IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE C.N.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR & THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE B.P.RAY FRIDAY, THE 14TH JANUARY 2011 / 24TH POUSHA 1932 WA.No. 58 of 2011() ------------------- AGAINST THE JUDGEMENT/ORDER IN WPC.30790/2010 Dated 12/11/2010 .................... APPELLANT/RESPONDENT: -------------- KOLAZHY GRAMAPANCHAYATH, REP. BY ITS SECRETARY, GRAMA PANCHAYATH OFFICE, MULAMKUNNATHKAVU(P.O.), THRISSUR-680 681. BY ADV. SRI.K.N.VINODKUMAR SMT.P.LAKSHMY RESPONDENT/PETITIONER: --------------- INDIRA BALACHANDRAN, T.C.HOUSE, KURUPPAM ROAD, THRISSUR-680 001. BY ADV. SRI.JOHN MANI.V. THIS WRIT APPEAL HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 14/01/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: C.N.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR & BHABANI PRASAD RAY, JJ. .................................................................... Writ Appeal No.58 of 2011 .................................................................... Dated this the 14th day of January, 2011. JUDGMENT Ramachandran Nair, J. Appeal is filed against judgment of the learned Single Judge directing the Panchayat to consider respondent's application for issuing a permit for construction of a house. Counsel appearing for the Panchayat-appellant in the Writ Appeal submitted that when construction is proposed in a large plot of land, a scheme for development has to be submitted first to the Panchayat and thereafter only approval of building permit is possible. We are unable to accept this contention because once respondent has purchased a piece of land, she cannot bring the previous owner for getting the development scheme approved. It is always open to the Panchayat to keep in mind the needs of the area while approving the building plan for a building and impose such conditions or restrictions that the building owner should do for maintaining common facilities like road or drainage and the like. The Panchayat will go by the Rules and if there is any 2 hindrance, point out the same to the respondent for her to rectify and thereafter approve the plan. Writ Appeal is disposed of as above. C.N.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR Judge BHABANI PRASAD RAY Judge pms