GREATER NOIDA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AREA BUILDING REGULATION, 2005

CHAPTER -1

1. Short title, commencement and application.

These regulations may be called the Greater Noida Industrial Development Area Building Regulation, 2005.

They shall come into force with effect from the date of their publication in the Gazette.

Chapter 1 to IV shall apply to the building activity within the urbanisable area and Chapter V shall apply to the area designated for agricultural use by the Authority.

They shall not apply to village abadis (registered in revenue records) or to the areas declared by the Authority for village abadi expansion. The Authority shall decide the specifications/standards to be followed by such building.

Nothing in these regulations shall apply or effect any map already sanctioned or building constructed or under construction as per the sanctioned map and any action taken in accordance with the Greater Noida Industrial Area Building (Amendment) Regulations 2000.

2. Definitions :-In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,--

1. ‘Act’ means Uttar Pradesh Industrial Area Development Act, 1976 (U.P. Act No. 6 of 1976).
2. ‘Agricultural use’ means use of land for the purpose of the agriculture, horticultural, sericulture, animal husbandry, poultry farming, plant nursery, piggery, dairy farming, vegetable farming, any activity related to agriculture or milk chilling plant.
3. ‘Applicant’ means the person who has legal title to a land or building and includes,

1. An agent or trustee who receives the rent on behalf of the owner;
2. An agent or trustee who receives the rent of or is entrusted with or is  concerned with any building devoted to religious or charitable purposes;
3. A receiver, executor or administrator or a manager appointed by any Court of competent jurisdiction to have the charge, or to exercise the rights of the owner; and
4. A mortgagee in possession.

4. ‘Approved’ means approved by the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority.

