STRATEGIES

Limited green space

Public housing colony has 0.46 km2 area and area allotted for green space is only 3.71% which is not sufficient for the population of 10,000. The green spaces provided in the Gujarat Housing Board are very less and some of the spaces are encroached by the illegal tenants. Green spaces provided inside the GHB are either not properly maintained or are covered by many illegal tenants. The closest park outside GHB is around 2.5 km from GHB. So, it is very important to manage land which is allocated for park and more spaces should be carved from GHB for parks and playgrounds.

3.71% green spaces

To address the issues mentioned above, our key idea is to redevelop public housing into higher density community with newer buildings, more green spaces, better infrastructure facilities and good roads

There are four distinct strategiesto implement this vision

1. Providing housing for current habitation (including illegal tenants)

There are total of 4478 units present in Housing colony of Chandkheda which has total of population around 40,000 from that around 2000 units are illegal constructed. The space occupied by this tenant are encroached on roads and open green area. Redevelopment of housing colony will have more household units having more unit size area which can occupy more people with good infrastructure facilities

3. Improving area under green spaces

Gujarat housing board has 0.46 km2 area and area allotted for green space is only 3.71% which is not prominent for the population of around 20,000 and green spaces provided inside the GHB is either not properly maintained or it is covered by many illegal tenants

2. Improve street connectivity especially linking to TOD

The redevelopment project will have roads which are good in condition and will have better connectivity from IOC road to Janta-nagar road, and even new streets will also get laid in the GHB. New street network laid will have street hierarchy and the amount of green spaces are also constructed by allocating land inside the block

4. Financing redevelopment from selling of units

The redevelopment strategy will have around 7000 residential household units and 180 around commercial+ retail units. The 250-meter land along the SH-41 comes under TOD this makes the Housing colony a very prominent land to promote commercial activities so the idea is to develop commercial unit along TOD and then sell those unit. Revenue generated from that will foster development in constructing of the household units.