How many square meters can a person occupy when building a house in the countryside?

The Measures for the Administration of Rural Homestead has corresponding provisions:

Article 9 Rural villagers can only own one homestead, and the standard of homestead area is that the maximum use of cultivated land shall not exceed125m2, and the maximum use of other land shall not exceed140m2; Conditional use of mountainous wasteland, barren slopes, not more than 160 square meters.

If non-cultivated land is used, the maximum increase of each file can be15m2; Where there are conditions in mountainous areas to use barren slopes and barren hills to build houses, each file can be increased by up to 35m2. If the resettlement area of the old village down the mountain exceeds the land use index of more than 20 m2, the land use index of one grade may be relaxed.

Extended data

According to Article 14 of the Measures for the Administration of Rural Homestead

In any of the following circumstances, the application for homestead shall not be approved:

(a) before applying for a new homestead, the area of the homestead has reached the prescribed standard, except for the transformation of the old village for the implementation of village and market town planning;

(2) Renting, selling or transferring the homestead and the above-ground buildings in other forms (except for the unreasonable adjustment due to the lack of housing users), or applying for the homestead after converting the house into other uses;

(three) all family members as a family to apply for homestead and get approval, do not have the conditions of household or unreasonable household to apply for homestead;

(four) the children have set up a household and meet the conditions for setting up a household, and the parents apply for a homestead separately;

(five) the implementation of the transformation of old villages or the implementation of planned natural village merger, building on the original homestead;

(six) houses that do not need to live are not demolished, and the homestead is not returned to the village collective;

(seven) illegal housing is not dealt with according to law;

(eight) other do not meet the conditions of building.

Article 15

Under any of the following circumstances, with the approval of the county people's government, the land use right certificate or relevant approval documents may be cancelled, and the village collective may recover the right to use the homestead:

(a) the homestead has not started construction for two years from the date of approval (except in special circumstances);

(two) when the homestead is submitted for approval, it promises to build a new house or demolish an old house to the village collective without demolishing the old house by itself;

(three) the village that has been approved to implement the transformation of the old village or the migration down the mountain has moved into the original homestead where the new house (village) lives;

(four) obtaining approval or illegally transferring the homestead;

(five) other circumstances in which the right to use the homestead should be recovered.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Measures for the Management of Rural Homestead