After a deluge of housing projects in the
Millennium City over the past few years, 2013 may be different.
According to
the Directorate Town & Country Planning (DTCP) department, against an
average of eight-nine licence applications a month by private developers since
2010, only one application was received for a residential project this year.
Out of five
licences issued in January and February, three were commercial, one for a
residential high-rise and the fifth for extension of an existing plotted
colony. In January, not a single licence was issued for a residential project.
Both licences issued that month were for commercial projects.
In February,
one licence was issued for a residential high-rise project to Emaar MGF to be
built across 10.7 acres of land in Sector 112. This project would offer around
500 housing units. Another licence was issued to Vipul for extension of its
existing plotted township in Sector 48 by about one acre. The third licence
issued in February was for a commercial project.
Setting
aside abundant supply of housing options at present, Navin Raheja, CMD of
Raheja Group, said the Haryana government has run out of the statutory minimum
licence quota of 20% of the land size in the notified zone.
“About four
lakh housing units, with a majority being high-rise apartments, are likely to
come up on 6,000 acres of land. Now, the state government has run out of the
quota for high-rise licences in the Gurgaon Master Plan 2031.
Apart from
restricted supply in the apartment category, independent plots/freehold houses
will also reflect the same trend as most developers would not qualify for the
minimum 100 acres requirement for plotted townships,” Raheja added. He is also
president of the National Real Estate Development Council.
DTCP issued
600 licences to developers for sectors 1-57 between 1981 and 2007. The first
licence was issued to DLF Universals Limited on April 20, 1981 for a plotted
township across 160 acres of land in Sector 24, 25 and 25A. The department
issued 655 more licences to developers between 2008 and 2012 for about 8,000
acres of land in Sectors (58-115), part of the Gurgaon Master Plan 2031.
In 2009, the
department registered 89 licences against an yearly average of 110. On the
other hand, a record number of 210 licences were awarded in 2008.
World Spa celebrates one ‘builder-free’ year
Comments Off | March 14, 2013
Residents of
The World Spa, an upscale condominium in Sector 30, celebrated the first
anniversary of taking over maintenance work, on Sunday.
Last year,
the society had removed agencies deployed by the developer for maintenance,
operations and security over shoddy work. “We have established our identity
separate from Unitech. We also launched a new logo that will be displayed at
the entrance,” said Gautam Gulati of the World Spa residents’ welfare
association (RWA).
In the last
one year, Gulati said, the RWA society has improved security with the
installation of CCTV cameras, procured fire extinguishers and installed
emergency lighting in the lifts and basement.
The RWA also
set up sewage treatment plant (STP) connections to all horticulture areas to
maximise usage of treated water and reduce use of fresh water.
Like the
World Spa, residents of Orchid Petals condominium on Sohna Road also shunted
out the developer’s maintenance and operations agency in February.
Such
incidents are on a rise in Gurgaon as builders and buyers remain at loggerheads
over delay in completion certificates, poor workmanship and shoddy maintenance
works. The discontent has led to several anti-developer protests, especially in
high-rise condominiums, in the recent past.
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