BUILDING CODES & BYE-LAWS

INTRODUCTION

NEED & NATURE OF BYE-LAWS

Provide suitable areas for selected activities

Avoid problem of traffic
Develop town in systematic manner
Provide safety against diseases
Provide well lighted and ventilated houses
Provide safety against diseases
Assure basic services like water supply,
drainage, electricity, gas, telephone lines, etc

BASIC TERMINOLOGY
Amalgamation:-combining two or more
plots as a single plot
Amenities:-means roads open spaces
parks recreational grounds,water
supply,electric supply,sewerage,drainage
Bifurcation:-means bifurcation of a plot
into two

Building line:-means the line up to which the

plinth of a bulding may lawfully extend with in
the plot on the street or an extension of a street
no over head projections are allowed beyond
the building line
Building set back:-minimum distance b/w any
building or any structure from boundry line to
plot
Frontage:-it means the width of the site abutting
the access road

Height of building:-means the vertical distance

measured in the case of flat roofs from the
average level of the ground around&contiguous to
the building up to the heighest point of the
building
High rise building or multi-storeyed building:means a building of a height of 24 meters or more
above the average surrounding ground level

STANDARDS
There shall be
restriction on the
minimum building
plot size along the
abutting roads in
all new
developments
areas and layouts.

Abutting
road
Right-ofway (in
Mts.)

Minimum Max. Plot

plot size
size
allowed
allowed
(in sq. m) (in sq m)

9 and below
12.2

100

2000

12.2 and
below 18

200

No
Restriction

18 and
below 30

500

No
Restriction

30 and
above

1000

No
Restriction

Type/ Use of Building plot permissible

Mini
mum
abut
ting
road
widt
h
requi
red

(in meters)
B) SITES IN NEW AREAS/ APPROVED LAYOUT AREAS
The type of buildings & intensity of development shall be w.r.t.
the abutting road width, viz.,

Non-High Rise Residential Buildings including Apartment

Complexes; Buildings with shopping on GF and residences on
upper floor; Basic level social amenities like Nursery School /
Religious Place / Public Health Center / Dispensary / Diagnostic
Laboratory/ Police outpost/Post Office/ Neighbourhood Library
cum Community Center and all buildings up to 15 m height

9*

MINIMUM SETBACKS AND HEIGHT STIPULATIONS FOR ALL

TYPES OF NON-HIGH RISE BUILDINGS
Building Line or Minimum Front
Setback (in Mts.)
Plot Size (in
Sq. Mts.

Parking
provision

Maximum
Height of
building
permissible
(in Mts.)

Abutting road width

Minimum Setbacks
other sides (in
Mts.)

12.2
18 Mts.
Mts.
& less
30 Mts.
Other
and
Rear side
than 30 & above
sides
below
Mts.
18 Mts.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4a)
(4b)
(4c)
(4d)
(5)
(6)
(B) EXISTING AREAS/ NEW DEVELOPMENT AREAS/LAYOUT AREAS (including Category II *** of Annexure
I)
100 & up to
200
10
3.0
4.5
6.0
9.0
1.5
1.5

Above 200 &

10
3.0
4.5
6.0
9.0
2.0
1.5
upto 300
Above 300 &
Stilt floor
12
3.0
4.5
6.0
9.0
2.5
2.5
up to 400
allowed
Above 400 &
Stilt floor
12
3.0
4.5
6.0
9.0
3
3
upto 500
allowed
Above 500 &
Stilt + Cellar
12
3.0
4.5
6.0
9.0
4
4
upto 750
allowed
Stilt + 2
Above 750 &
Cellars
15
3.0
4.5
6.0
9.0
5
5
upto 1500
allowed
Stilt + 2 or
Above 1500 &
more Cellars
Below 18
3.0
4.5
6.0
9.0
6
6
upto 2500
allowed
Stilt + 2 or
Above 2500
more Cellars
Below 18
3.0
4.5
6.0
9.0
7
7
allowed
Less
than
12.2
Mts.

RESIDENTIAL ENCLAVES:
(a)
These would be allowed as gated development
that are exclusive housing areas with common
compound wall with access control through gates and
having their own facilities and amenities. The housing
units may comprise of row houses, semi-detached,
detached or Apartment blocks or a mix or combination
of the above. The building requirements would be as per
the given type of housing.
(b)
Residential enclaves would be permitted only in
those sites that give through access of minimum 9 m
peripheral road for the neighbouring plots or lands that
are located in the interior. They would be governed by
good design standards and not impinging on the overall
accessibility and circulation network of the area.
(c)
Minimum size of site: 4000 sq m.
(d)
Size of plots and height permissible: as per
type of housing and requirements as given above for the

(e) Minimum Common Open space : 10 %

of site area.
(f)
Building setbacks: As per type of
housing & requirements given above for the
said type of housing and as per Table III.
(g) Internal Road requirements:
9.0 to 18 m for main internal approach roads;
9 m for other internal roads and
8 m for cul-de-sacs roads between 50-100 m
length
9 m for looped roads

NATURE OF BUILDING CODES IN SPECIAL

AREAS
HERITAGE ZONES:-The objective of

these regulations shall be the

conservation of buildings, artifacts,
structures, areas and precincts of historic
and/ or aesthetic and / or architectural and
/ or cultural significance and / or
environmental significance (heritage
buildings and heritage precincts) and / or
natural features of environmental
significance and or sites of scenic beauty.

GENERAL REGULATIONS:
1. These regulations are formulated without prejudice to i.
Ancient Monuments & Sites & Remains Act, 1958 ii. The
Karnataka Ancient & Historical Monuments &
Archeological sites & Remains Act, 1961 iii. Any other law
for the time being in force in the state.
2. The Government shall constitute a Conservation
Committee to advise the HWHAMA in the matters related
to Heritage Conservation of ancient monuments and
natural areas of environmental importance, and advise in
the integrated development of Hampi World Heritage Area.

3. No development, demolition, alteration or repair shall be

carried out without prior permission of the authority.
4. Development activities on the rocks, boulders, hillocks
and rock outcrop shall not be permitted.
5. No Moving, Destroying, Breaking, Quarrying, Painting
and Writing on the boulders shall be permitted.
6. No developments shall be permitted within 45.00 M. of
River front zone.
7. No alienation/ conversion of ecologically sensitive areas
like river islands, tank bed areas, forest areas and river
front areas in the Local Planning Area.

Environmentally sensitive zones

An environmentally sensitive area (ESA) is a type of
designation for an agricultural area which needs special
protection because of its landscape wildlife or historical
value.

Disaster prone regions

Disaster prone regions are areas
which often effected by the
continuous
cyclones, droughts, tsunami
hurricanes etc these bye laws
helps in the design of in such
worst case with some
regulations.

HILLY AREAS
Hilly areas are the residential areas for the tribal people
who used to live on the hills due to un-availability of the
land. but now a days people are laying their
houses by reaching the top of the
hills. In order to prevent this ,
bye laws are regulated by the govt.

COASTAL ZONES
Large scale development of coastal
areas will bring about problems if development is not
properly planned and managed.
Proper coastal management and protection are needed to
preserve quality of coastal environment.

Hard engineering
Refers to the construction of
physical structures to defend
against the erosive power
of waves.
- Also known as the structural approach.
Soft Engineering
- Focuses on planning and management so that both
coastal areas and properties will not be damaged by
erosion.