Abstract:
Development control is a tool in the hands o-f the authority engaged in the profession of planning of the town, in the form of police powers, which along with its various provisions serves to regulate the growth o-f the city along the desired lines.
1.2 PURPOSE OF DEVELOPMENT CONTROL:
Whenever the growth of a settlement takes place
nobody can be sure of the total or ultimate form of urban
development. Development takes place with the passage of time and is affected by social life, technological changes and economic conditions. of the people.
The purpose of development control is to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the community. For this the Government exercise police powers over the citizen's right to property and this police power is in the form of development controls. In the present day context the purpose of development control is
- to give the designer's hand a strength of law.
