Revision of Lucknow Master Plan

February 16, 2011

Lucknow
Lucknow master plan is in for a revision. The board
of Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) on 11th
February decided to have a fresh look at the city
master plan whose developmental area has been
increase from 600 sq km to 980 sq km within a span
of 10 years since 1999.
Lucknow had a total area of 320 sq km (excluding Cantonment) in 1970. This increased to around 600 sq km in
1999 when 173 villages were acquired as part of citys expansion plan.
The city swallowed another 157 villages, thereby increasing its area to around 980 sq km.This (citys expansion) is
mainly because of large scale land acquisition drive for various development activities carried out by the
government as well as private builders, said LDA vice-chairman Mrityunjay Kumar Narain.
He said this would be an extended master plan for the additional land acquired over the years. This includes all
agricultural land, water bodies and environmentally sensitive zones. However, the previous master plan, framed in
2005, will remain intact. The master plan 2021 took into account 600 sq km of area.
Narain said LDA has also proposed a 156 km outer ring road around the city. Also, the revised (extended) master
plan would have two cattle colonies instead of one which is near Balaganj.
The revised master plan promises more green cover. While the master plan framed in 2005 had allotted 20.63% of
total land for greenery/parks and open spaces, the revised master plan claims to increase the allocation to 21.6%.
However, land allocation for residential purpose has been decreased from 48.25% to 45.21% in the new plan.
Commercial area too would have a relatively decreased allocation from 3.51% to 3.11%. But there would be more
land allocation for transport facilities (like roads). Against an allocation of 15.72% in 2005, the allocation of land for
road would increase to 18.83%. Likewise, there would be higher allocation of land for office space from 1.24%
to 1.30%.
But theres slight reduction in land allocation for public facilities from 6.65% in the previous master plan to
6.31% in the revised plan.
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