The authorisation to divide land into plots

Housing estate is an operation with the out come being the division of land property into plots. All sub division with more than four plots is subject to approval by the competent authority, under pain of being declared null and void of the deeds relative to it. Hence the authorisation to divide land into plots.

It is an authorisation given by the Town Council to a private person, an artificial person, public or private or Urban Land Association Initiative (ULAI) to realise sub division on a titled land.

• A stamped application signed by the landlord or his representative or a person with an authorized title to share out the land ; 
• Town planning certificate ; 
• Presentation report with relative informations: 
  • To the occupation density and the reception capacity; 
  • On the type of construction and to leisure equipment; 
  • On the diagram of proposed solutions to the problems of water and electricity supply, wastewater treatment, sewages, wastes evacuation and network to fight against fire; 
  • On existing common transports; 
  • To list of proprietors, tenants and holders of real rights concerned, with the delimitation of their parcels; 
  • To the evaluation predictable financial, economic and social effects; 
  • To an estimation of consequences on the environment; 
  • On urbanistic prescriptions.
• A plan presenting the altimetry1, the planimetry2, plots to be created, road, green spaces, parking areas, sport fields and eventual linking to rail ways and water.
• Annexes: 
  • A situation plan at the scale 1/5000 or 1/10 000 extracted from a planning document if one exists, clearly indicating the position of the land; 
  • A plan of all roads and equipments permitting their reversal to the public domain; 
  • A programme of works indicating the characteristics of different works to be realised and eventually their realisation conditions by section; 
  • Conditions of contract (see annexe 2); 
  • A town planning housing estate regulation in conformity with the regulation of planning document, if it exists, if not to general town planning rules and construction projected by the law; 
  • A programme of collective equipments; 
  • The engagement of the divider to finish the works predicted in the project; 
  • The commitment of the divided to constitute a buyers trade union; 
  • A project of status regulating the buyers trade union..