Mauritius building regulations say that
anyone who wants to build on the island has to present a building
permit. It is a document empowering the administration to check if a
construction plan complies with the regulations. To apply for the
building permit, you must complete some forms of the municipality from
where you also can get all the complete information about the Mauritius
building regulations. You also have to add all the documents to the
application.
If you have questions about the building
permit application you can get help from the planning department-the
application section. According to the Mauritius building regulations you
have to present: copy of construction permit or of the lease permit,
copy of your ID card, 3 sets of A4 or A3 plans, at metric scale and made
by professional,
the
site plan with the indications of the landmark distances, at 1:2500 scale, the
site plan with the indications of the subdivision’s dimensions, the building’s
provision with the setbacks from access roads, parking lots provision,
boundaries, septic tanks or other systems for the water drainage as well as all
the existing structures at a 1:200 scale. According to the Mauritius building
regulations you also have to present the CEB permission, CWA or WMA
authorisation, engineer certificate if the building has more than two storeys
span with over 5 metres, the ID card copy and consent copy of your neighbour if
the building is done inside 9 metres of wall, reservation or lease letter and
draft’s preparation contract in case that is the government’s land (you can
receive it from general rate), the application form that you can get from the
Ministry of Territorial Administration, from the Ministry of Investment or from
the Department of Planning.
The Mauritius
building regulations also ask you to present the
site’s area, each floor’s area, the calculation in
detail of the subdivision insurance as well as the
parking lots on the site’s map as it follows: the
principal facades, revealing the building’s height,
at 1:100 or 1:200 scale, the cross-sections,
revealing the building’s height too,
also at 1:100 or 1:200 scale, each floor’s plans
layout, showing very clearly the all rooms proposed function, at 1:100 or 1:200
scale, the basement scheme, the contour map to show the basement’s level. The
structural submitted details include: foundations provision, amounts or
foundations details (strip footing, basement, etc).
And in case that the housing complex you have
involves the construction’s building you have to provide the each floor’s
details, the each floor’s tile or tiles details, the stairs details, the
basement details (if the building will have it), the disposal system or septic
tank details, the existing structure’s structural details copy (if the building
will have it).
To get more information about the Mauritius
building regulations you can contact the Port Louis municipality at:
Hotel
de Ville, Port Louis, phone number: 2302120831/32/33 or fax number: 2302124258,
the municipality of Quatre Bornes at: Town Hall, St. Jean Road, Quatre Bornes,
phone number: 2304548054/56 of fax number: 2304657084.
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