MASTER PLAN FOR DELHI 2021

The Master plan provides a blueprint in terms of Delhi’s growth over the next 15 years.

After a year-long agitation that saw bloody battles played out on the capital’s streets, the Delhi Master Plan 2021 was notified late Wednesday the 7th February 2007 with provisions that have brought smile on the face of thousands of traders operation business units in residential areas.

The MPD 2021 is notified with effect from 7th February 2007.

It allows liberal mixed land use in middle and lower middle class colonies, where commercial use of residential building is rampant. It seeks to legalise schools, nursing homes and pathology labs in residential zones.

The master plan, will encourage vertical development of Delhi, seeks to pave the way for development of the capital’s historical quarter in the walled city.

It incorporates mixed land use notifications of September last year, allowing businesses along on 2,183 roads of Delhi that is, areas where housing and commercial units can exist side by side. Besides, small shops of daily needs have been permitted in residential areas. The plan also said that there would be no height restrictions for group housing schemes.

MASTER PLAN FOR DELHI WITH A PERSPECTIVE FOR 2021.

The Central Government has notified the Master Plan for 2021 on 7th February 2007, in exercise of powers under the Delhi Development Act, 1957. The notification of the MPD 2021 marks the culmination of a detailed and extensive exercise carried out over the past three years to modify the Master Plan to meet the challenges of fast evolving changes in the urban scenario in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

The plan for 2021 sets out a new direction and character to the future growth of the city taking into account:

  • The socio-economic aspirations of the growing population of citizens including the large number of migrants mainly of economically weaker sections of society;
  • The needs for effective and optimal utilization of land, a scarce and limited commodity in Delhi;
  • The economics of providing shelter, commercial space, civic amenities, education and health facilities and recreational areas;
  • The need to preserve both the architectural heritage and the natural environment;
  • Recognition of the role of informal service providers, small enterprises and the unorganized sector in the economy, and;
  • The ground realities as well as issues of municipal governance and enforcement.

MIXED USE REGULATIONS

The policy acknowledges the need for permitting use of land for purposes other than that for which it was originally envisaged and lays down the conditions under which this may be applied in different situations. The general procedure to be followed for implementation of the said policy, and mitigating measures to be taken to counter the effect of such non-intended use in such area also described.

  1. Governing principles for mixed use.
  1. Mixed use means the provisions for non-residential activity in residential premises.
  2. The policy aims to balance the socio-economic need for such activity and the environmental impact of the said activity in residential areas.
  3. Mixed use allows access to commercial activities in the proximity of the residences and reduces the need for commuting across zones in the city. However, at the same time, needs to be regulated in order to manage and mitigate the associated adverse impact related to congestions, increased traffic and increased pressure on civic amenities.
  4. The overriding principles for permitting Mixed-use are the need to acknowledge and make adequate provision for meeting community needs, mitttigating environmental impact and providing for safe and convenient circulation and parking.
  5. Mixed use, (including small shops as per para 15.6.3) shall not be permitted in the lutyens’ bungalow zones, Civil Lines bungalow zone, government housing, institutional / staff housing of public and private agencies and buildings / precincts listed by the Heritage Conservation Committee.

For any further query regarding

  1. Mixed land use regulations/any other related issues,
  2. List of commercial streets, Mixed use streets, Pedestrian shopping streets and already notified mixed use streets as commercial streets

Please visit official website of MPD 2021 along with revised supplements to modified Master Plan for Delhi 2021.