or Boarding House in a developed sector of HUDA  or colonizer allotted residential plot where internal services are laid by HUDA/colonizer.

  The owner shall  be  liable to pay 50 per cent  commercial Conversion Charges prescribed for “upto 150 per cent  FAR”, as per Schedule-IV of Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Development Rules, 1965.  The FAR commensurate with the  residential plot as per provisions of Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Development Rules, 1965  shall be allowed whether the Plot belongs to HUDA or a Colonizer. 

No  External Development charges  shall be levied in case the site is an allotted site of HUDA or is part of licenced colony because HUDA and the Licencee  or colonizer pay External Development Charges (EDC) and include cost of EDC in the cost of plot itself while allotting or selling the same. Levy of Conversion Charges equivalent to 50 per cent of Conversion Charges applicable to commercial use prescribed for upto 150 per cent  FAR is sufficient enough in such cases. However, full EDC shall be levied for un-acquired pockets/self developed land while seeking such permission in addition to Conversion Charges equivalent to 50 per cent  of Conversion Charges applicable to commercial use prescribed for upto 150 per cent  FAR.

He said that parking of the vehicles for residential plot will be done by removing the front boundary wall. In all these  cases, minimum side set back as per zoning plan shall be allowed and height of the building shall be allowed as per provisions in Rule 49 of Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Development Rules, 1965 under the heading “residential”. He said that the owner shall not be allowed to sell or bifurcate the rooms or flats and same shall also not be covered under the Haryana Apartments Ownership Act, 1983. 

While referring to the procedure to obtain permission or conversion for built up plots, he said that the detailed application for seeking permission would be submitted by the owner of building fulfilling the above criterion in the concerned office of District Town Planner in the prescribed format. The date of receipt of application in the concerned office will be the date of the seniority of the application.  After receipt of application, the concerned office will issue diary number and  date duly indicating on receipt to be provided to the applicant or applicant company.

The concerned District Town Planner will sign all the pages of the application alongwith maps and would  certify or intimate the details of application to circle office and Directorate through email on the same date. The concerned District Town Planner will forward the application to concerned Senior Town Planner alongwith his comments. He would also indicate total applications received in residential sector alongwith status of laying of internal and external services and details of email sent by him or her to circle office or Directorate. Thereafter, the application alongwith comments of circle office will be forwarded to the Directorate within 20 working days from the date of receipt of application. The final approval or permission to run Guest or Boarding House will be provided by Directorate within 90 days from the date of receipt of application in the prescribed format, he added.