Floor Space Index
The protests by the residents of a housing society in Chunabhatti, Sion in Mumbai have been falling on deaf ears as their builder has been garnering the rent against two mobile towers on their building without fail. The rent is being paid by the service providers for the towers to the builder for the towers [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has been on a demolition spree recently and has removed all illegal constructions which measure more than 25,000 sq ft in Ghorpadi area. One of such buildings had 36 flats and out of total, about 18 were occupied. Apart from this property, a six-storey reinforced cement concrete (RCC) building was also [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai: In order to control unauthorised constructions in the state, following the appalling building collapse in Mumbra, Thane, the state government has planned to appoint special officers at the municipal corporations. The Minister for State for Housing, Sachin Ahir, stated that the government has decided that an officer will be appointed for each ward who [...] Continue Reading »
The Maharashtra Government has decided to give the developers in Mumbai an opportunity to use 100 percent of basement area in an upcoming building for parking facility. This initiative has been taken by the state in an attempt to avoid the parking woes caused by the occupancy of roadside spaces by cars. Currently, only 50 [...] Continue Reading »
Bombay High Court has recently given green signal for additional floor space index (FSI) for around 2,200 redevelopment projects in Mumbai. The only condition that was kept forward by the government was struck down by the bench. The condition was to grant extra FSI in case of ongoing redevelopment schemes for old cessed buildings. Earlier [...] Continue Reading »
The Chief Minister of Maharashtra has ensured in the legislative assembly that the new policy for Maharashtra Housing Area Development Authority (Mhada) redevelopment along with norms will be issued soon. Also, the state government has decided to not charge premium for Mhada redevelopment projects as against extra floor space index (FSI). The plan has been [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally managed to recover Rs 8 crore of a total due amount of Rs 628 crore from the developers in Mumbai. After the modification of the fee structure to recover dues, the civic body is yet to recover Rs 71 crore, while the remaining Rs 549 crore will be collected [...] Continue Reading »
Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation(PCMC) is set to put boundaries on all the lands as marked in the development plan (DP). The civic body is not able to acquire many of them, so it has not developed many of these plots. As per the engineering department of PCMC, the land demarcations will be done whichever are [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recently demolished 38 illegal structures standing tall in Shivajinagar, KasbaPeth, Wadgaonsheri, NIBM Road and Shivarkar Road. These structures which were razed by the civic body include 38 tin shed structures and eight concrete houses located in the slums. PMC has already started the demolition drive which has been one month [...] Continue Reading »
Pune Development Plan (DP) has again gone into troubles after some of the corporators raised issues during a recent general body (GB) meeting of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). The ruling party and others managed to get their resolutions passed in this meeting but some were not happy with the resolutions and hinted that they would be moving [...] Continue Reading »
