Delhi Masterplan Review

URBAN FORM & DEVELOPMENT CONTROLS

Master Plan Review

MPD 1962

MPD 1981

MPD 2021

Vision 2021is to make Delhi a global metropolis and a WORLD CLASS city, where all people would be engaged in productive work with a better quality of life, living in a SUSTAINABLE environment.

Delhi today

From the seven cities of Delhi to

Delhi and its five cities

City Layers

Traditional medieval layerColonial Baroque layer

Post – independence Modern layer

City Layers

“Rural city” layerSuburban / Edge- city

layer

Delhi’s Urban Layering

traditional city

colonial city

modern

capital city

sprawling

endless city

Urban “village” city

MASTER PLAN REVIEW URBAN FORM, HERITAGE AND DEVELOPMENT CONTROLS URBAN DESIGN DEPT, SPA

INTRODUCTION TO THE CITY OF DELHI HISTORY AND MORPHOLOGY



NOT ENOUGH CLARITY OVER THE 500M INFLUENCE ZONE FOR TOD

Eg: Karol Bagh• 500 m influence zone has been declared for the metro

line with higher far and other incentives, but it doesn’t resonate in the Master plan as the land uses are doesn’t really overlap.


HIGHER FAR IN NEW REGULARIZED COLONIES

• FAR is being increased to increase the density, but these areas of higher densities are not capable of accommodating that density. The stress on infrastructure needs to be looked into before increasing the FAR.

• Increasing FAR on same small size plots could lead to a maze of dark and unpleasant streets.

Eg: Gittorni


MINIMUM UD GUIDELINES

• The urban form of the city at a blanket level is defined by 3 factors- FAR, GC and Setbacks.

• FAR, presumes that controlling factors are equally important, and in the same proportion across every part of a zoning district. In urban design terms this is very unlikely to be the case. For example on corner plots higher buildings may be more appropriate, and at zoning district edges there needs to be a transition in building heights (succession zoning). Also at key positions like end points of vistas there may be cases for increased massing, but this kind of ‘design led’ bulk zoning is not intrinsic to FAR based controls and traditional bulk zoning plans.

• It controls mass but not form or design

Necropolis than a metropolis


REDENSIFICATION AND REDEVELOPMENT

• In India, there is approx. 24 million shortage in the housing. Given this need for housing, our tendency to sprawl will place a great strain on our environment and our future economy. How long we can sustain ourselves on our finite land mass.

Our future will depend on how carefully we use land in this new century. We can choose between two basic approaches to land development—spreading out or growing in and up.

Eg: New peripherals added


BLANKET RULES OVER VERY LARGE AREA

• It is difficult for the dev. controls to be simultaneously a controller of bulk and a controller of infrastructure demand, because different land uses have different impacts, such as traffic generation per unit floor area.

• Different land uses can have different bulks for the same floor area because of different floor to ceiling heights between land uses.

Eg: Kirti Nagar


HEIGHT REGULATION FLAT 15M

• Height regulations for specific plot sizes again add to the monotony we have been discussing about.

No. Area of the Plot (sqm.) Maximum ground coverage (%)

Maximum FAR Maximum height in M

1. Below 32 90 350 15

2. Above 32 to 50 90 350 15

3. Above 50 to 100 90 350 15

4. Above 100 to 250 75 300 15

5. Above 250 to 500 75 225 15

6. Above 500 to1000 50 150 15

7. Above 1000 to1500 40 120 15

8. Above 1500 to2250 40 120 15

9. Above 2250 to3000 40 120 15

10. Above 3000 to3750 40 120 15

11. Above 3750 40 120 15

MPD 2021

Major focal points of the MPD are:-Housing development through1. Redensification2. Redevelopment3. New housing in urban extension

An important aspect of the new Plan is that it ends DDA's monopoly on land acquisition and development of housing stock.

Private developers have been encouraged to amalgamate land and develop them for housing.

MPD 2021

The Plan clears the way for taller buildings which will bring in ‘Redensification' of existing colonies. The higher floor-area-ratio (FAR) permitted by the Plan will allow most houses to go up to four floors.

GOING HIGHERThe buildings can be taller — going up to 14 to 16 floors —

Amalgamate an area of at least 4,000 sq m 1. Effluent treatment plant so as to not choke up the sewerage system, 2. Solar panels to generate some power.3. Underground parking space.

SQUATTER SETTLEMENT, SLUMS

4. The Plan promises that 50% of all new dwellings in the city will be for the poor.5. Each tenement will have a built-up accommodation of 25 sq m.6. Slums will go but not the slum-dwellers, highrise tenements where slums currently

sprawl.

HERITAGE

Master Plan Review


• AMASR Act 2010 acting as a blanket rule treating urban fabric as a monument. There should be a shift in attitude towards the heritage.

• It has to accommodate the contextual specificities.

• Eg: Nizamuddin Basti v/s Lodhi Gardens




• Special area development plan mentioned in the master plan to be prepared by the local body is not clarified as in how it is to be carried out and who is responsible for this.

Eg: Mehrauli


• Heritage is concerned with monuments in isolation. The monuments do not stay isolated from socio cultural, economic and infrastructural associated with it, hence , it needs a holistic approach.

• If an area is declares are there provisions for compensations to the people affected or TDR given for their changes in property rights? Should it not be made a part of the process of development ?


Overarching and overlapping of the byelaws. The ASI rule contradicting the MPD regulations where the latter should have to accommodate the central rule

Eg: Jama Masjid



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• Since there are too many agencies concerned with heritage there is a lack of co-ordiation and clarification of the power of authorities


• If Delhi becomes a World Heritage City, who is responsible for accommodating the changes concerned is unclear.

• What are the consequences if so is also not much thought about


Documents

Delhi Masterplan Review