By Mr.
Anil Pharande, Chairman – Pharande Spaces
Planning is an inalienable component of real
estate development. This is why buildings are engineered, not built randomly.
While developing a project, this means that the
builder follows a pre-determined design provided by an architect, who has based
his/her design on proven engineering principles.
This planning ensures that the building’s
structure has a prescribed foundation depth and distributes weight uniformly so
that it can withstand internal & external stresses.
Larger townships..!
The engineering aspect of project design also
ensures that living units are proportionate and that the available space within
them is optimally used.
In a residential complex, the planning aspect is
extrapolated beyond individual buildings. The architect’s job is to engineer
the project in such a manner than the buildings are distributed according to
plan across the plot, and that open spaces, parking spaces, internal roads and
common utilities are exactly where they are supposed to be.
In larger townships, the planning aspect becomes
even more involved because of the larger area.
Planned Cities..!
All these are expected factors when it comes to
real estate projects. But when such detailed planning is applied to an entire
city, its benefits are vastly magnified.
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| Anil Pharande, Chairman – Pharande Spaces |
Architects, engineers, town planners, government
agencies & builders / promoters approach the development of the whole city
as though it were one large integrated complex.
Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation..
This takes a huge amount of planning,
coordination, investment and effort, but the results are obviously worth it.
This is how the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) came into being.
This is what sets it apart from other cities and
into the same bracket as other planned municipalities like Chandigarh.
Today, the PCMC is a model city which is the
result of careful planning of economic, social and real estate development.
Unlike in the other regions in Pune, PCMC’s town planning authorities have
scrupulously shielded the city from the ad-hoc development that has paralyzed
the rest of Pune.
The futuristic thinking and high vigilance that
has been employed in developing this region has resulted in an avant-garde
satellite city which adds a whole new dimension to the Pune’s real estate
market.
Planned Cities Which Began Well And Ended In
Chaos..!
From the start, planning authorities of the PCMC
were determined not to repeat the mistakes committed in other cities which were
originally meant to be immaculately planned municipalities.
They started off on the right note, but the
planning aspect soon decayed and gave way to the kind of unregulated growth
that has destroyed the urban fabric of most Indian cities today. Some of the
examples of failed attempts to produce planned municipalities in India are:
West India..
Navi Mumbai, Kalyan-Dombivili and Virar-Vasai
belts
North India..!
The Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Faridabad-Greater
Noida corridor
South India..!
Bangalore’s Devanhalli and Yelahanka and
Chennai’s Siruseri and Sriperumbadur belts
East India..!
Kolkata’s Rajarhat-Batanagar-Kalyani belt.
In each of the above cases, what had begun as a
regulated real estate development process soon turned to a commercial
expansion. PCMC on the other hand, adopted a smarter blueprint from the start.
No scope had been given to nearsighted development.
PCMC was always meant to be the city of the
future where residents could enjoy the benefits of 100% infrastructure-based,
community-oriented real estate planning and development.
Real Estate Demand Drivers In PCMC..!
Demand for residential real estate in a successful
satellite city is created when there is a right balance of infrastructure, a
stress-free lifestyle and employment opportunities.
Additionally, there has to be good connectivity
to the parent city.
In context of PCMC, these are:
* Road and rail connecticity to Pune
* Its highly-planned business and industrial
zones create countless new jobs every year
* Infrastructure is vastly superior when compared
to Central Pune
* Real estate development is strictly dictated by
a pre-planned urbanization model that ensures high living standards for all
PCMC is a perfect example of how satellite cities
can surpass the central city. Here, the retail, commercial and residential
markets work together symbiotically to create a winning proposition for end
users and investors alike. When compared to Pune, PCMC has a much higher
availability of green spaces, superior social fabric and vastly better
infrastructure.
Thanks to better land availability, PCMC also
provides the most opportunities for real estate developers to create large
integrated townships, which have are nothing short of a blessing for Pune’s
residents.
About The Author...
Mr. Anil Pharande is Chairman of Pharande Spaces,
a leading construction and development firm that develops township properties
in Western Pune. Pharande Promoters & Builders, the flagship company of
Pharande Spaces and an ISO 9001-2000 certified company, is a pioneer in the
PCMC area offering a diverse range of real estate products catering especially
to the 42 sectors of Pradhikaran.
The luxury township Puneville at Punavale in West
Pune is among the company's latest premium offerings.
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