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General |
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Landed dwelling houses encompass detached, semi-detached,
terrace and linked dwelling houses. Apart from landed houses,
other types of residential buildings include apartment buildings,
condominiums, strata-bungalows and cluster housing. Carrying
out renovation works in residential buildings may require submission
of building plans to the Commissioner of Building Control,
Building and Construction Authority (BCA) for approval.
It all depends on what sort of works are to be carried out.
Some building works are exempt from the need to obtain a permit
or an approval of plans from the BCA. A list of the exempted
works is provided in 'The Schedule' of the Building Control
Act. |
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Submission
Of Building Plans |
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The application shall be submitted by a Qualified Person (QP)
- a registered architect or a registered professional civil
or structural engineer (PE). In addition, the plans have to
carry a certification by the PE that he has inspected the building
and investigated its overall structure and that the building
is capable of resisting additional load and moment of the proposed
building works. |
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Application
Form |
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Form
BPD_BP03: Application for approval of building plans (with
appendix on plan fee computation) |
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Other
Accompanying Documents |
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Written Permission (Planning Permission)
issued by the Competent Authority - Urban
Redevelopment Authority (URA) with a copy of the original
site plan approved by the Chief Planner, or a copy of
lodgment receipt issued by URA, or a copy of the approved
electronic submission; |
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Waiver application forms (if any); |
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A set of building plans with the additions and alterations
duly highlighted or coloured; The new roof extension shall
also be highlighted or coloured on the site plan; |
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An extra copy of the site plan; |
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Building plans (BP) clearances from the relevant technical
agencies, which could be any of the following: |
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Plan
Fee For Building Plan Submission |
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$200 for every 100m2 of new area or extended area or
part thereof. |
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$100 for alteration or amendment to each approved storey. |
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$100 per submission for ancillary works not related
to the above. |
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Approval
Of Building Plans |
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The application would be processed and approved within 14
working days. A Notice of Approval will be issued. The set of
approved plans will be microfilmed and returned tot the QP. |
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Commencement
Of Works |
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Works can only commence after the structural plans submitted
by the PE have been approved and a permit to carry out building
works has been applied for and granted. If there are no structural
works involved, then the permit to carry out building works
will be granted based on the approval of the building plans.
The submission of structural plans and building plans is independent
of each other. |
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Completion
Of Works |
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All proposed addition and alteration works should be completed
within 12 months from the date of building plan or structural
plan approval, whichever is later. Quarterly progress reports
are to be submitted to BCA. The QP shall also apply to BCA for
the Certificate of Statutory Completion (CSC) within 15 months,
or within 6 months in the case of retention works, after the
approval of the building plan. Retention works refers to works
that had already been built before the submission of building
plans to regularise it. In such a case, penalty fees are leviable.
Reconstruction works, on the other hand, refers to new works
that takes up an additional 50% of the existing gross floor
area of the building. For this, a Temporary Occupation Permit
(TOP) would be needed for the occupation of the completed building
works if a CSC could not be obtained in time. A CSC would have
to be obtained 12 months from the date of TOP. |
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