PART I EXTRAORDINARY

MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION & URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

(M)

Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department – Common Zoning

Regulations - 2026 – Final Notification - superseding the G.O.Ms.No.216 of

MA&UD Dept., dt:22.10.2025 - Orders – Issued.

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[G.O.Ms.No.157, Municipal Administration & Urban Development (M)

Department, 17^th July, 2026]

APPENDIX

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 44 (1) of the Andhra

Pradesh (Andhra Area) Town Planning Act,1920; section 16 read with section

10(ii) of AP Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014 and section 118

read with section 5(5)(b) of the Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban

Development Authorities Act, 2016, the following Common Zoning Regulations

are hereby published duly superseding the G.O.Ms.No.216 of MA&UD Dept.,

dt:22.10.2025.

COMMON ZONING REGULATIONS – 2026

I. INTRODUCTION

Zoning Regulations

A Master plan or Development Plan or General Town Planning (GTP) Scheme

is a general plan for the future development of a city / any settlement

showing both, the existing and proposed streets or roads, open spaces,

public buildings, residential, commercial areas etc. and shows various land

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use zones intended for development. Master Plan is a statutory document

prepared under the provisions and procedures prescribed under the relevant

Acts appended with the Zoning Regulations is the legal instrument for

implementing the land use policy as proposed in the Master Plan. Zoning

Regulations contains a set of guidelines with regard to the permissibility of

the right use and the correct location of each zone duly prohibiting the

conflicting uses in order to achieve the objective of the Master Plan for

orderly development of a given settlement.

Zoning is a planning control tool for regulating the built environment and

creating functional real estate markets. It does so by dividing land that

comprises the statutory area of a ULB into different zones, permitting

particular land use on specific sites to shape the layout of towns and cities

and enable various types of development. It determines the location, size,

and use of buildings and decides the density of city blocks.

Need of the Zoning Regulations:

The Master Plans for various urban settlements along their vicinity areas

have been prepared at different times for the past several years in the State.

Zoning Regulations along with the Master Plans are also issued. It has been

observed that some of the Land Use Zone Categories of the Master Plans

have been shown differently in each of the Master Plans without following a

uniform pattern. Due to this, there are different set of zoning regulations for

different Master Plans creating complexity in understanding its applicability.

This has led to difficulty among the general public, License Technical

Personnel and also among the implementing agencies. Presently, the

building permissions are issued through the Online Building Permission

System (OBPS) on a single platform in the State. Therefore, it is difficult to

customize all zoning regulations on a single platform. Hence, there is an

immediate need to develop common zoning regulations for the entire State

and this will help to avoid manual interpretation and intervention in the

application of the zoning regulations.

Zoning regulations from other states were also reviewed in the process of

preparing

Zoning

regulations.

States

Odisha,

Uttar

Pradesh,

Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu were taken as

basis to prepare negative list of land uses.

II. Rationalisation of Land Use Categories of master plans

A systematic approach has been followed to rationalize the land uses of

Master Plans which include-

(a) Comprehensive assessment to understand the commonalities of zones of

each Master Plan already approved.

(b) Review of existing land use zones of other metro cities Master /

Development Plans.

(d) Consultations with town planning experts and officials of line

departments.

After rationalising the land uses, the following 9 Land Use Zones are

proposed for the Master Plan area duly merging the legacy uses of already

approved Masterplans.

Proposed Land Use Categories of Master Plan:

The categories of land uses proposed in the Master Plan are as follows:

LAND USE ZONES PROPOSED IN MASTER PLAN

S.N

Land Use Zone

Category

Remarks

Legacy Land uses

included within the

land use category

Residential Use

Zone

(R)

All

Sub-uses

are included

a. Residential land use

b. Urbanisable areas

Commercial Use

Zone

(C)

a. Local Commercial

b. Central Commercial

c. General Commercial

d. Urbanisable areas

Public and Semi

Public Use

(PS)

All

Sub-uses

are included

a. Government and semi

Government facilities

b. Educational facilities

c. Health facilities

d. Religious facilities

e. Crematorium/

Burial

Ground/ Graveyard

f. Urbanisable areas

g. Parks and gardens

h. Play

grounds

and

stadiums

i. Open spaces, Water

courses

Recreational

Use

Zone

( RE)

a. Parks and gardens

b. Play

grounds

and

stadiums

c. Geological parks and

green buffers

d. Tourism SEZ

e. Open spaces, Water

courses

Industrial

Use

Zone

(I)

a. Green, white red and

orange

category

industries

b. Quarry

c. Ash pond

d. Crematorium

under

blue

industrial

category

e. Urbanisable areas

a) Work Centre

Zone (White

Green Blue

category

Industries)

b) Red

and

Orange

category

Industries

Transportation

Use Zone

(T)

All

Sub-uses

are included

Transportation

and

communication use

Mixed Use Zone

(M)

a. Mixed use zone -1

b. Mixed

Use

Zone-2

(BAIA)

c. Mixed

Use

Zone-3

(BAIA)

d. Mixed

Use

Zone-4

(BAIA)

e. Urbanisable area

Agriculture

Use

Zone

(A)

a. Agriculture use zone

b. Mango orchards

c. Urbanisable areas

Development

Restricted Zones

a. Special area use zone

b. Protected Use Zones

(Green, Blue, Hills &

Forest,

Wild

life

Sanctuary,

Eco

Sensitive

Zones,

Buffer,

Zoological

Park,

Parks,

Sea,

River accreted land,

Rocky, Water Bodies,

Specific

Land-use,

Mining/Quarry,

Heritage

and

conservation, Hillock,

Saltpan Areas)

