Planning (Development of Land — Lodgment Authorisation) (Amendment No. 2) Notification 2015

No. S 273

Planning Act

(CHAPTER 232)

Planning (Development of Land — Lodgment
Authorisation) (Amendment No. 2) Notification 2015

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 21(6) of the Planning Act, the Minister for National Development makes the following Notification:

Citation and commencement

1. This Notification may be cited as the Planning (Development of Land — Lodgment Authorisation) (Amendment No. 2) Notification 2015 and comes into operation on 11 May 2015.

Amendment of paragraph 2

2. Paragraph 2 of the Planning (Development of Land — Lodgment Authorisation) Notification (N 3) (referred to in this Notification as the principal Notification) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “landed dwelling‑house”, the following definition:

“ “Landed Housing Areas Plan” means the development control plan depicting the areas used for landed housing issued by the competent authority as part of the Written Statement to the Master Plan and published on the Internet website of the Urban Redevelopment Authority (established under section 3 of the Urban Redevelopment Authority Act (Cap. 340)) at http://www.ura.gov.sg;”; and

(b)

by deleting the full‑stop at the end of the definition of “relevant date” and substituting a semi‑colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:

“ “storey height control” means the maximum number of storeys allowed for a landed dwelling‑house on a plot as specified in the Landed Housing Areas Plan.”.

Amendment of paragraph 4

3. Paragraph 4 of the principal Notification is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub‑paragraph (b) of sub‑paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub‑paragraph:

“(b)	the plot is located within a landed housing area in the Landed Housing Areas Plan;”;

(b)

by deleting sub‑paragraph (f) of sub‑paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub‑paragraphs:

“(f)

earthfill works on the plot, if any, will not cause the level of any point in the plot to be more than one metre above the lower of the following:

(i)	the level of that point in the plot before the operations; or
(ii)	the level of any point at the abutting edge of abutting land;

(fa)

the basement, if any, of the landed dwelling‑house will not, at any point in the plot at which the basement protrudes —

(i)	where the level of that point in the plot after the operations is higher or the same as the level of that point in the plot before the operations, protrude more than one metre above the level of that point in the plot before the operations; or
(ii)	where the level of that point in the plot after the operations is lower than the level of that point in the plot before the operations, protrude more than one metre above the level of that point in the plot after the operations;

(fb)

the operations will result in a landed dwelling‑house that does not have more storeys than the storey height control for the plot;”;

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the words “sub‑paragraphs (e), (f),” in sub‑paragraph (1)(n)(i), “(fa), (fb),”; and

(d)

by inserting, immediately after sub‑paragraph (2), the following sub‑paragraph:

“(3) For the purposes of sub‑paragraph (1)(fb), a mezzanine floor within a landed dwelling‑house is a storey of the landed dwelling‑house.”.

Deletion of Schedule

4. The Schedule to the principal Notification is deleted.

Savings provision

5. This Notification does not apply to any operations that are authorised under paragraph 3 of the principal Notification before 11 May 2015.

[G.N. Nos. S 712/2004; S 492/2005; S 617/2006; S 68/2007; S 195/2007; S 65/2015]

Made on 7 May 2015.

BENNY LIM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.

[ND 265/5-204; AG/LLRD/SL/232/2010/16 Vol. 2]

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