5. ‘Area’ means the Greater Noida Industrial Development Area.
6. ‘Authorised Officer’ means an officer authorized by the Chief Executive Officer.
7. ‘Atrium’ – A sky lighted central area, often containing plants, in some modern buildings especially for public of commercial nature. 
8. ‘Building’ means any structure for whatsoever purpose and of whatsoever materials constructed and every part thereof whether used as human habitation or not and includes foundation, plinth, walls, floors, roofs, chimneys, plumbing and building services, fixed platforms, verandah, balcony, cornice or projection, part of a building or anything affixed thereto or any wall enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space but does not include illumination board, outdoor display structure, tent, shamiana, tarpaulin shelter or any other structure erected for temporary purpose on ceremonial occasion with the permission of the Authority.
9. ‘Building activity’ means erection, re-erection, making material alteration, or demolition of any building.
10. ‘Building height’ means the vertical distance measured in the case of the flat roofs from the top level of the adjoining drain to the highest point of the building and in the case of sloping roof the mid point between the eaves level and the ridge. Architectural features serving no other functions except that of the decoration shall be excluded for the purpose of taking heights.
11. ‘Building line or envelope’ means a line up to which the plinth of a building may be lawfully extended. It includes lines specifically indicated or to be indicated in any scheme or layout plan or in these regulations.
12. ‘Canopy’ means a projection over any entrance and if provided in setbacks shall be either cantilevered or supported on columns (maximum diameter 30. 0 centimeters in case of circular and maximum 30.0 centimeters X 30.0 centimeters in case of rectangular columns).
13. ‘Chajja’ means a slopping or horizontal structure overhung usually provided for protection from sun and rain or for Architectural considerations.
14. ‘Direction’ means the direction issued by the Authority under Section 8 of the Act, and would include, unless the context otherwise indicates, any executive instructions issued here under.
15. ‘Drain’ means a conduit or channel for the carriage of storm water or other used water.
16. ‘Drainage’ means the removal of any liquid by a system constructed for this purpose.
17. ‘Dwelling Unit’ means an independent housing unit with separate facilities for living, cooking and sanitary requirements.
18. ‘Evergreen tree’ means tree that remains green most part of the year and sheds leaves slowly throughout the year.
19. ‘Existing building or use’ means building structure or its use as sanctioned / approved by the competent authority, existing before the commencement of these regulations.
20. ‘Farm House’ means a plot of land including construction thereon in the area designated for agricultural use by the Authority.
21. ‘Floor’ means the lower surface in the storey on which one normally walks in building.
22. ‘Floor Area Ratio (FAR)’ means the quotient obtained by dividing the total covered area (plinth area) on all floors by the area of plot.
23. ‘Hazardous building’ means a building or part of a building which is used for the storage, handling, manufacturing or processing of highly combustible or explosive materials or products which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity or which may produce poisonous fumes or explosions, or the storage or handling or manufacturing or processing of highly corrosive, toxic or noxious alkalis, acids or other liquids or chemicals producing flame, fumes or explosive, poisonous, irritant or corrosive gases and the storage, handling or processing of any material producing explosive mixtures of dust or which result in the division of matter into the fine particles subject to spontaneous ignition .
24. ‘Hedge’ means number of shrubs or trees (often similar species) planted closely together in the line. A hedge may be pruned to shape or allowed to grow to assume its natural shape.
25. ‘Layout Plan’ means a plan of the entire site showing location of plots  / building blocks, roads, open spaces, entry / exits, parking, landscaping etc. indicating the activity for all land parcels.
26. ‘Licensed Technical Person’ means a draftsman / architect / civil engineer /town planner recognized or licensed by the Authority.
27. ‘Master Plan’ means the Master Plan of the Authority in respect of the area.
28. ‘Mezzanine floor’ means an intermediate floor, between two floors, above ground level, accessible only from the lower floor.
29. ‘Mumty or Stair cover’ means a structure with a covering roof over staircase and its landing built to enclose only the stairs for the purpose of providing protection from weather and not used for human habitation.
30. ‘Occupancy’ means the main purpose for which a building or a part of a building is used or intended to be used and classification of a building according to occupancy shall deem to include subsidiary occupancies which are contingent upon it.
31. ‘Open Space’ means a space forming an integral part of the plot left open to the sky.
32. ‘Owner’ means a person, group of persons, a company, trust, institute, registered body, State or Central Government and its departments, undertakings and like in whose name the property stands registered in the relevant records.
33. ‘Parking space’ means a space enclosed or unenclosed to park vehicles together with a driveway connecting the parking space with a street permitting ingress and egress of the vehicles.
34. ‘Permit’ means a permission or authorization in writing by the Authority to carry out the work regulated by these regulations.
35. ‘Planning and Development Directions’ means Directions issued by the Authority under Section 8 of the Act for defining architectural features, facades of the buildings, maintenance of amenities etc. from time to time.
36. ‘Plinth’ means a portion between the surface of the surrounding ground and surfaced floor immediately above the ground.
37. ‘Plot’ means a piece of land enclosed by definite boundaries.
38. ‘Road / Street Right of Way’ means any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley, stairway, passage way, carriage way, footway square, bridge, whether a thorough –fare or not, place on which the public have a right of passage, access or have passed and had access uninterruptedly for a specified period or whether existing or proposed in any scheme, and includes all bunds, channels, ditches, storm water drains, culverts, side walks, traffic islands, roadside trees and hedges, retaining walls, fences barriers and railings within the street lines.
39. ‘Road / Street Line’ means the line defining the side limits of a street.
40. ‘Road / Street Width’ means distance between boundaries of the road measured at right angles to the course of the road.
41. ‘Setback’ means a line usually parallel to the plot boundaries and laid down in each case by the Authority beyond which nothing can be constructed towards the plot boundaries unless specifically allowed by the Authority.
42. ‘Soft Landscape’ means the components of landscape design that are animate.
43. ‘Table’ means a table annexed to these regulations.
44. ‘Urbanisable Area’ means the area earmarked for any of the following uses in the Development Plan:

1. Residential;
2. Commercial;
3. Industrial;
4. Institutional;
5. Green area;
6. Transportation, and
7. Special uses.

3. The words and expressions used but not defined in these Regulations and defined in the Act, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Act, National Building Code, Indian Standard Institution Code as amended from time to time. In case of any contradiction, the provisions of the Act shall prevail.