Special Area Use

Zone

(SA)

Includes

Heritage

Buildings

identified

under

NMA

Act,

Archaeologica

sites

historical

importance

and Precincts,

Defence

Military lands

etc.

b) Protected

Use Zone

(Green, Blue, Hills

and Forest)

(PR)

includes

Water Bodies

(Rivers,

Nalas,

Reservoirs

and Kuntas),

III. Short Title, Scope, Extent & Commencement

3.1 Title

These Regulations shall be called the “Common Zoning Regulations –

2026” of Andhra Pradesh prepared under the provisions of relevant Acts

in the State of Andhra Pradesh (herein after referred to as "Common

Zoning Regulations-2026").

3.2 Scope of the Common Zoning Regulations

The scope of these "Common Zoning Regulations" shall be limited to

defining Land Use Zones and the activities permissible in each land use

zone depicted in the Proposed Land Use Plan forming part of the Master

Plans. Other aspects of development will be governed by relevant Building

Rules, Layout Rules etc. issued by the Government from time. Competent

Authorities under such regulations shall ensure that the developments

permitted by them are in conformity with these Zoning Regulations and

building rules in force

3.3 Applicability and Jurisdiction of the Common Zoning Regulations

a. These Common Zoning Regulations will supersede all the existing zoning

regulations related to all Master Plans/ZDP/GTP except capital city.

b. No development activity like layout, land pooling scheme, building activity

or use of any land shall be permitted unless these are in conformity with

the Master Plan land use, circulation network and the zoning of the uses

and activities as given in these regulations.

c. These regulations however will not prohibit the continuance of existing

uses of lands and buildings that have been lawfully established and have

a valid development permission obtained from the competent authorities

as required under the prevailing statutory provisions and these Zoning and

Development Promotion regulations, provided that no expansion of the

existing non-conforming use or activity shall be permissible provided such

conformed use is dangerous to life.

d. All the layouts approved by the competent authorities as required under

the prevailing statutory provisions or plots / layouts regularized by prior to

these regulations and change of land use affected by government in the

immediate preceding notified Master Plan from time to time shall continue

to prevail irrespective of the land use zone proposed in the Master Plan.

Eco Sensitive

Areas

and

CRZ areas)

3.4 Date of Commencement

These regulations shall come into force on such date as notified by the

Government. The implementation and enforcement of the Master Plan

shall be in accordance with the Common Zoning Regulations herein

prescribed.

Wherever any land use other than proposed uses is existed, clubbed with

the relevant categories for implementation purpose till the revision of

Master plans is taken up.

IV. DEFINITIONS

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the definition

given as under shall have the meaning indicated against each term. Words

and expressions not defined in these regulations shall have the same

meaning or sense as in the Andhra Pradesh Town Planning Act, 1920, Andhra

Pradesh Municipalities Act 1965, Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations Act,

1994, Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014,

Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban Development Authorities

Act, 2016, Andhra Pradesh Building Rules 2017, AP Layout Rules 2017 as

amended from time to time as defined in the National Building Code as the

case may be, unless the context otherwise requires. All amendments /

modifications made in the aforesaid regulations shall automatically stand

deemed to have been included as part of these rules.

(i)

“Accessory Use” means any use of the premises subordinate to the

principal use and customarily incidental to the principal use.

(ii)

“Act” means the Andhra Pradesh Town Planning Act, 1920, Andhra

Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority Act, 2014 and Andhra

Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban Development Authorities Act,

2016.

(iii)

“Amenities” includes club house, convention halls, educational,

commercial facilities, crèche, gymnasium, Mixed use (Combination of

uses other than industrial use) etc.,

(iv)

“Banquet Hall” means a premises or part thereof used or intended to be

used for hosting social, cultural, ceremonial, or corporate gatherings such

as weddings, receptions, parties, conferences, or similar events, where

food and beverages are served. Such premises may include ancillary

facilities such as kitchen, dining area, storage, and service areas, and

may be operated with or without catering services. The activity shall not

include lodging accommodation except as permitted in conjunction

with a hotel use.

(v)

“Buffer area” means

(a) an area of land separating adjacent land uses that is managed for

the purpose of mitigating impacts of one use on the other.

(b) an area within which sensitive uses are either restricted or

prohibited.

buffer elements. Buffer element is a natural or artificial feature that

mitigates an adverse impact; a buffer may include open ground, a

vegetation buffer and or acoustic barrier.

(vi)

“Building” means a structure constructed with any materials whatsoever

for any purpose, whether used for human habitation or not and includes-

(a) Foundation, Plinth, Walls, Floors, Chimneys, Plumbing and Building

services, Fixed Platforms etc.

(b) Verandahs, Balconies, Cornices, Projections etc.

(d) Any wall enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space, sign and

outdoor display structures etc.

(e) Tanks constructed or fixed for storage of chemicals or chemicals in

liquid form and for storage of water, effluent, swimming pool, ponds

etc.

(f) All types of buildings defined below shall be considered to be ‘buildings’

except tents, shamianas and tarpaulin shelters erected temporarily for

temporary purposes and ceremonial occasions.

