House map approval in Andhra Pradesh

Online, on the DTCP's Online Building Permission System, APDPMS (portal.apdpms.ap.gov.in; the old apdpms.ap.gov.in address now leads there). A technical person licensed with your municipal body or development authority files it for you. The file goes to the commissioner of your municipal corporation, municipality or nagar panchayat. In a village inside an urban development authority's area, the panchayat secretary passes houses on plots of up to 300 sq m and 10 m, and in other villages the gram panchayat decides under its own rules.

Yes, in a town, under the Self Certification Scheme 2025, if the house is not a high-rise and the plot is up to 4,000 sq m and lies in an approved layout, a layout regularised under the 2008 or 2020 layout regularisation schemes, a village site or gramakantam, or an area with an approved circulation pattern. Your licensed technical person uploads the plan and documents with a proforma that you both sign, the portal checks it, and the permit issues as soon as you pay. Within 7 days of casting the plinth beam, the technical person uploads a report with geo-tagged photos showing the setbacks. It is not available in CRZ areas, unauthorised layouts or the villages of the Amaravati capital city area.

You still apply, but since 26 June 2025 a ground or ground + 1 house on a plot of up to 50 sq m (60 sq yd) pays no fees or charges. You submit the application and drawing online with a token of ₹1, and the house needs no completion or occupancy certificate. A bigger plot may not be split to qualify, and the rule does not cover government, prohibited or disputed land. On a plot under 50 sq m the house may rise to 7 m and keeps a 1 m front setback.

A licensed technical person registered with your municipal body or development authority: an architect registered with the Council of Architecture, an engineer, a supervisor or a town planner. A supervisor, such as a civil engineering diploma holder with two years' experience, may sign plans only for plots of up to 300 sq m and buildings up to a stilt floor plus 10 m. For the structural design, an architect may sign on plots up to 500 sq m and up to 3 storeys or 13 m, an engineer up to 500 sq m and 5 storeys or 18 m, and a structural engineer anything larger. A technical person whose self-certified plan is revoked loses the licence on the portal for five years.

The rules cap the height by plot size, not counting a stilt parking floor: 7 m on a plot under 50 sq m, 10 m from 50 to 300 sq m, and 7 m or 12 m from 300 to 500 sq m, with a bigger front setback for the taller option. In old built-up areas, congested areas and village sites, a plot on a road narrower than 9 m may rise only to 10 m, and only if you give up the land needed to widen the road as the approved road network requires; a 9 m road allows up to 15 m and a 12 m road up to 18 m. Since December 2025 a building counts as a high-rise only from 24 m.

Yes. Since 11 January 2025 the panchayat secretary of a village inside an urban development authority's area passes houses on plots of up to 300 sq m and up to 10 m high; bigger sites can be self-certified with the development authority. In a village covered by a master plan or town planning scheme but no development authority, the gram panchayat passes houses up to 10 m on plots up to 300 sq m, and anything bigger needs the DTCP's technical approval. Elsewhere, under the 2002 rules, the panchayat must decide on a house within 15 days, or you may build after telling it in writing; the permission lasts two years.

A self-certified permit issues as soon as the fees are paid. Otherwise the authority should decide within 30 days; if it does not, you can write to it, and if no reply comes within 15 days the plan is treated as sanctioned, as long as it follows the rules. You must start within 18 months, and a permit for a building that is not a high-rise lasts 3 years; a part-built house can be revalidated once for a year, and since July 2026 a late renewal costs extra. For the occupancy certificate, town planning staff must inspect within 10 days, or the portal issues it automatically.

The Andhra Pradesh Building Rules 2017 make building without permission, or against it, punishable with up to three years in jail or a fine of up to 10% of the registration value of the land or building, and never less than half that. In development authority areas the Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban Development Authorities Act 2016 sets the fine at 20% of the land's value, plus up to 1% a day. The authority can stop the work, have the police remove workers, seal the building and demolish it at your cost after a show-cause notice, or regularise a house that meets every rule for all the fees plus a 33% penalty. The one-time Building Penalisation Scheme 2025 covered only buildings put up before 31 August 2025.