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Schedule 2

(Section 11)

MATTERS TO BE DEALT WITH BY PHYSICAL PLANS

PART 1
ROADS

1. Reservation of land for roads and establishment of public rights of way including public rights of way to and over beaches.

2. Closing or diversion of existing roads and public and private rights of way.

3. Construction of new roads and alteration of existing roads.

4. The line, width, level, construction, access to and egress from and the general dimensions and character of roads, whether new or existing.

5. Providing for and generally regulating the construction or execution of works incidental to the making or improvement of any road, including the construction of bridges, culverts, gullies, open drains, fencing, barriers, shelters, the provision of artificial lighting, and seats and the planting and protecting of grass, trees and shrubs on or adjoining such road.

PART 2
BUILDING AND OTHER STRUCTURES

1. Regulating and controlling, either generally or in particular areas all or any of the following matters:

(a) the size and height of building and fences;

(b) building lines, coverage and the space around buildings;

(d) the purposes for and the manner in which buildings may be used or occupied including in the case of dwelling houses, the letting thereof in separate tenements;

(e) the prohibition of building or other operations on any land, or regulating such operations.

2. Regulating and controlling the design, colour and materials of buildings and fences.

3. Allocating any particular land, or all land in any particular area, for buildings of a specified class or classes or prohibiting or restricting either permanently or temporarily, the making of any building or any particular class or classes of buildings on any specified land.

4. Limiting the number of buildings or the number of buildings of a specified class which may be constructed, erected or installed, on, in or under any area.

PART 3
COMMUNITY PLANNING

1. Providing for the control of land by zoning or designating specific uses.

2. Regulating the layout of housing areas including density, spacing, grouping and orientation of houses in relation to roads, open spaces and other buildings.

3. Determining the provision and siting of community facilities including shops, schools, churches, meeting halls, play centres and recreation grounds in relation to the number and siting of houses.

PART 4
AMENITIES

1. Allocation of lands as open spaces whether public or private.

2. Allocation of land for burial grounds and crematoria.

3. Allocation of lands—

(a) for communal parks;

(b) for game and bird sanctuaries;

(d) for national parks and environmental protected areas.

4. Preservation of buildings, caves, sites and objects of artistic, architectural, archaeological, historical, or cultural interest.

5. Preservation or protection of forests, woods, trees, shrubs, plants and flowers, river courses and gullies.

6. Protection of the coastal zone, zoning of marine parks, special resource and special use areas.

7. Prohibiting, restricting or controlling, either generally or in particular places, the exhibition, whether on the ground, or any building or any temporary erection, whether on land or in water, or in the air, of all or any particular forms of advertisement or other public notices.

8. Preventing, remedying or removing injury to amenities arising from the ruinous or neglected condition of any building or fence, or by the objectionable or neglected condition of any land attached to a building or fence or abutting on a road or situate in a residential area.

9. Prohibiting, regulating and controlling the deposit or disposal of waste materials and refuse, the disposal of sewage and the pollution of rivers, lakes, ponds, gullies beaches and the seashore.

PART 5
PUBLIC SERVICES

Facilitating the establishment, extension or improvement of works by statutory or other undertakers in relation to power, lighting, water supply, telecommunications, sewerage, drainage, sewage disposal, refuse disposal or other public services.

PART 6
TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS

1. Facilitating the establishment, extension or improvement of systems of transport whether by land, water or air.

2. Allocating sites for use in relation to transport, and the reservation of land for that purpose.

3. Providing for the establishment, extension or improvement of telegraphic, telephonic, wireless or radar communication, the allocating of sites for use in relation to such communication, and the reservation of land for that purpose.

PART 7
MISCELLANEOUS

1. Providing for and regulating the making of agreements for the purpose of a development plan by the Minister with a local authority or with owners and other persons, and by a local authority with such persons and by such persons with one another.

2. Sub-division of land and in particular, but without restricting the generality of the foregoing—

(a) regulating the type of development to be carried out and the size and form of plots;

(b) requiring the allocation of land for any of the public services referred to in Part 5 or for any other purposes referred to in this Schedule for which land may be allocated;

(c) prescribing the character and type of public services or other works which shall be undertaken and completed by any applicant for permission to sub-divide as a condition of the grant of such permission;