{"id":55764,"date":"2019-09-30T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T09:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=55764"},"modified":"2019-09-30T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T09:31:12","slug":"rawalpindi-gets-new-building-by-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rawalpindi-gets-new-building-by-laws.html","title":{"rendered":"Rawalpindi gets new building by-laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: New building by-laws have been approved for the city of Rawalpindi by Commissioner Saqib Zafar, Administrator Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC), a news source reported. These laws will be implemented in the city from the coming month, after being notified by the provincial government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lda-calls-meeting-to-finalise-building-by-laws.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LDA calls meeting to finalise building by-laws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new laws were formulated by the RMC elected council in January 2018. RMC Chief Municipal Officer Khawaja Imran Safdar said that these laws were necessary to reorganise the construction in 46 union councils. He added that the older laws did not meet the changing requirements of modern times, and made town planning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/seventy-percent-of-plazas-in-rawalpindi-found-to-be-illegal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">difficult to manage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new laws:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A committee will be formed which will issue no objection certificates (NOC) to buildings so they may get utility connections, and keep a check on violations<\/li>\n<li>Higher building violation fees<\/li>\n<li>A committee of technicians will impose these fines for building violations<\/li>\n<li>25% of the area of commercial plazas will be reserved for parking<\/li>\n<li>Buildings in narrow streets will have to pay a parking violation fee, ranging from PKR 200,000 to 400,000<\/li>\n<li>Commercial buildings can now be eight-storeys tall, instead of the previous stipulation of thee-storeys<\/li>\n<li>All commercial buildings\u2019 plans must include a wheelchair ramp at the entrance, and two fire exits<\/li>\n<li>Obtaining a completion certificate is mandatory for all residential and commercial building owners<\/li>\n<li>Fines will be imposed on commercial buildings for minor violations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/commission-approves-commercial-building-by-laws-islamabad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Commission approves commercial building by-laws for Islamabad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new laws will allow the city authorities to better manage increasing commercialisation and parking issues, as well as prevent growth of illegal structures in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: New building by-laws have been approved for the city of Rawalpindi by Commissioner Saqib Zafar, Administrator Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC), a news source reported. These laws will be implemented in the city from the coming month, after being notified by the provincial government. Read:\u00a0LDA calls meeting to finalise building by-laws The new laws were formulated by the RMC elected council in January 2018. RMC Chief Municipal Officer Khawaja Imran Safdar said that these laws were necessary to reorganise the construction in 46 union councils. He added that the older laws did not meet the changing requirements of modern times, and made town planning difficult to manage. Under the new laws: A committee will be formed which will issue no objection certificates (NOC) to buildings so they may get utility connections, and keep a check on violations Higher building violation fees A committee of technicians will impose these fines for building violations 25% of the area of commercial plazas will be reserved for parking Buildings in narrow streets will have to pay a parking violation fee, ranging from PKR 200,000 to 400,000 Commercial buildings can now be eight-storeys tall, instead of the previous stipulation of thee-storeys All commercial buildings\u2019 plans&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":49827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13218],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-rawalpindi-gets-new-building-by-laws"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rawalpindi gets new building by-laws - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: New building by-laws have been approved for the city of Rawalpindi by Commissioner Saqib Zafar, Administrator Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rawalpindi-gets-new-building-by-laws.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rawalpindi gets new building by-laws - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: New building by-laws have been approved for the city of Rawalpindi by Commissioner Saqib Zafar, Administrator Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rawalpindi-gets-new-building-by-laws.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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