Chapter – 4 URP 1113

Fundamentals of Planning Process

Various Form of Plans Part-1

1. Urban Development Plan:

 The urban development plan is central for achieving greater balance in urban
development and enabling all areas to develop to their maximum potential.
 UDP ensures more equitable distribution of the benefits of development.
I. The plan creates vision for the area it covers
II. Specifies the type, amount and quality of development needed to achieve
that vision
III. Seeks to protect and enhance the environment and amenities
IV. Creates the policy framework
2. Forms of Urban Development Plan:
2.1 Strategy Plan
2.2 Structure Plan
2.3 Master Plan
2.4 Local Area Plan
2.5 Action Plan
2.6 Subject Plan
2.7 Detailed Area Plan
3. Schematic Diagram of Four Stage Plan for a City:

fig: Schematic Diagram of Four Stage Plan for a City

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2.1 STRATEGIC PLAN:

 Policy document for the urban strategy
 Derived from national development goals spelt in the national plan document
like Five Year Plan
 The plan will establish the context of long term policy framework for further
detailing as short and long-term plans.
 Its main purpose would be to provide the basis for undertaking development
plans and programs.
 Such strategy will guide the subsequent plans such as structure plan, master
plan and detailed area plan.
 The Strategic Plan is a development strategy consisting of a comprehensive
package of physical, economic, social and environmental policies regarding
urban development over a longer period of time, such as 20 years.
 The most important policy areas are the growth of population, employment and
investment, land, infrastructure, transport, housing and social services.
 The plan will remain as legally valid document that will continue to serve as a
guide for development during next 20 years.

Fig: Development plan for RMA

Sharfan Upaul
Lecturer; Dept. of URP, KUET
Chapter – 4 URP 1113
Fundamentals of Planning Process

2.2 STRUCTURE PLAN:

 (Guide plans, framework plans, indicative plans) maps and explanatory text
which are more ‘broad brush’ than master plans, indicating the broad
magnitudes and directions of urban growth, including infrastructure networks,
the placement of major facilities such as airports, hospitals and universities.
 They do not attempt to specify detailed plot to plot land use or local road
configurations but identify those areas where growth and changes are such that
more detailed local and action area plans are needed.
 Structure Plan will identify areas where growth is likely to take place and that
need preparation of Urban Area Plan and Detailed Area Plans.
2.2.1 Structure Plan for DMDP:
 The plan provides a long-term strategy for the 20 years for the development of
the city.
 The plan consists of a written report and policy documents with support maps of
appropriate scale.
 It identifies the order of magnitude and direction of anticipated urban growth
and defines a broad set of policies considered necessary to achieve overall plan
objectives.
 It considers the micro environmental aspects of city, both in its existing urban
form as well as for future development to keep the city free from all sorts of
natural and manmade hazards.
 The plan recognizes the positive and sustainable role of green belts, preservation
of high quality wet and agricultural lands and existing rivers in and around the
city limits and their continuous upgrading and evaluation and thus recommends
for building a circular waterway round the city.
 The plan also earmarks a number of retention ponds around the city limits for
retaining rain water as well as for maintains an ecological balance too and a
healthy environment.

Sharfan Upaul
Lecturer; Dept. of URP, KUET
Chapter – 4 URP 1113
Fundamentals of Planning Process

2.3 MASTER PLAN:

 It is presented in the form of maps supported by written documents.
 In brief Master Plan is a guide to orderly city development to promote the
health, safety, welfare and convenience of the people.
 A town or a city or an urban center is a mosaic of houses and shops, factories
and offices, schools and libraries, theatres and hospitals, parks and mosques,
meeting places and government centers, fire service stations and post offices.
 These are woven together by a network of streets and transportation routes,
water, sanitation and communication channels. To arrange all these facilities
properly, as the city developers, is the function of a Master Plan.
 It’s an old concept of planning which is more static and inflexible with the
passage of time. This is why it’s called blue print planning.

Sharfan Upaul
Lecturer; Dept. of URP, KUET
Chapter – 4 URP 1113
Fundamentals of Planning Process

2.4 Master Plan Vs Strategic Plan:

Master Plan Strategic Plan

Old Concept. For a long time, planning Relatively new. It is a Policy document
has been based on so-called ‘master for the urban strategy.
planning’.
The context in which this approach was The context is newer than the master
developed in the beginning of the plan.
twentieth century.
land-use-oriented and largely unrealistic More realistic in assessment
in their assessment of limited resources
and rapid change.
‘master planning’ approaches that have more dynamic planning approach
proved to be rather static
Concrete in nature, statuary based More flexible in nature
It was practiced during the role and It is practiced nowadays physical,
power of governments and their economic, social and environmental
resources were substantial and social, policies regarding urban development
technical, scientific and spatial change over a longer period of time, such as 20
was slower than today. Then, ‘plans’ years.
could be prepared and even at times
implemented in a rather technocratic
way.
Still very common in developing It is comprehensive planning in the fast
countries, starts with an often very changing world.
comprehensive survey followed by an
analysis and interpretation of the data
and results in a ‘master plan,’ a kind of
blueprint to guide the city’s development
of a city.

Sharfan Upaul
Lecturer; Dept. of URP, KUET
Chapter – 4 URP 1113
Fundamentals of Planning Process

Fig: Difference of Mater and Strategic Planning

Reference:
Showmitra Kumar Sarkar (2018) Fundamentals of Planning and Planning Process- Basic
Issues, Fundamentals of Planning Process, URP 1113
John Glasson and Tim Marshall (2007), Regional Planning ; Published by Routledge 2
Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Sharfan Upaul
Lecturer; Dept. of URP, KUET