TOWN PLANNING

TOWN PLANNING & STANDARDS-2

(Samreen Sultan)

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Classification of Urban Settlements

The classification of urban settlements adopted by the Census of India 2011 is as follows:

1. All places with a Municipality, Corporation, Cantonment Board or notified town

area committee, etc.

2. All other places which satisfies the following criteria:

a. A minimum population of 5,000;
b. At least 75 per cent of the male main working population engaged in non-
agricultural pursuits; and
c. A density of population of at least 400 persons per sq. km.

The first category of urban units is known as Statutory Towns. These towns are notified
under law by the concerned State/UT Government and have local bodies.
The classification of urban settlements
INTER‐RELATIONSHIP AMONG VARIOUS PLANS
GENERAL PROCESS OF PLANNING
DECENTRALISED PLAN APPROVAL PROCESS
DEVELOPMENT / STRUCTURE / MASTER PLANS

The Development plan should contain the following major heads:

1. Existing Conditions and Development Issues
2. Assessment of Deficiencies and Projected Requirements
3. Vision and Mission
4. Development Proposals
5. Implementation Plan
A. Analysis of Existing Scenario and Development Issues

1. Background:
􀂃 Location, regional setting and connectivity
􀂃 Brief history of development of the town
􀂃 City influence and its characteristics including settlement pattern, rural‐urban
relationship and fringe area developments
􀂃 Physical setting – Topography, Climate, Soil (profile and condition), Geology &
Geomorphology, Litho‐logy, Neo‐Tectonics, Micro‐Seismic zones and Hydrology,
Sub‐surface aquifer systems

2. Demographic Profile:
􀂃 Existing population and distribution
􀂃 Population growth and its composition of
• Natural growth
• Migration pattern/
• Jurisdictional changes
• Floating population
• Age‐sex composition and literacy rate (trend analysis)
• Workforce participation
• Population density (net and gross)
• Household characteristics ‐ Household sizes
4. Economic Profile:

􀂃 Primary:
• Agriculture, horticulture & forestry
• Sericulture and/or Fishing
• Mining & quarrying
􀂃 Secondary:
• Manufacturing – large, medium and clusters of MSME
• Household industries
• Construction
􀂃 Tertiary:
• Trade (whole sale / retail trade)
• Tourism, Hotels and Restaurants
• Transport, Storage and Communication
• Financial services such as Banking, Insurance etc.
• Real estate and Business services
• Public Administration
• Others services
• Informal sector as informal trade, commerce.
􀂃 Work‐force & Occupational pattern (Employment data to be analysed gender wise &
age wise)
􀂃 Employment generation / Major work areas
5. Infrastructure Profile:

Transportation:

􀂃 Mode of transportation ‐ by road, rail, air, water as the case may be.
􀂃 Network of roads, railways, waterways and their interrelationship with
major activity nodes
􀂃 Transport Corridors & Terminals.
􀂃 Trans‐intra city transportation facility
􀂃 Pedestrian and bicycle
􀂃 Network of city‐level non‐motorized routes and zones
􀂃 Goods movement system
􀂃 Transportation land use integration
􀂃 Parking
􀂃 Signage and way findings

Facilities like:

􀂃 Education: schools, technical institutes, universities,

􀂃 Health care: Dispensary, health centres, hospitals
􀂃 Recreational spaces, Parks and Open spaces
􀂃 Religious spaces
􀂃 Socio‐cultural facilities
Physical Infrastructure: (benchmarks)
􀂃 Water supply: network, existing demand and supply scenario, water transmission,
reservoirs and distribution, rainwater harvesting
􀂃 Energy: existing demand and supply scenario, transmission and distribution network,
renewable energy
􀂃 Drainage, Sanitation and Solid waste disposal: existing demand and supply scenario,
generation and collection system, transportation, treatment, re‐cycling and re‐use of
waste
􀂃 Transport and Communication
􀂃 Police protection, Fire protection
􀂃 Cremation and graveyards
􀂃 Disaster management centre

6. Environmental Profile
􀂃 Eco‐sensitive zone ‐ Protected or restricted areas such as National parks and Wildlife
sanctuaries and eco‐sensitive buffers around it
􀂃 River, Water bodies and wetlands
􀂃 Coastal/ Hill zone, if any
􀂃 Green & Forest cover
􀂃 Pollution levels ‐ air, water, noise, soil pollution
􀂃 Disaster Management
Hazard prone zones such as earthquake, floods/flash floods, high winds, cyclone, fire,
land slide, tsunami Disaster mapping ‐ vulnerability and risk assessment of the region
􀂃 All environmentally sensitive areas
7. Shelter (both formal and informal)
􀂃 Housing scenario
􀂃 Housing stock & supply
􀂃 Mapping of slums, squatter settlements/JJ clusters, other informal settlements
􀂃 Housing supply mechanism,
􀂃 Housing need assessment including typologies
• Low cost housing
• Affordable Housing
• Rental Housing
• Night shelters
• Public housing
• Slum settlements
• Squatter settlement
8. Administrative profile:
􀂃 Legal framework
􀂃 Institutional framework & manpower
􀂃 Fiscal: Sources of revenue, streams of expenditure – existing and required
􀂃 Major policy issues
􀂃 Key issues in governance
􀂃 Grievance Redress
􀂃 City level reforms
9. Maps & Plans:
􀂃 Existing landuse / utilisation plan
􀂃 Historical city growth map, etc
B. Projected Requirements
1. Population
2. Economic base & Employment
3. Shelter
4. Transportation
5. Social Infra.
6. Physical Infra.
7. Landuse Requirements
8. Disater Mgt. Infra
C. Development of Vision
D. Development Proposals
1. Landuse Plan
2. Comprehensive Mobility Plan
3. Infrastructure Plan/ Utility Plan
4. Special Area Planning
5. Development promotion rules
6. Annexures – Various maps
E. Implementation
1. Priorities
2. Phasing
3. Land Resource mobilisation
4. Investment Strategy
5. Institutional Setup
 Land Assembly
Land assembly and development mechanism are undertaken
for achieving optimum social use of urban land and to ensure
adequate availability of land to public authority and
individuals.
Land Acquisition: bulk land acquisition by State and by private initiatives.

Land Pooling: land pooling approach and redistribution scheme, popularly

known as Town Planning schemes.

Land Reservations: the concept of Accommodation Reservation which

allows the land owner to develop the sites reserved for an amenity.

Transferable Development Rights: a technique of land development which

separates the development potential of a land parcel for use elsewhere.

Guided Land Development: this model uses the provision of infrastructure

as an instrument to guide urban development in partnership with land‐
owners without pooling any land.
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