Habaragamuralalage Sunil Premasiri Peiris vs Urban Development Authority – CA WRIT/419/2014-2017

In the case between Habaragamuralalage Sunil Premasiri Peiris and the Urban Development Authority (with additional respondents, including the Chairman and Director General of the Urban Development Authority and officials of the Homagama Pradeshiya Sabha), the court addressed the issue of whether legal restrictions imposed on building height and structure by the Urban Development Authority (UDA) and local authorities were lawfully applied to the petitioner’s land. The court held that the UDA’s restrictions, including the limitation to a single-story dwelling within a regulated distance of the Southern Express Way, were lawfully imposed, determining that the petitioner’s land did not qualify as an “existing lot” under earlier regulations, and that restrictive policies applied to all new dwel