1. The petitioners by the above three writ petitions challenge Circular No. 46848/P1/2016/ Revenue dated 22.12.2016. The essential challenge is against the restriction of conversion of user of lands, which are described as “paddy lands” in the Revenue records, but not included in the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wet Land Act, 2008 [for brevity “Paddy land Act”]. The restriction is insofar as permitting conversion, under the Kerala Land Utilisation Order, 1967 (for brevity “KLU Order”) only for construction of a residential house for the owner of the land, that too confined to 10 cents in Panchayat area and 5 cents in Municipality/Corporation areas.

2. The facts slightly differ. The petitioners in W.P. (C) No. 13194 of 2017 were repeatedly before this Court and having obtained orders directing consideration of conversion of user, had been faced with orders of refusal; the last one impugned in the writ petition, for reason of the Circular of 2016. W.P. (C) No. 17034 of 2017 is a case in which the petitioner approached the 3rd respondent, which was transmitted to the 2nd respondent and left without any consideration. W.P. (C) No. 21438 of 2017 again challenge an orde