The Punjab government has completely banned commercialisation on 20 roads in LDA residential areas falling in different housing schemes in line with the new commercialisation policy recently notified by the department of housing & urban development and public health engineering. Most of the roads fall in Johar Town
and Sabzazar schemes. Other roads facing ban include from Multan Road to Naqsha Stop, Khiabaneh Jinnah Road starting from Shaukat Khanam Hospital and Raiwind Road.
All illegal commercial buildings already constructed on 20 roads will also be pulled down in different phases. No one will be allowed to convert these residential areas in commercial venues in future. Sources revealed that decision to ban commercialisation on the roads was taken during the meeting of commercialisation committee headed by Lahore Division Commissioner Khusru Pervaiz. LDA DG Shahid Mehmood, Chief Metropolitan Planner Aftab Ahmed Khan, DCO Lahore Sajjad Ahmed Bhutta, LDA Director Town Planner Abdul Qauyum Sheikh, Khalid Mehmood Sheikh, CDGL District Officer Muzamil Ishtiaq and other
officers attended the meeting. The sources informed that after 2-year ban, the Punjab government had announced new commercialisation policy. Before the ban, a comprehensive survey was conducted to collect information about commercial
buildings, markets and business institutions on 58 roads that belonged to housing schemes in LDA controlled areas.
Authority concerned has declared 58 roads as commercial in the controlled areas of the Lahore Development Authority. Under the new commercialisation policy, buildings and plots around the 58 roads will be commercialised. New commercialisation will be allowed with maximum 4 kanal and minimum 2 kanal size of plots on these roads. Out of total roads, 10 roads are predominantly residential areas while 48 roads are predominantly already commercialised.
The 58 roads declared commercial included Main Boulevard Gulberg, Stadium Road Gulberg-III, MM Alam Road (from Main Boulevard to Firdous Market) Gulerbg-III, Syed Hussain Shheed Soharwardi Road (Main Boulevard New Garden Town), College Road Gulberg (From Sherpao Bridge to Main Boulevard Gulberg), Main
Market Road upto Plot No 40-F (Gulberg-II), Park Road Gulberg to Firdous Market up to Jinnah Bridge, Gurumangat Road, Road from PACE to ChenOne Junction (Gulberg III), Shabbir Ahmed Usmani Road (from Y Juntion Gardne Town to Maulana Shaukat Ali Road) Ferozepur Road (from Canal Bridge to Hadiara Drain), Jail Road/ Gulberg Road (from Ferozepur Road to Sherpao Bridge), Multan Road (from Chowk Yateem Khana to Defence Road), Wahdat Road (Muslim side upto T Junction to Multan Road both sides), Raiwind Road (from Thokar Niaz Baig to Defence Road Junction Manoo Chowk), road bebind Liberty Market (starting from wasa Tubewell to Stadium Road opposite to Liberty Mosque), Tollinton Market Shadman Road (starting from LOS Chowk to Jail Road Junction), Link MM Alam Road Tariq Road (starting from property No 9-C/II Gulberg-III to 75-C/II Gulberg-III), Link Road Main Boulevard Garden Town (starting from Civic Centre Garden to Model Town, Link Road Main Market Gulberg-II (starting from property No 11 to Block F to Property No 12 Block G Gulberg-II), Qazi M Esa Road (Link from Maulana Shaukat Ali Road to Abu-Ul-Hassan Isfahani Road, Faisal
Town), Road starting from Firdous Market to 37 Block-J Gulberg-III, UBD Canal Thokar Niaz Baig to Denfence Road along the Canal, Campus Bridge Road, Sher Shah Road (Gujjarpura), Main Boulevard Shadbagh, Main Boulevard Allama Iqbal Town Phase-I, Abul Hassan Isfahani Road (from round about Faisal Town to Akbar Chowk), Maulana Shaukat Ali Road (from canal to Railway Line), Main Boulevard (Gulshan Ravi Scheme), Chauburgi Development Scheme Road, Main Road Shadman Colony, Poonch Road, Mian Road Shadman (from More Samnabad to Roundabout Ghazali Road), approaching road Tajpura (from Canal to Main Scheme Tajpura), College Road Quaid-e-Azam, Hamdard Jail Road, Bagrian Road, Road starting from Civic centre to
Bagrian Chowk (Quaid-e-Azam Town), Model Town Link Road, Defence Road, Link MM Alam Road (starting from plot No 10), part of road starting from Plot No 5 to New Garden Town, Road starting from Raiwing Road Fatima Mosque to Atchison College Scheme Gate, Hali Road Gulberg III, Race Course Road facing Shadman
Scheme plot, Zafar Ali Road, Daul Carriage Way MA Johar Town, Canal Bank Road (from Dharampura Bridge to Thokar Niaz Baig), Mian Boulevard MA Johar Town (from UBD Canal Doctor Hospital to Khokhar Chowk), Main Boulevard MA Johar Town (from Maulana Shaukat Ali carriage way Shaukat Khanum Hospital), Main
Boulevard MA Johar Town (UBD canal to Nursery Block), Main Boulevard Sabzazaar Scheme, Shah Jilani Road, AL-Madina Road, Main Boulevard Nuresery Road PIA Housing Scheme, Canal Bank Road from Dharampura to Thokar Niaz Baig and Khayaban-e-Jinnah Road.
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