Master plan for ‘New Peshawar Valley’ approved

PESHAWAR: The Board of Directors (BoD) of the Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) on Tuesday formally approved the final master plan of “New Peshawar Valley,” the mega housing project of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.

The 8th board meeting of the PDA was held here with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair, said a handout.

The meeting was given a detailed briefing on the final master plan of the project and it was told that the housing scheme would be established on 1,86,400 kanals of land out of which 41percent area i.e 43.5 kanals of land has been allocated for residential plots and apartments while 28 percent area has been allocated for the construction of roads. Similarly, 16pc of area for parks and open spaces, 7pc for public buildings and 5pc would be utilised for commercial activities and parking. A 2pc area has been proposed for graveyard purposes.

Under the project, all the 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 which include 16,312 plots of 3 Marla, 17,201 plots of 5 marla, 3402 plots of 7 marla, 9526 plots of 10 marla, 13415 plots of 1 kanals, 1494 plots of 2 Kanals and 706 plots of 4 Kanals. Some 8,000 Kanals of land has been reserved which would also be utilized for the provision of residential plots on the need basis.

Other key features of the project also include the Civil Secretariat, Media Enclave, Sports City, Education and Health City which would be equipped with state-of-the-art facilities of international standard. It was further informed that a mega park with the nomenclature of “Khyber Park” would also be established under the project which would have Cultural Villages, Gandhara Museum, Theme Park, Forest, Adventure Area and all other state of the art recreational facilities.

Briefing about the Access Road alignment, it was told that the Main Expressway along with service roads would be constructed whereas other approach roads already available in the different sides of the project would also be rehabilitated.

The chief minister termed this project as need of the hour in order to control the burden of increasing population in the provincial capital and directed the quarters concerned to ensure implementation of the project as per stipulated timelines. He also directed the quarters concerned to ensure issuance of intimation letters of plots to the owners of verified lands as per laid down formula within a week and made it clear that no delay would be tolerated to this effect.

He further directed to speed up acquisition and verification of remaining land under land sharing formula, adding that his government would go all out to complete this mega housing project as fast as possible.