In rural areas, especially in the northern countryside, every house has a large yard, which is the envy of many people in the city. There are many advantages to having a yard, usually washing clothes in the yard, basking in the sun in winter, and playing with children, which is very convenient. The privacy of the rural yard is good, and there is no need to worry about noisy others.
However, what many rural people may not know is that in fact, the yard also belongs to the homestead and is also part of the homestead. Whether the yard is counted as the area of the homestead is more important, because now all localities are implementing the "one house per household", requiring that the homestead area of each household in the countryside cannot exceed the standard, and the homestead over-occupation fee will be levied after exceeding the standard, and if the excess is serious, the excess area may have to be recovered.
In the past, rural people's yards were generally very large, but now the implementation of "one house per household", strictly limiting the area of each household's homestead, most people's homesteads actually exceed the standard to varying degrees. Therefore, some people say that the area of rural homesteads will be "uniformly reduced" in the future, although it is not accurate, but there is some truth in it.
Rural houses plus yards, as long as the total area does not exceed the standard, or exceeds the standard, but within a certain range, there is no major problem, at most pay some homestead paid use fees, or called over-occupation fees.
So, in the future, how big is the area of rural homesteads to meet the regulations?The author summarizes the homestead area standards in some places, which are roughly as follows.
Shaanxi Province stipulates that each household in the suburbs of the city shall not exceed 133 square meters, each household in Sichuan and in-situ shall not exceed 200 square meters, and each household in mountainous and hilly areas shall not exceed 267 square meters.
The standard for homestead area in Hebei Province is as follows: if the per capita cultivated land is less than 1,000 square meters, each homestead shall not exceed 200 square meters;If the per capita cultivated land is more than 1,000 square meters, each homestead shall not exceed 233 square meters.
Chongqing stipulates that the per capita homestead area shall not exceed 25 square meters, the maximum area of households with less than 3 persons shall not exceed 75 square meters, the maximum area of households with 4 persons shall be 100 square meters, and the maximum area of households with more than 5 persons shall be 125 square meters.
Henan Province: In the suburbs of cities and towns and plain areas with less than 1 mu of cultivated land per capita, each homestead shall not exceed 134 square meters;In plain areas with more than 1 mu of cultivated land per capita, each homestead shall not exceed 167 square meters;In mountainous and hilly areas, the area of each homestead shall not exceed 200 square meters.
Guangdong Province stipulates that the area of homestead land in plain areas and urban suburbs shall be less than 80 square meters;hilly areas under 120 square meters;Mountainous areas up to 150 square meters.
Hubei Province has the following requirements for the area of peasant homesteads: each household using agricultural land shall not exceed 140 square meters, and each household using unused land shall not exceed 200 square meters.
Sichuan Provincial homestead area standard: 20 to 30 square meters per person, households with less than 3 people are counted as 3 people, households with 4 people are counted as 4 people, and households with more than 5 people are counted as 5 people. In other words, each household can apply for a maximum of 150 square meters and a minimum of 60 square meters.
On the whole, the latest homestead area standards have been reduced in various places, and they are certainly not comparable with before. This is also determined by various factors such as the increase in rural population, the lack of homestead land, and the increasingly strict protection of cultivated land.
As for some people who think that their homestead is "ancestral", and their ancestors have lived on this homestead for generations, why should they "shrink" now?In fact, there is no such thing as "ancestral" homesteads now, because all the land in the countryside is owned by the village collective, and there is no homestead that is "ancestral".
Of course, if the house you live in is handed down by your parents or even your ancestors, it is completely personal property, and there is no problem in saying that it is "ancestral". If the house is still there, because of the "land goes with the house", even if the homestead exceeds the standard, there is no need to pay the over-occupation fee, let alone demolish, you can rest assured.