Deccan Local Area Plan, Pune | Urban Planning Portfolio | CEPT

Deccan Context -

Pune is one of the most progressive cities and most livable city in India. It's known as Oxford of the East and Cultural Capital of Maharashtra. The Study area deccan which studio focuses on lies in the inner west side of the Pune along mutha river. Currently Pune has a multi nuclei nature where major work centers are distributed overall the city. Deccan is one of the oldest CBDs and prime location in Pune. It is also one of the must visit places & institutional & Cultural hub of Pune. Due to the existing mixed use character, central location and good connectivity with other centers Deccan has a great potential to develop as a public oriented city Centre. So the core idea of this LAP is to bring back the focus to Deccan CBD.

Deccan is also known as new Pune as it's a first developed area beyond the old city & river & now established as prime neighborhood over the years. The area is surrounded by famous localities like Shivajinagar, Prabhat road and old peths. Deccan is one of the major node and is well connected to urban work centers in the city. & most of the hubs are within the 10 km radius. To meet the future travel demand and for efficient connectivity HCMTR line and metro is proposed in Pune. Deccan area has 5 metro stations. UERP studio aims to reconsider micro-level planning of Deccan by means of a local area plan to provide a contextualized scheme which caters to the needs of the area.

Redevelopment Potential

We have addressed redevelopment potential through the following factors. Potential is high if consumed FSI is low; plots with higher land prices indicate high demand in thus a high potential; smaller plots are likely to be amalgamated to gain a higher potential and buildings above 30 years of age are likely to be redevelopment in near future. Plots under PSP are mainly long-established educational institutes that are less likely to be redeveloped. Thus, plots near JM road and congress house road have a higher redevelopment potential. So Deccan has a great potential to utilize and absorb the newer development in near future due to the upcoming projects like metro, riverfront, bicycle program.

Vision

“The Deccan- LAP envisions to capture and retain the inherent character of Deccan Area and transform it into an enhanced urban core while responding to the future development potentials.”

Learnings

This studio exercise made us to understand various challenges in the implementation of local area plan and the detailed forces of land reconstitution process and costing part for the same. The studio exercise was carried provoking us to embrace the liberal and market demand approach yet keeping a firm knowledge of the real life scenario of the proposed outcomes. Local Area Plan mechanism - Micro-level planning gave detailed understanding of different layers including land, realestate, environment, transport, infrastructure, cost and recovery etc.