6.1 Regional planning and the regional plan notes

1. 6.1.1Concept and types of regions: formal, functional, planning and administrative

   A region is an area that hangs together in some way. It may share uniform features (formal), be tied to one centre by flows (functional), be drawn for preparing and carrying out a plan (planning), or follow government boundaries (administrative).

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2. 6.1.2Delineating regions: breaking point formula, law of retail gravitation, gravity model and population potential

   Regions are delineated by measuring how strongly places pull on each other: by mapping actual flows, or by models that treat attraction as rising with population and falling with distance.

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3. 6.1.3Regional plan surveys, analysis and projections; hierarchy of plans; NCR and MMR Regional Plan 1996–2011

   A Regional plan rests on surveys of land, people, economy and settlements, on projections of population and needs, and sits above the Development Plan in the hierarchy; NCR and MMR are India's best-known metropolitan regional plans.

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4. 6.1.4MRTP Act Sections 3–13: establishing a region, the Regional Planning Board, its duties and surveys

   Chapter II of the MRTP Act lets the State Government notify a Region (s.3), constitute a Regional Planning Board for it (s.4), and makes the Board responsible for surveying the Region and preparing the Regional plan (ss.8, 13).

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5. 6.1.5MRTP Act Sections 14–17: contents, submission, approval and publication of a regional plan

   Section 14 says what a Regional plan contains; s.16 sets the draft, objection and hearing procedure; s.15 lets the State Government approve, modify or reject it; and s.17 publishes it and fixes the date it becomes the "final Regional plan".

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6. 6.1.6MRTP Act Sections 18–20: restriction on development, compensation and revision of a regional plan

   Once a draft Regional plan is notified, no one may change land from agriculture or develop it without permission (s.18); no compensation is payable where similar restrictions already exist (s.19); and the plan can be revised after ten years or modified at any time by the State Government (s.20).

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