(vii)

“Assembly Building” means a building or part thereof where groups of

people congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, social, religious,

patriotic, civil, travel and similar purposes and includes buildings of drama

and cinema theatres, city halls, town halls, auditoria, exhibition halls,

museums, marriage hall, skating rings, gymnasia, stadia, restaurants,

eating or boarding houses, place of worship, dance halls, clubs,

gymkhanas, road, air, sea or other public transportation stations and

recreation piers.

(viii)

“Business Building" means any building or part thereof used for

transaction of record therefore, offices, banks, all professional

establishments, court houses classified as business buildings if their

principal function is transaction of business and/or keeping of books and

records.

(ix)

"Detached Building" means a building with walls and roofs independent

of any other building and with open spaces on all sides within the same

plot.

(x)

"Farmhouse" means a residential building on agricultural land as may

be permitted by the Competent Authority under these Rules, for use in

connection with agricultural or residential purposes

(xi)

“Semi-Detached Building” means a building having one or more side

attached with wall and roof with other building.

(xii)

“Row House” means a row of houses on adjacent plot with a common

wall with only front, rear and/or interior open spaces. The house at the

end of the row shall however have side open space as prescribed.

(xiii)

"Educational Building" means a building exclusively used for a school

or college, recognized by the appropriate Board or University, or any

other Competent Authority involving assembly for instruction, education

or recreation incidental to educational use, and including a building for

such other user’s incidental thereto such as a library or a research

institution. It shall also include quarters for essential staff required to

reside in the premises, and a building used as a hostel captive to an

educational institution whether situated in its campus or not.

(xiv)

"Hazardous Building" means a building or part thereof used for-

(1) Storage, handling, manufacture or processing or radioactive

substances or of highly combustible or explosive materials or

products which are liable to burn with extreme rapidity and/or

producing poisonous fumes.

(2) Storage, handling, manufacture or processing of which involves

highly corrosive, toxic obnoxious alkalis, acids, or another liquids,

gases or chemicals producing flame, fumes, and explosive mixtures

or which result in division of matter into fine particles capable of

spontaneous ignition.

(xv)

"Heritage Building" means a building possessing architectural,

aesthetic, historic or cultural values which is declared as heritage building

by the concerned department/notified by the competent Authority.

(xvi)

"Heritage Precinct" means an area comprising heritage building or

buildings and precincts thereof or related places.

(xvii)

“Industrial Building” means a building or part thereof wherein products

or, material are fabricated, assembled or processed, such as assembly

plants, laboratories, power plants, refineries, gas plants, mills, dairies and

factories etc. The definition of category of the industry is defined as per

the White, Blue, Green, Orange and Red Category industries as per the

classification of industries prescribed by the Central Pollution Control

Board (CPCB) from time to time.

(xviii)

"Institutional Building” means a building constructed by Government,

Semi-Government organizations, public sector undertakings, registered

Charitable Trusts for their public activities, such as education, medical,

recreational and cultural , hostel for working women or men or for an

auditorium or complex for cultural and allied activities or for an hospice,

care of orphans, abandoned women, children and infants,

convalescents, destitute or aged persons and for penal or

correctional detention with restricted liberty of the inmates ordinarily

providing

sleeping

accommodation,

and

includes

dharamshalas,

hospitals, sanatoria, custodian and penal institutions such as jails,

prisons, mental hospitals, houses of correction, detention and

reformatories building constructed for the promotion of Tourism such as,

stared hotels, clubs, golf course, sport stadium and all activities of Tourist

Unit as may be declared by Government from time to time.

(xix)

"Commercial Building" means a building or part thereof used as shops,

stores or markets, for display and sale of wholesale or retail goods or

merchandise, including office, storage and service facilities incidental

thereto located in the same building.

(xx)

"Office Building" (premises), means a building or premises or part

thereof whose sole or principal use is for an office or for office purposes

or clerical work. Office purposes include the purpose of administration,

clerical work, handling money, telephone, telegraph and computer

operation; and clerical work includes writing, book-keeping, sorting

papers typing, filing, duplicating, punching cards or tapes, machines

calculations, drawing of matter for publication and editorial preparation

of matter of publication.

(xxi)

"Public Building" means a building constructed by Government, Semi

government organizations, public sector undertakings, registered

Charitable Trust or such other organizations for their non-profitable public

activities.

(xxii)

"Residential

Building"

means

building

which

sleeping

accommodation is provided for normal residential purposes, with or

without cooking or dining facilities, and includes one or more family

dwellings, lodging or boarding houses, hostels, dormitories, apartment

houses, flats.

(xxiii)

"Storage Building" means a building or part thereof used primarily for

storage or shelter of goods, merchandise and includes a building used as

a warehouse, cold storage freight depot, transit shed, store house, public

garage, hanger, truck terminal grain elevator, barn and stable.

(xxiv)

"Wholesale establishment" means an establishment wholly or partly

engaged in wholesale trade and manufactures wholesale outlets,

including related storage facilities, warehouses and establishments

engaged

truck

transport,

including

truck

transport

booking

warehouses.

