The Importance Of Land Development

The Ministry of Housing and Local Government (MHLG) is the main agency for any kind of development proposal. Those most important and crucial laws to be complied when undertaking development project is to include:-

1. National Land Code (NLC) 1965 (NLC, 2008)
2. Town and Country Planning Act, 1976 (Act 172)
3. Government Act 1976 (Act 171)
4. Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 (Act 133).

Previously, everything is done separately which includes the practice to process the development proposal; land matters, planning permission, building plan and earthwork plan. This method is time-consuming, inefficient and slowing the process. Thus, government had taken new alternatives to enhance this procedure by ensuring the development processes

Its main purpose is to ensure that Malaysia stays globally competitive in the property and real estate sectors (MHLG, 2008). It is an independent body that acts as a facilitator for the planning process for submission of plans at the local authority.

With the implementation of the OSC, the consultants have the option to submit all five (5) drawings, namely the layout plan, building plan, road and drainage plan, earthwork plan and landscape plan simultaneously (DTCP, 2007; MHLG, 2008).

A very important tool used to manage land development is planning control, referred to in Part IV of the Town and Country Planning Act (TCPA), 1976 and planning guidelines. In Section 19, the TCPA states that

“no person, other than the local authorities, shall, commence, undertake, or carry out any development unless planning permission in respect of the development has been granted to him under Section 22 (treatment of application or extended under Subsection 24 (3)”

In implementing the process, different departments are responsible for each application. The flow chart below shows the processes carried out by the related departments according to their own

Department of Environment (JAS)
7. Department of Sewerage Services
8. Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Malaysia
9. Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (SYABAS)

For application of Planning Permission, the process and procedure shall be as follows:

1. Receive application letter from the One Stop Centre Secretariat and open file;
2. Check application fee;
3. Check documents as in the detail checklist
4. Refer to Development Plans and Planning Guidelines;
5. Check content of Development Proposal Report prepared according to the Development Proposal Report prepared according to the Development Proposal Report Manual JPBD, Peninsular Malaysia
6. In Section 21(6);
“If the proposed development is located in an area in respect of which no local plan exists for the time being, then, upon receipt of an application for planning permission, or, where directions have been given under subsection (3), upon compliance with the directions, the local planning authority shall, by notice in writing served on the owners of the neighbouring lands inform them of their right to object to the application and to state their grounds of objection within twenty-one days of the date of service of the