After almost a decade, the restraint on giving building use (BU) permission, granting development permission and accepting revised plans for a 3, 380 unit of luxury bungalows scheme between Sanathal and Telav villages called Gokuldham has been removed by the special inquiry committee of the state urban development department.
The enquiry committee was to investigate if there were any irregularities in giving plan approvals and building use (BU) permissions to individual bungalows and if the exemption from deducting 40% land from the 50 hectare plot for common services was valid.
The Gokuldham scheme is spread over 5 lakh sq mt or 50 hectares and has a market value of approx Rs 2,000 crore. After the green flag from the inquiry committee, AUDA will lay a special town planning scheme for the area, which will allow civic facilities to be laid for property owners.
The scheme is spread on sub-plots between 78 and 80A. Since March 28, 2014, AUDA had stopped giving BU permission after local MLAs demanded enquiry as to why the 50 hectare scheme was exempted from the mandatory 40% land deduction.
On April 29, 2006, the scheme was first approved under and exception rule of the general development control regulations (GDRC) of 2002, called the comprehensive layout category. The land of the Gokuldham Project was notified as an agriculture zone convertible to residential zone 2 or R2 under the comprehensive layout category.
Development permission for individual units was granted under regulation 32.11 of the GDRC. Under 5(d) of GDRC a comprehensive layout plan of the 50- hectare land was allowed for provisioning of residential zone 2. This rule detailed that in case of sub-plotting; the building unit constructed on these sub plots shall not be less than 1,000 sq. mt. The maximum height of buildings should not be more than 7m and the maximum built up area of any floor shall not be more than 20% of the plot area.
