The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) conducted a seminar to announce Lahore Land Use Rules 2020, a news source reported. Various stakeholders were invited to present their inputs about the draft rules.
10 Land Categories Introduced under 3 headers
The authority has divided the city of Lahore into 10 domains namely commercial, mixed-use, residential, industrial, agriculture, open space institutional, peri-urban, special development zone, recreational, and notified area.
A brief overview of the LDA Land Use Rules is illustrated in this write-up.
The document issued for LDA Land Use Rules 2020 further classified the city land into sub-categories:
- Permitted use: The land use is allowed in each land-use class under the rules.
- Permissible use: The lands, though not permitted, may be allowed by the planning and design committee subject to the payment of the fee.
- Prohibited use: The land use, which is neither permitted nor permissible.
The following article is a piece of information that will take you through the most recent and significant update about real estate development in the city of Lahore.
As per the details revealed in the recent Land Use Rules 2020, the categories of land in the city of Lahore are sub-categorized under three headers mentioned above. Let’s dig deeper into how LDA has drawn the lines between the different types of real estate under these headers.
Residential Land with Permitted use for construction of:
- House
- Apartment building
- Graveyard
- Horticulture nursery
- Parking & playground
- Old age home or orphanage
- Urban farm
- Urban forest
Residential Land with Permissible use for construction of:
- Corner or neighborhood shop
- Convenience shop
- Place of worship
- Rehabilitation center for the differently-abled persons
- Day-care center and pre-school
- Primary & junior school, coaching center or academy for educational purpose
- Secondary & higher secondary schools
- College & university
- Hospital
- Dispensary
- ATM
- Indoor sports facility
- A community center or club
- Guesthouse
- Poly-clinic
- Parking plaza or parking site
- Area development project
- Library
- Diplomatic enclave or diplomatic office
- Government or semi-government office
Commercial Land with Permitted use for construction of:
- Residential apartment
- Multi-storey building
- Mixed-use building
- Court or tribunal comprising of land not less than 2 kanals
- Shopping mall
- Shops or group of shops
- Departmental store
Commercial Land with Permissible use for construction of:
- Theatre
- Auditorium
- Cinema, Cineplex, or multiplex
- Concert hall, exhibition hall, or cultural institution
- Technical & vocational institution
Industrial Land with Permitted use for construction of:
- Heavy or large industry
- Cottage, light & medium industry
- Warehouse, storage, or distribution center; building material store
- Cold storage & ice factory
- Loading & unloading space
- Petrochemicals, petroleum, & gas products storage or warehouse
- Police station
- Bank or ATM
- Fire station
- Post office
- Parking lot
- Grid station
- Power plant
- Industrial park or estate
- Industrial research institute
- Treatment or recycling plant
- Vocational training institute
- Urban forest area
Industrial Land with Permissible use for construction of:
- Essential residential, commercial, health and educational facility for workers or employees
- Hospital
- Restaurant
- Petrol pump
- Gas station
- LPG or LNG storage or filling station
- Oil depot
- Incineration plant
- Auto workshop
- Service garage & service station
Moreover, LDA has prohibited the activities of storing, packing, cleaning, pursing, preparing, and manufacturing of blasting powder, fireworks, sulfur, gun powder, nitro-compounds, ammunition, dynamite, explosives, phosphorous, bombs, gases, mercury, or any type of hazardous or obnoxious material in the industrial areas around Lahore.
Further information about the types of land and their land-use rules can be fetched from LDA’s official website. The draft is yet to be presented in front of the governing body who will tweak the document while deliberating upon the inputs from the stakeholders, LDA Chief Town Planner Tariq Mahmood assured in the seminar.
