At present, land is getting under pressure with the increasing population and needs planned development. You need land to grow your food, graze your animals, to raise your factories and forest cover to keep your environment to provide the space for other lie forms and also to keep the planet breathable. Naturally, planned development is the need of the hour, and the future unit developments will be planned or PUDs.
Planning the Development
Mounting pressure on land usage has forced the town planners to go for innovative ideas. The PUDs are a step towards that. Now unit developments can be of two types under one scheme if you are the owner of a stretch of a land or marked a stretch of land and planning to develop it for profit, or the local council possesses a parcel of land and trying to go for PUD. Whatever, be the case the end users are ordinary public. In all such situations, the following points become pertinent.
- The development can be over a parcel of land that is owned by the local council, in that case, a legislation is necessary to give the PUD the legal status
- In that case, the development plan has to be chalked out taking the stakeholders in the loop to make it free from public objection
- There must be a defined purpose behind the development program, and that must be transparent to the public to avoid opposition from the public or Public Interest Litigations.
Considerations made by builders and developers:
Therefore, the public voices must be heard, and they must have opportunity to object the plan, and their objections must have public hearing to avoid any complications once the work starts.
- It is necessary and essential because the development projects will be handed over to the developers for the developments and stoppage of work will not only put the project at stake but also the developer will face a dead end and stuck up with their investment.
- In the case you are the owner of the entire parcel of land and planning to then you must consider the followings.
- The area in which you are planning your project is eligible for development by the local council. The area is free from all sorts of restrictions or not and has adequate drainage facility or not. It is possible that the land is free, but the contour of the land is such that you can’t connect the sewerage to the main discharge line for technical ground.
- The area where your property is situated is marked for a typical utility or not, in that case, your unit developments have to follow the overall guideline. It means that if the area is marked as the residential area only, you can’t utilize the space to make self-sustainable residential-cum- commercial complex.
Legislation required for residential and commercial units
The residential units need free space to breathe in therefore the plan must include all such facilities. Besides, the current legislation almost everywhere demands Brownfield projects, which include non-motorized movement within the area and all such matters need to be addressed.
- If the project is on municipal land, then the stakeholders include ordinary public, and public opinion matters the most.
- The PUDs need a proper legislation.
The sustainable development
Space and environment both being a matter of concern the planned unit developments are the only option to make the development sustainable. And the need is to assess what the locality needs, a totals residential units or a residential cum commercial unit with separately marked areas or parks and open recreational space like a golf link or everything inclusive.
The Greenfield projects are the buzz word now for making a Greenfield project meaningful the society needs PUDs.