UNIT-5

What is building bye - laws?

• The rules and regulation framed by town planning authorities

covering the requirements of building, ensuring safety of the
public through open spaces, minimum size of rooms and height
and area limitation, are known as building bye-laws
Objective of building bye-laws
• Allows orderly growth and prevent random development.

• Provisions of bye-laws usually afford safety against fire, noise,health hazard and
structure failure.

• Provide proper utilization of space to achieve maximum efficiencyin planning.

• They provide health, safety and comfort to the people who live in the building.

• Due to these bye-laws, each building will have properapproaches, light, air and
ventilation.
Applicability of buildingbye-laws
• New construction
• Additional and alternations to a building
• Changing of occupancy of building (residential educationetc.)
• Development of land isundertaken
• In demolition
Common terms used
Floor area/carpet area : it is defined as the area covered in any building at any floor
level
Plinth area/ built up area : it is defined as the area measured in the outer side at floor
level or basement level
Frontage : it is defined as the horizontal distance between the construction of main
building and the front boundary of the site
Back setback: the horizontal distance between the construction line and backside
boundary line of the site
Side set back: the horizontal distance between the side of the building to the side of
the boundary line
Set back distance
Advantage of set-back

• Better condition of air, light andventilation.

• At corners it improve visibility and safety fromtraffic.

• Space for parking.

• Protection of building from street nuisance likenoise.

• Reduce the danger of fire from neighbour house.

• It provides privacy in building.

Building & control line
• The line up to which the plinth of the building adjoining a street or road or on future
street may lawfully extend is know as buildingline.

• Building such ascinemas, factories, commercial center which attract large number of
vehicle should be set-back distance apart from the building line.

• The line up to which such building can be constructed is knownas control line.
Bye-laws for residential building
• Size of plots
• Area limitation
• Open space
• Height of thebuilding
• Minimum area of rooms
• Projection
• Mezzanine floor
• staircase
1.Size of plots:

TYPE OF PLOT SIZE FRONTAGE

DEVELOPMENT
Detached Building >250 m2 Above 12 m

Semi-detached building 125-250 m2 8-12 m

Row type building 50-125 m2 4.5 to 8 m

2. Area limitation and height
The limitation of the area and height of the buildings of different types
of construction and occupancy is achieved by satisfying floor area ratio

Floor area ratio = total area covered by all floors/plot area

The maximum height of the building shall not exceed 1.5
times the width of the road abutting plus front open space
Minimum Size Of Different Rooms
No. Name of room Minimum Minimum size ofside Height
area
1. Habitable room 9.5 m2 2.4 m Not less then
-bed room 2.75 m from
-living room surface of floor
-study room to lowest point
of ceiling
2. Kitchen 5 m2 1.8 m Not less than
2.75 m
3. Bath rooms and 1.8 m2 If bath and water Not less than 2.1
water closets closet are combined, m
its floor area shall not
less than
2.8 m2 with minimum
width 1.2 m
No. Name of room Minimum area Minimum size Height
of side
4. Store room 3 m2 ----- Not less than 2.2 m
5. Garage m2 Not less than 2.4 m
6. Stair case The minimum Clear head room
width of stair is 1 shall be 2.2 m
m.
Open space

• The open spaces inside and around the building particularly

residential type have to provide to carter for the lighting and
ventilation requirement.
1. Front open space
2. Rear open space
3. Side open space
For building up to maximum height of 7m
Front open space

Width of the street Front open space

fronting the plot (m) minimum(m)
Up to 7.5 1.5
7.5-18 3
18-30 4.5
Above 30 6
Side and rear open spaces
Height of building(m) Side and rear open spaces to
be left around the building
(m)
10 3
15 5
18 6
21 7
24 8
30 10
40 12
50 14
53 and above 16
Projections
• Sunshades over windows or other openings shall not be more than
0.74m wide
• Projected balcony at higher floors of width not more than 0.9m
• No sunshade shall be permitted over the road or over any portion
outside the boundaries of site below 2.8m height from ground level
• Sunshades provided at a height of 2.8m from ground level shall be
permitted to project up to maximum width of 600mm
Mezzanine Floor

• Minimum height of mezzanine floor shall be 2.2m.

• The minimum size of the mezzanine floor, if it is tobe used as a living room
shall not less than 9.5m2

• The aggregate area of such mezzanine floor in a building shall in no case

exceed 1/3 the plinth area of thebuilding.
Tamil nadu municipality bye-laws
Dimensions of room:
• Average height should be 2.75m
• Width is not less than 2.5m
• Bathroom area = 1.8m2
• Water closet area shall be 1m2
• Minimum width of doorways, windows or passage should be 1m
Staircase
• Width shall not be less than 500mm
• The head room should be at least 2.1m
• Riser shall not be more than 175mm
• Tread shall not be less than 250mm
• Landings shall not be more than 3.75m
• Handrails should be placed at a height not less than 750mm
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