(xxv)

"Developer" means,

(a) a person who constructs or causes to be constructed an independent

building or a building consisting of apartments, or converts an existing

building or a part thereof into apartments, for the purpose of selling

all or some of the apartments to other persons and includes his

assignees; or

(b) a person who develops land into a project, whether or not the person

also constructs structures on any of the plots, for the purpose of selling

to other persons all or some of the plots in the said project, whether

with or without structures thereon; or

allottees of

(1) buildings or apartments, as the case may be, constructed by such

authority or body on lands owned by them or placed at their

disposal by the Government, or

(2) plots owned by such authority or body or placed at their disposal

by the Government, for the purpose of selling all or some of the

apartments or plots; or

(d) an apex State level co-operative housing finance society and a primary

co-operative housing society which constructs apartments or buildings

for its members or in respect of the allottees of such apartments or

buildings; or

(e) any other person who acts himself as a builder, coloniser, contractor,

promoter, estate developer or by any other name or claims to be acting

as the holder of a power of attorney from the owner of the land on

which the building or apartment is constructed or plot is developed for

sale; or

(f) such other person who constructs any building or apartment for sale

to the general public.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this clause, where the person who

constructs or converts a building into apartments or develops a plot for

sale and the persons who sells apartments or plots are different persons,

both of them shall be deemed to be the promoters and shall be jointly

liable as such for the functions and responsibilities specified in these rules;

(xxvi)

“Development” means development with its grammatical variations

means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other

operations in or over, or under land or water or the making of any

material change, in any building or land, or in the use of any building or

land, and includes re-development and layout for sub-division of any

land, and “to develop” shall be construed accordingly.

(xxvii)

“Drain” means a system or a line of pipes, with their fittings and

accessories such as manholes, inspection chambers, traps gullies, floor

traps used for drainage of building or yards appurtenant to the buildings

within the same cartilage. A drain includes an open channel for conveying

surface water or a system for the removal of any liquid.

(xxviii)

“Dwelling” means a building or a portion there of which is designed or

used wholly or principally for residential purposes. This shall not include

boarding or rooming houses, tents, tourist camps, hotels for other

structures designed or used primarily for transient residents.

(xxix)

“Dwelling

Unit”

means

shelter

consisting

residential

accommodation for one family. It is an independent housing unit with

separate facilities for living, cooking and sanitary requirements.

(xxx)

“Enforcement Authority” means the Vice Chairman of the UDAs,

Municipal Commissioners of the ULBs and Panchayat Secretaries of the

respective Gram Panchayats;

(xxxi)

“Existing Building” means use of a building or a structure existing

authorized before the commencement of these Regulations.

(xxxii)

“Existing Use” means use of a building or a structure existing authorized

before the commencement of these Regulations.

(xxxiii)

“Group Development Scheme” is reckoned as development of

buildings for any use in a campus or site of 4000 sq.mt area or more and

could be gated community, row houses, semidetached houses, detached

houses,

apartment

blocks,

[Commercial,

Institutional,

Industrial

buildings] or high rise buildings or mix or combination of the above with

or without customary sub-division of the land by way of individual plots.

(xxxiv)

“Group Housing/Apartment” Means a building having five or more

multiple dwelling units/apartments and common services on a given site

or plot of less than 4,000 sq.mts. in single or multiple blocks each building

containing two or more apartments or with total of five or more

units/apartments, without customary sub-division of land by way of

individual plots.

(xxxv)

“Individual Professional Establishment” means an office or

workspace used by an individual professional such as a doctor, lawyer,

architect, engineer, chartered accountant or consultant, for carrying out

his or her professional practice in a part of a residential building without

changing its residential character.

(xxxvi)

“IT Park” means a premises or area developed and used exclusively or

predominantly for Information Technology (IT) and Information

Technology Enabled Services (ITES) activities, including software

development, data processing, call centres, back-office operations, digital

communication, and related research or design facilities. The premises

may include ancillary support facilities such as training centres, business

incubation spaces, cafeterias, convenience shops, banking counters, and

utility

services

necessary

for

the

functioning

the

IT/ITES

establishments.

(xxxvii)

“Land” includes benefits to arise out of land, things attached to the earth

or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth.

(xxxviii)

“Land Use” means the principal use of land for which a plot of land or

building thereon is used or intended to be used. For the purpose of

classification of a plot according to the land uses, a land use shall deem

to include subsidiary land uses which are contingent upon it.

(xxxix)

“Local Commercial” means premises used for a group of shops

comprising those dealing with day to day requirements, as distinguished

from wholesale trade or shopping without exceeding plot area 500 sq.mts

with 10 mts height.

(xl)

“Neighborhood Centre and Civic Centre” means Neighborhood Centre

and Civic Center shall include following activities such as sectoral

shopping center, market, office building, cinema, small

hospital/Nursing Home (20 beds), playground, swimming pool, Town

hall, open air theatre, civic and cultural facilities, library, higher

secondary school, parking plots, public utility and service building such

as post office, fire station, police station, religious building and building

of public uses.

(xli)

“Non-conforming Building or Use” means a building, structure or use

of land existing at the time of commencement of these regulations and

which does not conform to the regulations pertaining to the zone in which

it is situated.

(xlii)

“Occupancy or Use” means the principal occupancy or use for which a

building or a part of it is used or intended to be used, including contingent

subsidiary occupancies; mixed occupancy building being those in which

more than one occupancy are present in different portions of the building.

(xliii)

“Open Space” means an area, forming an integral part of the site left

open to the sky and includes area left for community purposes.

(xliv)

“Owner” means the person who receives the rent for the use of the land

or building or would be entitled to do so if they were let.

NOTE: The term Owner is synonymous with the term ‘applicant’.

(a) An agency or trustee who receives such rent on behalf of the owner,

(b) A receiver, executor or administrator or manager appointed by any

court of competent jurisdiction to have the charge of or to exercise the

right of the owner,

concerned with any building devoted to religious or charitable purposes,

(d) A mortgage of a lease holder so empowered.

