Dos:
- Uphold provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act.
- Prepare and implement development and land use plans.
- Develop and implement approved physical development policies and guidelines.
- Offer pre-planning advise and assess applications.
- Verify structural designs/details.
- Relay Planning Authority Board decisions.
- Advice clients on development matters.
- Monitor implementation of approved projects.
- Collect planning (processing) fees.
- Investigate and take corrective action on breaches of the TCPA.
Don'ts:
- Prepare application for developers.
- Carry out property surveys and subdivision of land.
- Carry out relocation of boundary beacons.
- Build structures but monitors their implementation.
- Construct or clean drains.
- Reclaim the sea or backfill land/marshes/wetland.
- Sell or purchase land and houses.
- Build roads, accesses, footpaths, steps, bridges, walls or provide right of ways.
- Issue license to agents, contractors and business operators.
- Draw or sell house and survey plans or orthophotos.
- Supervise construction projects but monitors same.
- Carry out structural evaluation of private buildings.
- Clean delapidated/unoccupied/abandoned properties.
- Issue permit to blast rocks or boulders.
- Issue permit to cut trees.
- Control noise and other pollution on construction sites.
- Dictate working hours on construction sites.
- Consider application where an applicant is not the owner of the land unless registered permission is given by the landowner.