Development Permission from the Planning and Development Authority
Town & Country Planning (Planning and Development Authorities)
Inside a notified Planning and Development Authority area (for example the Greater Panaji or Margao planning areas), the PDA, not the TCP taluka office, approves building plans and issues a Development Permission under section 44 of the Town and Country Planning Act. The municipal or panchayat construction licence follows it.
Who, how long, where to appeal
Member Secretary of the Planning and Development Authority
Documents
- Application in Appendix-A1-PDA
- Questionnaire in Appendix-B1
- Site plan at 1:500 (1:1000 for plots over 4000 sq m) showing boundaries, access, setbacks, septic tank and wells
- Detailed building plans at 1:100 or 1:50: all floor plans, elevations, sections, roof plan, septic/soak pit drawing
- Location plan with landmarks
- Original survey plan from the Directorate of Land Survey or City Survey Office
- Form I & XIV (or Form III / City Survey record)
- Sale, gift or lease deed proving your right over the land
- Owner's affidavit in Appendix-B4 that the title documents are true
- Architect/Engineer certificate in Appendix-B2 that the plans follow the applicable rules
- Structural Liability Certificate from a Structural Engineer in Appendix-B3
- Conversion Sanad, or the Appendix-A4 application for a conversion recommendation
- Certificate of estimated construction cost (used to calculate the licence fee)
- Five sets of drawings
- Copies authenticated by a Notary or Gazetted Officer
How to apply
- The owner signs the application, questionnaire, plans and structural drawings; a TCP-registered architect or engineer signs the plans within their competence
- Apply first to the Planning and Development Authority for Development Permission (Appendix-A1-PDA), together with the conversion recommendation application (Appendix-A4) if you do not yet hold a Sanad, with at least five sets of drawings and one set of documents
- Then apply to the Municipal Council, Village Panchayat or Corporation for the construction licence (Appendix-A2 or A3), enclosing the Development Permission Order and three sets of PDA-stamped drawings
Legal basis
- Goa Town and Country Planning Act, 1974 — section 44 (development permission)
- The Goa (Regulation of Land Development and Building Construction) Act, 2008, and the Regulations of 2010 made under it