(xlv)

“Parking Space” means an area enclosed or unenclosed, covered or

open, sufficient in size to park vehicles, together with a drive way

connecting the parking space with a street or alley and permitting ingress

and egress of the vehicles.

(xlvi)“Plot” means a portion of land held in single or joint ownership enclosed

by definite boundaries other than the land used, allotted, earmarked or set

apart for any street, lane, passage, pathway, conservancy lane or for any

other public purpose.

(xlvii)“Professional Establishment” means an office or premises used by

professionals such as doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers, chartered

accountants, consultants, or similar persons engaged in providing

professional services in their respective fields. Such use shall be primarily

for consultancy or office purposes and shall not involve industrial,

commercial trading, or retail activities.

(xlviii)

“Road/Street” means any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley,

stairway, passageway, carriageway, footway, square place or bridge,

whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of

passage or access or have passed and had access uninterruptedly

for a specified period, whether existing or proposed in any scheme,

and includes all bunds channels, ditches, storm-water drains, culverts,

sidewalks, traffic islands, road-side trees and, hedges retaining walls,

fences, barriers and railings within the street lines.

(xlix)

“Road/Street-Level or Grade” means the officially established

elevation or grade of the centre line of the street upon which a plot fronts,

and if there is no officially established grade, the existing grade of the

street at its mid-point.

(l)

“Road/Street Line” means the line defining the side limits of a

road/street.

(li)

“Service-Road” means a lane from a wider street provided at the front

of a plot for service purposes.

(lii)

“Utility” means roads, streets, open spaces, parks, recreational grounds,

playgrounds, gardens, water supply, electric supply, street lighting,

drainage, sewerage, public works and other utilities, communication

network, services and convenience.

(liii)

"Warehouse" or “Godown" means a building, the whole or a substantial

part of which is used or intended to be used for the storage of goods

whether for storing or for sale or for any similar purpose. It is neither a

domestic nor a public building, nor merely a shop if so used not a store

attached to and used for the proper functioning of a shop.

(liv)

"Water Course" means a natural channel or an artificial channel formed

by draining or diversion of a natural channel meant for carrying storm

and waste water.

(lv)

“Zonal Development Plan” means a plan detailing out the proposals of

Master Plan/Development Plan prepared under the provisions of the Act.

V. Land Use Zones wise Prohibited Activities

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

1. Residential

1. Polluting Industries (APPCB)

1. 1. Orange/Red category industries as notified by AP

Pollution Control Board (APPCB) from time to time

1. 2. Green industries in extent more than 1000 Sq.

mt.

2. Animal Processing

2. 1. Slaughterhouses

2. 2. Dairy, poultry, animal breeding center, bird, fish

farms, beekeeping, pisciculture, hatcheries,

piggeries, cattle grounds

2. 3. Dairy farming, milk processing

2. 4. Piggery

2. 5. Stock yards related to animal

2. 6. Meat processing unit

2. 7. Livestock rearing

2. 8. Processing of farm products

3. Hazardous Storage

3. 1. Hazardous/inflammable/perishables godowns

3. 2. Gas godowns/Combustion, Godown/storage of

Inflammable items/ Chemical other such

industrial products

3. 3. Storage of Fertiliser and Pesticide

3. 4. Buildings with hazardous storage

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

3. 5. Oil depot

4. Heavy Infrastructure

4. 1. Ready mix plants, pre-cast cement industries

4. 2. Quarrying gravel, sand/clay/stone crushers,

4. 3. All Mining activities

4. 4. Weigh bridges

4. 5. Oil rotaries, mills, rice mills

4. 6. Ice and freezing plants with power exceeding 20

HPEM

4. 7. Ripening chambers

4. 8. Printing press exceeding 20 HPEM

4. 9. Broadcasting/telecom stations

5. Large Public Assembly

5. 1. Multiplexes

5. 2. Shopping Malls

5. 3. Local commercial shops to an extent of more

than 500 sq.m of plot area and 10m height

including commercial complexes

5. 4. Outdoor games stadium/sports stadiums

5. 5. Exhibition grounds, Circus, other shows, public

gathering (concerts, etc.)

5. 6. Stand-alone cinemas/theatres, Bars, pubs

5. 7. Banquets/Convention

centres,

Function

halls/Kalyana mandapams more than 500 sq.mt

plot area)

5. 8. ITI, Colleges (polytechnic, Degree, engineering,

medical), higher educational institutions (other

than up to higher secondary schools), Technical

institutions, research institutions, University,

Medical College.

5. 9. Hotels and Resorts

6. Contagion Medical

6. 1. Hospitals and health exceeding 20 beds

6. 2. Veterinary hospitals

6. 3. Any hospital treating contagious diseases

6. 4. Sanatoriums

6. 5. Bio-informatics centers

7. Nuisance/Disposal

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

7. 1. Junk yards

7. 2. Garbage dumping yards/grounds, MRF facilities

7. 3. Timber/coal/wood depots

7. 4. Saw mills

7. 5. Sewage farms/garbage/sewage disposal/landfill

sites, compost plants,

7. 6. Storage of building materials for whole sale

business

7. 7. Reclaimed quarry lands, Compost plant, Landfill

Sites, Dumping Ground, Material Recovery

Facilities (MRF), Bio-Medical / Municipal Waste /

Demolition, tanneries, animal hides disposal and

marketing facilities.

