LDA Divides Lahore Land Into 10 Categories

In order to encourage planned and systemic bin in the provincial capital, the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has introduced LDA Land Use Rules 2020.

For the purpose of usage classification, the LDA Land Use Rules 2020 notification shows that the authority has divided the land into 10 classes, including residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, mixed-use, open space and recreational, peri-urban, special development zone, agriculture and notified area. The authority has further classified the land usage in three broad categories of permitted use, permissible use and prohibited use.

It showed that land in a residential area is only permitted for construction of house, apartment building, parking and playground, graveyard, horticulture nursery, urban farm, old age home or orphanage and urban forest. However, its permissible use includes corner or neighbourhood shop or convenience shop, place of worship, day-care centre and pre-school, rehabilitation centre for the differently-abled persons, primary and junior school, coaching centre or academy for educational purpose, secondary and higher secondary schools, dispensary, guest house, indoor sports facility, community centre or club, ATM and poly-clinic. It is also permissible to use the land for parking plaza or parking site, diplomatic enclave or diplomatic office, area development project, college and university, library, government or semi-government office and hospital.