OSR lands cannot be converted into housing plots by giving retrospective effect to new rules: Madras High Court Justices S.M. Subramaniam and Mohammed Shaffiq hold that any reduction in OSR requirements could be made applicable only prospectively

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OSR lands cannot be converted into housing plots by giving retrospective effect to new rules: Madras High Court
Justices S.M. Subramaniam and Mohammed Shaffiq hold that any reduction in OSR requirements could be made applicable only prospectively
Published – December 01, 2025 09:23 pm IST – CHENNAI

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The ruling was given while dismissing a writ appeal filed in 2020 by a group of plot purchasers challenging a 2019 judgment passed by a single judge in a 2007 writ petition.
The ruling was given while dismissing a writ appeal filed in 2020 by a group of plot purchasers challenging a 2019 judgment passed by a single judge in a 2007 writ petition.

The State government cannot permit conversion of lands allotted for public purposes such as parks, schools, shops, construction of wells and establishment of high tension power lines into housing plots by giving retrospective effect to reduction of Open Space Reserve (OSR) area, the Madras High Court has ruled.