8. Heavy Transport/Logistics

8. 1. Truck/Bus terminals

8. 2. Warehousing/godowns/wholesale mandis/

wholesale markets/Trade / Wholesale business,

Auction Market, Wholesale centres for Agriculture

produce.

8. 3. Goods/logistic hubs & Parks /loading and

unloading spaces/ cold storage

8. 4. Automobile service stations

8. 5. Workshops servicing/ repairs/ buses/ trucks/

welding exceeding 50HP

8. 6. Container terminals

8. 7. Professional offices/IT with more than 500 sqmt

plot area

8. 8. Computer hardware manufacturing

8. 9. Showroom motor vehicles/machineries

8. 10. Broad casting, telecasting

8. 11. Data Centres

8. 12. Airport, Heliport, Flying Club, Flying training

institutes

2. Commercial

1. Polluting industries

1. 1. Orange/Red category industries as prescribed by

AP Pollution Control Board (APPCB) other than

hotels.

2. Animal processing

2. 1.

Slaughterhouses

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

2. 2. Dairy, poultry, animal breeding center, bird, fish

farms, beekeeping/pisciculture, hatcheries,

piggeries, cattle grounds

2. 3. Dairy farming, milk processing

2. 4. Piggery

2. 5. Stock yards related to animal

2. 6. Meat processing unit

2. 7. Livestock rearing

2. 8. Processing of farm products with more than 300

sq.mt plot area.

3. Hazardous Storage

3. 1. Hazardous/inflammable/perishables godowns

3. 2. Gas godowns/Combustion, Storage of

Inflammable items/ Chemical other such

industrial products

3. 3. Storage of Fertiliser and Pesticide

3. 4. Buildings with hazardous storage

3. 5. Oil depot

4. Heavy Infrastructure

4. 1. Ready mix plants, pre-cast cement industries,

ready mix concrete plants

4. 2. Quarrying gravel, sand/clay/stone crushers,

4. 3. Reclaimed quarry lands

4. 4. Mining

4. 5. Oil rotaries, mills, rice mills

4. 6. Processing and sale of farm products

4.7 Ice and freezing plants with power exceeding 20

HPEM

4.8 Ripening chambers

4.9 Printing press exceeding 20 HPEM

Nuisance/disposal

5. 1. Junk yards

5. 2. Compost yard/Garbage dumping yards/

5. 3. Timber/coal/wood depots

5. 4. Saw mills

5. 5. Compost plant, Landfill Sites, Dumping Ground,

Material Recovery Facilities (MRF), Bio-Medical /

Municipal Waste / Demolition, tanneries, animal

hides disposal and marketing facilities.

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

Heavy Transport/Logistics and Services

6. 1. Truck/Bus terminals

6. 2. Warehousing/Godown exceeding 500 sq.mt plot

area

6. 3. Cold storage exceeding 500 sq.mt plot area

6. 4. Workshops servicing/ repairs/ buses/ trucks/

welding >15 HP

6. 5. Container terminals

6. 6. Computer hardware manufacturing

6. 7. Data Centres

3. Industrial:

a. Work centre Zone -

(White/Green)

Polluting industries

1. 1. Orange/Red category industries as prescribed by

AP Pollution Control Board (APPCB)

Animal processing

2. 1.

Slaughterhouses

2. 2. Dairy, poultry, animal, bird, fish farms,

beekeeping/pisciculture, hatcheries, piggeries,

cattle grounds

2. 3. Dairy farming, milk processing

2. 4. Piggery

2. 5. Stock yards related to animal

2. 6. Meat processing unit

2. 7. Livestock rearing

2. 8. Processing of farm products

Hazardous storage

3. 1.

Hazardous/inflammable/perishables godowns

3. 2.

Gas godowns

3. 3.

Fertiliser, pesticide storage drying

3. 4.

Buildings with hazardous storage

3. 5.

Oil depot, storage petroleum, inflammables

Residential

4. 1.

All Residential activities other than staff quarters,

hostels, dormitories, affordable housing projects

exclusively workers/staff and hotels etc., which

are ancillary to main use subject to location of

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

such activities shall be away from the industrial

activity and ensure safety of the residences. All

precautionary measures to be taken by the

industry.

b. Hazardous/

Polluting Industrial

zone -

(Orange/Red)

Large public assembly

1. 1. Family entertainment/social &cultural associations

/multiplexes/malls/commercial complexes

1. 2. Exhibition grounds, Circus, other shows, public

gathering (concerts, etc.)

1. 3. Stand-alone cinemas/theatres, Bars, pubs,

banquets

1. 4. Convention centres, Function halls/Kalyana-

Mandapams

1. 5. All educational institutions including schools, ITI,

Junior Colleges, polytechnic, Degree, engineering,

medical), higher educational institutions, technical

institutions, research institutions

Residential

2. 1. All Residential activities other than staff quarters,

hostels, dormitories, affordable housing projects

exclusively workers/staff and hotels etc., which

are ancillary to main use subject to location of such

activities shall be away from the industrial activity

and

ensure

safety

the

residences.

All

precautionary measures to be taken by the

industry.

