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UD PFI – guide lines, standard and regulations – DCR – performance standards for housing

What is UDPFI & its Purpose?

UDPFI – Urban Development Plan Formulation & Implementation Guidelines.

The UDPFI guidelines provide standardised guidelines to urban planners and city managements for
the provision of infrastructure services to urban areas of varied population sizes in India. These
guidelines are referred to compute the gaps in existing and desired levels of infrastructure for the
population segments under study.

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SECOND MASTER PLAN FOR CHENNAI METROPOLITAN AREA, 2026

DCR- DEVELOPMENT CONTROL RULES

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PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR HOUSING

 Housing codes should aim at establishing guiding principles and the standards of
performance required for a dwelling to be healthy safe and pleasing environment.
 Performance standards are flexible and therefore much more desirable in practice,
but require a degree of sophistication which may not exist. Eg: Materials that would
resist fire for 2 hours – implies existence of slab to test and certify the materials.
 It is possible to use performance standards for “Levels of services”
 Eg: “All dwellings should be accessible from footpaths which are unusable without
danger or discomfort at all times of the year” implies standard of construction or law
is above flood water etc without specifying particular materials and methods.

Aesthetic and Social Qualities

 Some qualities of standards are not measurable at all or measurable only with great
difficulty.
 Eg: Analyse views in terms of qualities of pleasant and unpleasant elements. Much of
the character of housing environment is the result of interaction between factor,
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accidents of building, rebuilding and changing uses and not merely fight concerned
standards.

Narrowness of Standards
 Important quantifiable aspects of some factors are without standards.
 Eg: Sunlight standards are measure of sunlight coming into the buildings and not of
sunlight visible outside in the sunlit view.
 Standards suppress creative design.
 Standards block initiative and innovation in environmental design.
 Standards are instruments of co-operation.
 To establish standards is an important part of the movement to improve conditions
of health and safety and to remedy the desperately bad conditions resulting from
uncontrolled growth.
 The term standards is associated with
 Quality control
 Guaranteeing the uniformity of products and services.

Standards are Authoritative

Standards are Essentials as Controls
 Needs of standards as authoritative and as instruments of good combine in the idea
of their being necessary tools of control. The need for such new tools are very
essential in the case of big programmes of housing new town building.
 In short a system of standards is felt by some to be necessary as codification of
experience and to meet problems gaining new prominence. (Eg: Noise, Air pollution)

GENERAL ISSUES OF COMPARATIVE STANDARDS

Various agencies have evolved space standards are to be adopted in different areas. These
standards confine either to the income level or on to the household planning commission
have aimed for health and privacy.

A. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (according to subsided housing programmes)

1. Single storeyed tenements in smaller towns are with Carpet area – 220 sq.ft, Enclosed
area – 250 sq.ft
2. Multi storeyed tenements in large cities are with Carpet area – 240 sq.ft.
3. A single dwelling unit with total of 230 sq.ft.
A Room – 120 ft2 (11 m2)
A Verandah/Kitchen – 72 ft2 (6.7 m2)
A Bathroom – 10 ft2 (1.5 m2)
A Water closet – 12 ft2 (1.1m2)

B. MADRAS PROVINCIAL HOUSING COMMITTEE

 Habitable room- preferably – minimum floor area – 120 ft2
 Height – 10ft for flat roof
 9 ft for sloped roof and plinth 10 inches.

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C.NATIONAL BUILDING CODE

 Height of rooms should not be less than 2.75m for row housing schemes.
 Generally height of rooms should not be less than 2.9m.
 Area of habitable room should not be less than 7.5m2
 Minimum width of habitable room – 2.4m
 Area of kitchen – 5m2, minimum width- 1.8m.
 Size of bath – 1.5mx1.2m or 1.8m2.
 Height – 2.2m
Comparative statement of density norms and space standards are prescribed by committee
of plan projects, Bureau of public enterprises, Ministry of finance.
Several norms have been put forward by the planning authorities’ w.r.t land use and
desirable densities of population.

HOUSING

Minimum plinth area per dwelling : 32.5 sq.m

Minimum floor area per dwelling : 23.25 sq.m
Minimum size of dwelling : 2 living rooms, kitchen and bath.
Desirable persons per room: 2

Density of dwellings

Density of dwellings Dwelling units per hectare

Low density area 25
Minimum density area 50
High density area 75
Average density of dwellings 40-50
Average size of family 5 persons

Layouts for flats and cluster housing and EWS housing shall be approved subject to such
conditions as may be imposed by the authority provided that within standards are adhered
to:
1. Passage meant as pedestrian ways shall not be less than 3.6m.
2. Vehicular access ways shall not be less than 7.2m.
3. When buildings are arranged in blocks, the minimum distance between two blocks shall
be 6 metres both in front and rear of the blocks and 3 metres on the sides.
4. Reservation of land for communal and recreational purpose shall not be less than 10% of
the area excluding roads and passages.

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METHODOLOGY FOR ARRIVING STANDARDS FOR RESIDENTIAL AREAS

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