21/03/2025
2/ Planning Proposals
2.1/ The Town Planning Department was set up in the year 1990, when the Town Planning Ordinance provided legal justifications and procedures in setting up the Town Planning Board. The Board members are members of the society appointed by Government to serve as Board Members. The Planning Department is a Government Department carrying out the ex*****on of the Ordinance and other related matters.
2.2/ The Ordinance gave statutory power to the Town Planning Board to issue the Interim Development Permission Area Plan (IDPA), the Development Area Plan (DPA) and the Outline Zoning Plan.(OZP).
2.3/ Gazette Plans
Interim Dev’t Permission Area Plan ( IDPA)
Dev’t Permission Area Plan ( DPA )
Outline Zoning Plan (OZP )
3/ Land searches.
3.1/ The land searches are managed and maintained by the Land
Registry,
3.2/ The land searches give a recognized title proof of a property.
3.3/ A Current Land Search shows the present owner
of the property;
3.4/ A Full Land Search shows the ownership history of the
Property
3.5/ The public can visit the Land Registry Office to buy the
searches and can also buy on line.
3.6/ The Land Registry entertains the registration of any deed
from solicitors or from Government.
3.7/ There is a team within the Land Registry to confirm a deed
is registrable or not registrable. Before confirming the registration, If not registrable, the deed will return to the solicitor.
4/ Lot index plan
4.1/ The Plan is actually a co-relation of DD and Survey Sheets,
put in 1:1000 scale
4.2/ Permanent Structures are shown by solid lines,
4.3/ Temporary Structures (T/SS) are shown by dotted Lines)
4.4/ Lot boundaries, Lot numbers, Permit boundaries, Permit
Numbers, Government Land Allocations boundaries (GLA). existing uses are indicated. Please note that the descriptions bear no legal rights, the legality of the decriptions are subject to proof.
4.5/ A red colour lot number indicates that a survey had been
carried out by an authorized land surveyor and registered
in Government Survey Office. .
5/ New Grant Register
5.1/ After the compilation of the BCL, Government continued to grant land to the public, the lease conditions of those lots could not be the BCL, they (the lease conditions) were written in a standard format published in Government Gazette.
5.2/ When Government was about to sell land, she published a gazette notice describing the details of the land, and the selling method was by means of auction, They called Village Auction, at that time.
5.3/ The lease conditions of the village auction lots were also published in Gazette notices:
A/ Those lots granted by auction between 1905 to 1924 were having a lease condition published in Gazette Notification No. 365, of 1905, we call it now as GN365 conditions;
B/ Those lots granted by auction between 1924 to 1934 were having a lease condition published in Gazette Notification No. 365 of 1905 as amended by Gazette notification No 570,of 1924, we still call it under GN365 as amended by GN570 conditions.
C/ Those lots granted by auction between 1934 to 1945 were having a lease condition published in Gazette Notification No. 36, of 1934, we call it now as GN364 conditions.
5.4/ To register the lot details in Government, they put the lot details in a Register Book, they named it “New Grant Register” which you can buy from Government.
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