4. Mixed Use

1. Polluting industries

1. 1. Orange/Red category industries as prescribed by

AP Pollution Control Board (APPCB) other than

hotels

2. Animal Processing

2. 1. Slaughterhouses

2. 2. Dairy, poultry, animal breeding center, bird, fish

farms, beekeeping, pisciculture, hatcheries,

piggeries, cattle grounds

2. 3. Dairy farming, milk processing

2. 4. Piggery

2. 5. Stock yards related to animal

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

2. 6. Meat processing unit

2. 7. Livestock rearing

2. 8. Processing of farm products (more than 300

sq.mt plot area)

3. Hazardous Storage

3. 1. Hazardous/inflammable/perishables godowns

3. 2. Gas godowns/Combustion, Storage of

Inflammable items/ Chemical other such

industrial products

3. 3. Storage of Fertiliser and Pesticide

3. 4. Buildings with hazardous storage

3. 5. Oil depot

4. Nuisance/disposal

4. 1. Junk yards

4. 2. Compost yard/Garbage dumping yards/

4. 3. Timber/coal/wood depots

4. 4. Saw mills

4. 5. Compost plant, Landfill Sites, Dumping Ground,

Material Recovery Facilities (MRF), Bio-Medical /

Municipal Waste / Demolition, tanneries, animal

hides disposal and marketing facilities.

5. Heavy Infrastructure

5. 1. Ready mix plants, pre-cast cement industries,

ready mix concrete plants

5. 2. Quarrying gravel, sand/clay/stone crushers,

5. 3. Reclaimed quarry lands

5. 4. All Mining activities

5. 5. Oil rotaries, mills, rice mills

5. 6. Processing and sale of farm products

5. 7. Ice and freezing plants with power exceeding 20

HPEM

5. 8. Ripening chambers

5. 9. Printing press exceeding 20 HPEM

6. Heavy Transport/Logistics and Services

6. 1. Truck/bus terminals

6. 2. Warehousing/Godown exceeding 500 sq.mt plot

area

6. 3. Cold storage exceeding 500 sq.mt plot area

6. 4. Automobile service stations

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

6. 5. Workshops servicing/ repairs/ buses/ trucks/

welding >15 HP

6. 6. Container terminals

6. 7. Computer hardware manufacturing

6. 8. Data Centres

5. Recreational

All

activities

except

Park,

Playground,

Riverfront/Lakefront development, Watch and Ward,

Multipurpose open space (Maidan), botanical gardens,

Picnic

spots,

temporary

exhibition/events

without

causing any damage to the greenery/playground, Urban

forestry and similar Eco-conservation programme.

6. Transportation

Polluting industries

1. 1. Green/Orange/Red

category

industries

prescribed by AP Pollution Control Board (APPCB)

Animal processing

2. 1.

Slaughterhouses

2. 2. Dairy, poultry, animal, bird, fish farms,

beekeeping/ pisciculture, hatcheries, piggeries,

cattle grounds

2. 3. Dairy farming, milk processing

2. 4. Piggery

2. 5. Meat processing unit

2. 6. Livestock rearing

2. 7. Processing/sale of farm products

Hazardous storage

3. 1.

Hazardous/inflammable/perishables godowns

3. 2. Gas godowns

3. 3. Fertiliser, pesticide storage drying

3. 4. Buildings with hazardous storage

Heavy infrastructure

4. 1. Ready mix plants, pre-cast cement industries,

ready mix concrete plants

4. 2. Quarrying gravel, sand/clay/stone crushers

4. 3. Reclaimed quarry lands

4. 4. Mining

4. 5. Oil rotaries, mills, rice mills

4. 6. Processing and sale of farm products

4. 7. Ice and freezing plants with Power exceeding 20

HPEM

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

4. 8. Ripening chambers

4. 9. Printing press exceeding 20 HPEM

4. 10. Broadcasting/telecom stations

Nuisance/disposal

5. 1. Junk yards

5. 2. Garbage dumping yards

5. 3. Timber/coal/wood depots

5. 4. Saw mills

5. 5. Sewage farms/garbage/sewage disposal/landfills

5. 6. Storage of building materials

Large Public Assembly

6. 1.

Primary and Higher Secondary Schools.

Residential

7. 1. All Residential activities other than staff quarters,

hostels, dormitories, affordable housing projects

exclusively workers/staff and hotels etc., which

are ancillary to main use.

7. Public/Semi-Public

Polluting industries

1. 1. White/Green/Orange/Red category industries as

prescribed by AP Pollution Control Board (APPCB)

Animal processing

2. 1.

Slaughterhouses

2. 2. Dairy, poultry, animal, bird, fish farms,

beekeeping/ pisciculture, hatcheries, piggeries,

cattle grounds

2. 3. Dairy farming, milk processing

2. 4. Piggery

2. 5. Stock yards related to animals

2. 6. Meat processing unit

2. 7. Livestock rearing

2. 8. Processing/sale of farm products

Hazardous storage

3. 1.

Combustion/Hazardous/inflammable/perishables

godowns

3. 2. Gas godowns

3. 3. Petrol, Gas, Diesel, Bio-Diesel filling with service

stations

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

3. 4. Fertiliser, pesticide storage drying

3. 5. Buildings with hazardous storage

3. 6. Oil depot, storage petroleum, inflammables

Heavy infrastructure

4. 1. Ready mix plants, pre-cast cement industries,

ready mix concrete plants

4. 2. Quarrying gravel, sand/clay/stone crushers

4. 3. Reclaimed quarry lands

4. 4. Mining

4. 5. Weigh bridges

4.6 Oil rotaries, mills, rice mills

4.7 Processing and sale of farm products Ice and

freezing plants with power exceeding 20 HPEM

4.8 Ripening chambers

5. Nuisance/disposal

5. 1. Junk yards

5. 2. Garbage dumping yards

5. 3. Timber/coal/wood depots

5. 4. Saw mills

5. 5. Sewage farms/garbage/sewage disposal/landfills

5. 6. Storage and trading of whole sale building

materials

6. Residential

6. 1. All Residential activities other than staff quarters,

hostels, dormitories, affordable housing projects

exclusively workers/staff and hotels etc., which

are ancillary to main use.

