Section 217:
Lay-out plans.
(1) Before utilising, selling or otherwise dealing with any land under
section 216, the owner thereof shall send to the Chairperson a written application with a layout plan of the
land showing the following particulars, namely:--
(a) the plots into which the land is proposed to be divided for the erection of buildings thereon
and the purpose or purposes for which such buildings are to be used;
(b) the reservation or allotment of any site for any street, open space, park, recreation ground,
school, market or any other public purpose;
(c) the intended level, direction and width of street or streets;
(d) the regular line of street or streets;
(e) the arrangement to be made for levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, channelling, sewering,
draining, conserving and lighting street or streets.
(2) The provisions of this Act and the bye-laws made thereunder as to width of the public streets and
the height of buildings abutting thereon, shall apply in the case of streets referred to in sub-section (1) and
all the particulars referred to in that sub-section shall be subject to the sanction of the Council.
(3) Within sixty days after the receipt of any application under sub-section (1) the Council shall either
accord sanction to the layout plan on such conditions as it may think fit or disallow it or ask for further
information with respect to it.
(4) Such sanction shall be refused--
(a) if the particulars shown in the lay-out plan would conflict with any arrangements which have
been made or which are in the opinion of the Council likely to be made for carrying out any general
scheme of development of New Delhi whether contained in the master plan or a zonal development
plan prepared for New Delhi or not; or
(b) if the said lay-out plan does not conform to the provisions of this Act and bye-laws made
thereunder; or
(c) if any street proposed in the plan is not designed so as to connect at one end with a street
which is already open.
(5) No person shall utilise, sell or otherwise deal with any land or lay-out or make any new street
without or otherwise than in conformity with the orders of the Council and if further information is asked
for, no step shall be taken to utilise, sell or otherwise deal with the land or to lay-out or make the street
until orders have been passed upon receipt of such information:
Provided that the passing of such orders shall not be in any case delayed for more than sixty days
after the Council has received the information which it considers necessary to enable it to deal with the
said application.
(6) The lay-out plan referred to earlier in this section, shall be prepared by an architect.