Irregular subdivision: what it is, consequences, how to regularize
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 8:00 am
It is very common for land subdivisions to be carried out in non-compliance with municipal licenses, or for the approval or registration procedure with the competent Registry Office not even to be completed.
But this is not a recent problem. Belo Horizonte and the cities around it, for example, have been facing an urgent demand for urban regularization for some decades, since such irregular subdivisions arose from the division of several old farms, without any urban planning.
Back in 2013, there was talk of 500 irregular subdivisions in the metropolitan region of the capital of Minas Gerais and, more than a decade later, this scenario has not changed much.
And this situation is not exclusive to Belo Horizonte.
That year, in Juiz de Fora/MG alone, 55 irregular accurate mobile phone number list subdivisions were identified by the Secretariat for Sustainability in the Environment and Urban Activities (Sesmaur).
It has become commonplace to see news reports of city halls halting construction work or municipal inspections due to irregular subdivisions throughout the country, which poses a major risk to urban planning in cities and environmental preservation areas, in addition to directly affecting buyers of lots located in these subdivisions.
Our article today is dedicated to this topic, and aims to clarify what an irregular subdivision is, what its consequences are and options for its regularization.
Subdivision is one of the possibilities for dividing urban land , provided for in article 2 of Law No. 6766/79 (Urban Land Subdivision Law – LPSU).
The subdivision of urban land , as defined in our article “ Law 6766/79 – the origin of the subdivision of urban land ”, means dividing a plot/land into smaller fractions, which will become independent lots /units, each with its own real estate registration, intended for construction .
In turn, the LPSU also defines that a lot is any land that has basic infrastructure, the dimensions of which meet the urban indexes defined by the master plan or municipal law for the area in which it is located (article 2, §4).
But this is not a recent problem. Belo Horizonte and the cities around it, for example, have been facing an urgent demand for urban regularization for some decades, since such irregular subdivisions arose from the division of several old farms, without any urban planning.
Back in 2013, there was talk of 500 irregular subdivisions in the metropolitan region of the capital of Minas Gerais and, more than a decade later, this scenario has not changed much.
And this situation is not exclusive to Belo Horizonte.
That year, in Juiz de Fora/MG alone, 55 irregular accurate mobile phone number list subdivisions were identified by the Secretariat for Sustainability in the Environment and Urban Activities (Sesmaur).
It has become commonplace to see news reports of city halls halting construction work or municipal inspections due to irregular subdivisions throughout the country, which poses a major risk to urban planning in cities and environmental preservation areas, in addition to directly affecting buyers of lots located in these subdivisions.
Our article today is dedicated to this topic, and aims to clarify what an irregular subdivision is, what its consequences are and options for its regularization.
Subdivision is one of the possibilities for dividing urban land , provided for in article 2 of Law No. 6766/79 (Urban Land Subdivision Law – LPSU).
The subdivision of urban land , as defined in our article “ Law 6766/79 – the origin of the subdivision of urban land ”, means dividing a plot/land into smaller fractions, which will become independent lots /units, each with its own real estate registration, intended for construction .
In turn, the LPSU also defines that a lot is any land that has basic infrastructure, the dimensions of which meet the urban indexes defined by the master plan or municipal law for the area in which it is located (article 2, §4).