8. Agricultural

Polluting Industries (APPCB)

1. 1. Orange/Red category industries as prescribed by

AP Pollution Control Board (APPCB)

Animal Processing

2. 1.

Slaughterhouses

2. 2. Meat processing unit

Hazardous Storage

3. 1.

Hazardous/inflammable/perishables godowns

3. 2. Gas godowns

3. 3. Buildings with hazardous storage

3. 4. Oil depot, storage petroleum, inflammables

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

Heavy Infrastructure

4. 1. Ready mix plants, pre-cast cement industries,

ready mix concrete plants

4. 2. Quarrying gravel, sand/clay/stone crushers

4. 3. Reclaimed quarry lands

4. 4. Mining

4. 5. Weigh bridges

4. 6. Oil rotaries, mills, rice mills

4. 7. Processing and sale of farm products

4. 8. Ice and freezing plants with power exceeding 20

HPEM

4. 9. Ripening chambers

4. 10. Newspaper offices with printing press,

4. 11. Printing press exceeding 20 HPEM

4. 12. Broadcasting/telecom stations

Large Public Assembly

5. 1. Social &cultural associations

5. 2. Multiplexes

5. 3. Shopping malls, Commercial complexes including

Local commercial shops

5. 4. Outdoor games stadium/sports stadiums

5. 5. Exhibition grounds, Circus, other shows, public

gathering (concerts, etc.)

5. 6. Stand-alone cinemas/theatres, Bars, pubs,

banquets

5. 7. Convention centres, Function halls/Kalyana-

Mandapams

5. 8. ITI, Colleges (polytechnic, Degree, engineering,

medical), higher educational institutions,

technical institutions, research institutions

5. 9. Hotels/Resorts

Contagion Medical

6. 1. Hospitals/health >20 beds

6. 2. Veterinary hospitals

6. 3. Any hospital treating contagious diseases

6. 4. Sanatoriums

6. 5. Bio-informatics centers

Nuisance/Disposal

Land uses

Prohibited Categories along with activities

7. 1. Junk yards

7. 2. Garbage dumping yards

7. 3. Timber/coal/wood depots

7. 4. Saw mills

7. 5. Sewage farms/garbage/sewage disposal/landfills

7. 6. Storage of building materials

Heavy Transport/Logistics

8. 1. Truck/bus terminals

8. 2. Warehousing/godowns/wholesale mandis/

wholesale markets

8. 3. Goods/logistic hubs/loading/unloading/ cold

storage

8. 4. Automobile service stations

8. 5. Workshops

servicing/repairs/buses/trucks/welding >15 HP

8. 6. Container terminals

8. 7. IT parks/computer hardware manufacturing

8. 8. Showroom motor vehicles/machineries

8. 9. Broad casting, telecasting

The following activities are allowed in Agriculture Land Use duly collecting

Master Plan Change of Land Use (CLU) charges and External Development

Charges:

i.The White, Green category Industries duly providing buffer zone as per the

conditions of the PCB.

ii.Residential development as part of rural development and the area shall be

limited to 10.00 hectares for VMRDA, APCRDA and TUDA & 5 Hectares for other

UDAs.

iii.Educational Buildings and uses ancillary to the main use.

9. Development

Restricted Zone

a. Special Area Zone

All

activities

other

than

Historical/Heritage

Conservation/Defence/Military and its ancillary use.

b. Protected

Use

Zone

[Blue,

Green, Hills and

Forest]

All activities other than parks, botanical gardens, Picnic

spots, Microwave radar, Cell Phone Towers.

Special Regulations:

Farmhouses are permitted on agricultural land provided the plot is at

least 0.50 acre, ground coverage does not exceed 10%, and a

maximum of G+1 floor is allowed up to 11 m in height.

ii.

Mixed use development i.e., mixed activities within the building shall

be allowed duly following the building rules for the respective use

including required parking areas.

iii.

Non-Residential buildings other than Industrial and Residential are

allowed in site area of 300 sq.mts & above and abutting to existing and

proposed 60’00” and above wide roads duly collecting impact fee and

charge of land use charges as notified by the Government from time to

time.

This clause is not applicable for land use notified in the Master Plan for

Park/Open Space Zone/Recreation zone, hillock zone, protected zone,

public utilities and industrial along the 60’ & above roads which are

abutting to existing and proposed 60’-0” & above.

iv.

Competent authority can permit any use in the Government Projects

irrespective of its usage as per Government orders without pre-judice

to any court orders.

The classification of the industries shall be followed as prescribed by

the Pollution Control Board (Central and State) and as per the

notification issued by PCB from time to time.

vi.

The requirements and standards pertaining to road widths, parking

requirements, required industrial buffers, pollution safety distance,

Highway (National/State), Setbacks, required buffer for water

bodies(Rivers, Canals, Nalas, Vagu, Tanks etc) shall be followed as per

the provisions made in AP Building Rules, 2017 and its subsequent

amendments made from time to time.

S.SURESH KUMAR

PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT