‘New Peshawar Valley’ master plan approved
Aligarh Cooperative Housing Society remains occupied after 45 years.
The Board of Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) has formally approved the final master plan of ‘New Peshawar Valley’ the mega housing project of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government.
The 8th board meeting of PDA was held on Tuesday with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair. Provincial Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra, MPA Pir Fida, Principal Secretary to chief minister Amjad Ali Khan and other board members attended the meeting.
The meeting was given a detailed briefing on the final master plan of the project and it was revealed that the housing scheme will be established on 186,400 kanal of land out of which 41 per cent area has been allocated for residential plots and apartments while 28 per cent area has been allocated for the construction of roads. Similarly, 16 per cent of area for parks and open spaces, seven per cent for public buildings and five per cent would be utilized for commercial activities and parking. Besides, two per cent area has been proposed for graveyards.
Under the project, all those facilities have been planned which are indispensable for any modern housing society. According to the detailed master plan initially 62,056 residential plots of different categories have been proposed including 16,312 plots of 3 marla, 17,201 plots of five marla, 3,402 plots of seven marla, 9,526 plots of 10 marla, 13,415 plots of one kanal, 1,494 plots of two kanal and 706 plots of four kanal.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2022.