Final Land Use Plan of District Peshawar
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2017 Urban Policy and Planning Unit – Provincial Land Use Plan (PLUP) Planning and Development Department Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Final Land Use Plan of District Peshawar IZHAR & ASSOCIATES CONSULTING Lalazar consultants Engineering services consultants Flat No. 306A, 3rd Floor, City Tower, Jamrud Road, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkwa Telephone# +91 5853753 Mobile# 92-321-4469322 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This document –Land Use Plan of District Peshawar, is a building block for preparing Provincial Land Use Strategy for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It was a gigantic task which not only integrated data base of all sectors and their existing issues but also contains important suggestions and recommendations for spatial, economic and social sector development. Our efforts could not fruition without the guidance of Mr. Israr-ul-Haq, Executive Director Urban Policy Unit KPK, who facilitated the Consultants in finalization of the plan and deserves special thanks. We are also grateful to Mr. Adnan Saleem, Senior Urban Planner Urban Policy Unit, and Mr. Afrasiyab Khattak, M&E Unit, for devoting their precious time in resolving different issues. Ms. Fareen Qazi, GIS specialist PLUP, was actively involved in this project right from the inception of this assignment and provided valuable inputs towards GIS mapping. We are also grateful to other PLUP staff especially Mr. Wajidullah Mohmand and Mr. Bilal Muhammad, Urban Planners who coordinated and facilitated consultants’ team and for their valuable comments which helped to enrich the District Land Use Plans. We also thank other officials of Urban Policy Unit, Planning and Development Department and various line departments for extending all cooperation and support for completion of this Final Land Use Plan for District Peshawar. Last but need the least, we are also obliged to the members of our team who have made extensive input in sifting through the piles of records, collected valuable information from field & other sources analyzed it, and prepared GIS base maps, and final Land Use maps for this project. In the end we would like to mention here that we are proud of providing our consultancy services for this Project to the Government of KPK who is the pioneer in initiating District Land Use Plans in the Country. Izahar ul Haq Team Leader i LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1-1: Preparation of Base Maps ....................................................................................... 4 Figure 1-2: District Studies Report ............................................................................................. 5 Figure 1-3: Land Use Plans ......................................................................................................... 5 Figure 1-4: Peshawar SCARP Program ..................................................................................... 38 Figure 1-5: Canal Supplies ........................................................................................................ 40 Figure 1-6: Distrcit Peshwar Salinity Percentage ..................................................................... 45 Figure 1-7: District Land Use Plan and Economic Development ............................................. 57 Figure 1-8: Demography and Land Use.................................................................................... 59 Figure 2-1: Land Use Distribution ............................................................................................ 68 Figure 2-2: Existing Land Use ................................................................................................... 71 Figure 2-3: Land Use Distribution- Urban Area ....................................................................... 73 Figure 2-4: Land Use Distribution- Northern Zone .................................................................. 76 Figure 2-5: Land Use Distribution- Southren Zone .................................................................. 77 Figure 3-1: Population Forcasts of District Peshawar .............................................................. 84 Figure 3-2: Age-Sex Distibution of District Peshawar .............................................................. 84 Figure 4-1: Hierarchy of Urban Settlements in Greater Peshawar Region .............................. 90 Figure 4-2: Growth Rates of Urban Settlements in Peshawar Valley ...................................... 92 Figure 4-3: Centers and their Spheres ................................................................................... 101 Figure 4-4: Peshawar Region Heirarchy of Settlements ........................................................ 112 Figure 5-1: Work Force in Trade and Commerce ................................................................... 156 Figure 5-2: Running and Closed Indsutrial Units ................................................................... 191 Figure 5-3: Average Wind Directions in District Peshawar .................................................... 239 Figure 7-1: Proposed Structure .............................................................................................. 263 Figure 7-2: Land Records and Development Potential .......................................................... 265 ii LIST OF TABLES Table 1-1: Climatological Normal for Peshawar, Pakistan (1981-2010) .................................... 8 Table 1-2: Air Quality ............................................................................................................... 17 Table 1-3 Mean Result of Drinking Water Samples for Peshawar ........................................... 20 Table 1-4: Noise Level of Different Samples for Peshawar ..................................................... 24 Table 1-5: Impact of Flood in Peshawar District ...................................................................... 32 Table 1-6: Areas Affected/ Liable to Flooding ......................................................................... 33 Table 1-7: Pumpage, Median Specific Capacity, Utilization (%) And Canal Supplies, SCARP Peshawar .................................................................................................................................. 39 Table 1-8: Salinity Classes ........................................................................................................ 44 Table 1-9: Salt Affected Lands (Mha) ....................................................................................... 44 Table 1-10: Water Logged Areas in the Districts ..................................................................... 46 Table 2-1: Land Use Distribution in Housing Scheme .............................................................. 66 Table 2-2: Land Use Distribution in Industrial Estates ............................................................. 67 Table 2-3: Land Use Distribution at Town/City Level (500,000+ Population) ......................... 67 Table 2-4: Existing Land Use Areas- Overall District ................................................................ 70 Table 2-5: Existing Land Use Areas- Peshawar Urban Area ..................................................... 72 Table 2-6: Existing Land Use Areas-Nothren Zone .................................................................. 75 Table 2-7: Land Use Distribution- Southren Zone ................................................................... 77 Table 3-1: Past Growth Trends ................................................................................................ 79 Table 3-2: District Population – Migration Vs Natural Increase .............................................. 80 Table 3-3: Transient Population ............................................................................................... 81 Table 3-4: Change in Growth Rates (1972/81) to (1981/98) ................................................... 81 Table 3-5: Population Forecasts Under Different Models ....................................................... 83 Table 4-1: Charcteristic-wise Distribution of Score ................................................................. 87 Table 4-2: Hierarchy of Settelments Score-wise ...................................................................... 88 Table 4-3: Urban Settlements: District Peshawar Vs. Peshawar Valley .................................. 91 Table 4-4: Growth Pattern of Urban Settlements in Peshawar Valley before 2013 LGA ........ 92 Table 4-5: Village/Neighbourhood Council Population of District Peshawar, 2017 ................ 94 Table 5-1: Gross Population Densities ................................................................................... 121 Table 5-2: Union Councils Likely to Urbanize by 2037 ........................................................... 124 iii Table 5-3: Housing Demand for Additional Population in the District Peshawar ................. 126 Table 5-4: Current Housing Backlog ....................................................................................... 126 Table 5-5: Approved Private Housing Schemes ..................................................................... 127 Table 5-6: Existing Housing Stock in District Peshawar ......................................................... 128 Table 5-7: Housing Demand Urban-Rural Split ...................................................................... 129 Table 5-8: Area Required For Housing (Hectares) ................................................................. 130 Table 5-9: Motor Vehicles Registered in District Peshawar .................................................. 132 Table