COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN - Puri District

4.5 Detailed analysis of the Land uses for the main urban centersComprehensive Development Plan – PKDA 2031The individual land uses and their details are analyzed in this section for the entire PKDA Region, and the twomain urban centres – Puri Town and Konark NAC.4.5.1 Residential DevelopmentThe total existing residential development in the PKDA area covers 6.91 Sq.km of the total area. Thedevelopment is concentrated in the Puri urban area. The growth is radial outwards from the JagannathTemple. There are small hamlets showing low density residential development along NH -230 and other majorroads. Around the UNESCO protected Konark temple there are clusters of residential development are found.The existing Residential Land Use comprises of Planned / plotted houses Multi Storied Housing Project housing / housing schemes / quarters Irregular layout / varying plot size houses Clustered settlement / engulfed villages in urban areas Slums / Squatters Scattered HousesThe map below shows the detailed extent of residential development in the PKDA Region, Puri Urban Areaand Konark NAC area. Within the Puri town, large cluster of residential development is near Swargadwaraarea, south of Jagannath Temple. Other large hamlet of the same kind is towards north near AtharnalaBridge.The residential development along the Swargadwara area and around the Jagannath Temple, primarilycomprise of irregular layout/varying plot sizes (24.65% of the total residences in Puri Urban area). Towardsthe Gundicha temple and towards the Atharnala Bridge the residential development is comprised ofQuarters/Project housing/Housing scheme which sums up to 26.36% of the total residential area in the urbanareas of Puri. Thus it is evident that the households initially developed during the growth of Puri were aroundthe Jagannath temple, comprised of houses with irregular layouts and varying plot sizes.The area has considerably less area under slums. Most of the houses of the fishermen community by the seashore are found to be “kutcha” and in dilapidated condition (constituting to 16.43%) with some of the slumsare also concentrated on both the sides of the railway station. Apart from the above mentioned categories ofresidential development, planned/plotted houses have a major share (24.04%); they are located along theGrand road and towards the Atharnala Bridge.Fig 4.7: Existing Development along Marine DriveCEPT, Ahmedabad 74