New Delhi: Illegal constructions in the city are once again under the scanner of Delhi high court.

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Monday discussed suggestions for changes in the Master Plan Delhi-2021 with urban planners, architects and government officials.

Leading lights of the ongoing Delhi Master Plan-2021 review led by Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath, Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna and Delhi Urban Arts Commission chairman Raj Rewal discussed and debated the implications and suggestions to be incorporated in the finalised plan at a workshop here on Monday.

Other prominent speakers at the workshop include Union Urban Development Secretary Sudhir Krishna, DDA Vice-Chairman S. K. Srivastava and DDA Commissioner (Planning) S. P. Bansal.

“Acquire illegal farmhouses for social infrastructure; use sick industrial plots for residential development”

The Delhi Development Authority on Monday completed a significant milestone in its ongoing review of the Delhi Master Plan-2021. Four technical committees engaged in reviewing four broad areas of the Master Plan came up with presentations on the work done so far and an audience of top public servants, town planners, urban designers and architects offered their views on the broad ideas that the improved Master Plan seeks to incorporate.

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC) request for land at Millennium Park near Nizamuddin Bridge, for construction of entry and exit structures of the Sarai Kale Khan station, has not gone down wel

Over 4,000 suggestions from people uploaded on the web, says Urban Development Minister

Green buildings in the Capital will be allowed to increase their floor area ratio (FAR) as an incentive by the Urban Development Ministry. This is one of the proposals among 23 specific amendments to the Master Plan-2021 for Delhi that have been made by the Union Urban Development Ministry and which will now be finalised for issuing public notice.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to stay the impending notification of regularisation of as many as 917 unauthorised colonies in the Capital, saying it would consider the plea when it takes up the matter for hearing on September 6.

H.R. Suri, an architecture graduate from IIT, Karagpur, had sought a stay on the proposed notification pleading it was very likely that the Delhi Government would regularise these colonies as the Union Ministry for Urban Development had given its go-ahead for it.

Uniform parking rates across Delhi and higher charges for surface parking as against multi-level parking are some of the suggestions that have been cleared “in-principle” by all stakeholders at a m

Buried under a thick carpet of silt and marsh, Neela Hauz, considered one of the largest water bodies in South Delhi, is going to get a fresh lease of life.

Aims to discourage parking on roads, use of private vehicles

The Capital looks all set to have a new parking policy meant to regulate parking on the roads while placing a restraint on use of public space by private vehicles, thus creating an incentive to use public transport. A series of suggestions made at a meeting called by Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Thursday to address the city’s parking woes include revision of parking fees to make parking on roads more expensive than parking at street-level, or in underground and multi-storey parking lots.