2. Types of plans :
• Regional plan
• Master plan
• Structure plan
• Detailed development plan
3. Regional plan:
• Regional planning deals with the efficient placement of land-
use activities, infrastructure, and settlement growth across a larger area of
land than an individual city or town.
• Regional plan is a process to achieve the desired development through a
scientific and systematic way by a definitive action of integrating sectoral,
spatial and economic goals at various levels from rural to urban settlements.
4. S.No Districts of Regional Planning Area Area in Sq.km Reports
1 Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur 6,863
2 Chennai Metropolitan Area 1,189
3 Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupatthur, Tiruvannamalai 12,263
4 Salem, Namakkal, Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri 18,283
5 Villupuram, Cuddalore, Kallakurichi 10,897
6 Coimbatore, Erode, Tiruppur 15,679
7 The Nilgiris 2,565
8 Tiruchirapalli, Ariyalur, Karur, Perambalur, Pudukottai 15,753
9 Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Mayiladuthurai 8,254
10 Madurai,Theni, Dindigul 12,614
11 Sivaganaga, Ramanathapuram, Virudhunagar 12,578
12 Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Tenkasi, Kanniyakumari 13,122
Total 1,30,060
6. Objectives of regional planning:
• Ensure regional revitalization in all inner-city districts.
• As needed, reduce air and water pollution Water should be conserved.
• Maximize mass transportation expansion across area.
• Achieve excellent education at all levels and for all populations.
• Ensure suitable job creation and job training.
• Increase airport system balance for all types and sizes throughout region.
• Concentrate on revenue base sharing in all forms.
• Minimize public sector budgetary waste and balance budgets by creating and
maintaining a high-quality regional healthcare system.
7. Master plan:
• Master planning is a type of urban planning that pertains to the physical
development of a city or town over the long term, usually covering a time
frame of about 10 to 15 years into the future.
8. It is intended to guide a community’s growth
from a high-level perspective, focusing on ways
to:
• Preserve a locality’s unique character
• Ensure diversity
• Support investment
• Promote desired change
• Enhance a community’s livability
9. Features Of Master Plan:
• Convenience and cheap means of Transport
• Good Sanitation and water Supply
• Open air spaces
• Population Density Control
• Proper situations for places of worship, education and recreation
• Rational Layout
• Width of road
10. The Benefits Of Master Planning:
• Identifies And Unites Your Short-term And Long-Term Visions
• Attracts Private Sector Investments
• Engages The Local Community
• Enables Clear And Consistent Decision-Making
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12. Structural plan:
• The term 'structure' here means the social, economic, and physical_systemsof
an area.
• A structure plan is one that singles out for attention of certain aspect as
patterns of land use and the development activities they give rise to,
network of communication
location of critical facilities and buildings
distribution of the population
13. Structural plan….cont:
• The structure plan aims to influence certain key decisions.
• The structure plan will need to take account of regional and national policies.
• The structure plan for an area will be integrated with the structure plans for
adjoining areas.
• It means that aims, policies and proposals in a structure plan must be
coordinated with those for the adjoining areas
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15. Detailed Development Plans (DDPs):
• A development plan is prepared either for improvement of an old city or for
new town to be developed on virgin soil.
• Thus, a development plan aims at controlling the future growth of a town
along preconceived and predetermined paths.
• These are the action plans where the development projects and programmes
are envisaged.
• It is a micro-level plan with detailed road network in which Master Plan is
translated for development of specific area in the town which exhibits faster
growth.
16. Objects of development plan:
• it aims at intelligent and economic spending of the public funds for achieving
Welfare of the inhabitants in respect of amenity, convenience and health
• It arranges the pattern of a town in such a way so as satisfy the present
requirements without introduction of future improvements by the coming
generations.
• It helps in restricting and unplanned growth.
• It places various functions which a town has to perform in physical
relationship of each other so as to avoid the chances of mutual conflict
17. Necessity of development plan:
• to control the development of various industries in a systematic way,
• to discourage the growth of town in an unplanned and unscientific way;
• to give a perspective picture of a fully developed town;
• to limit to a certain extent the unprecedented flow of rural population to the
urban area;
• to offset the evils which have come up due to over- crowding of population
such as acute shortage of houses , traffic congestion, inadequate open spaces
and insufficiency in public amenities; etc.
