VERTICAL GROWTH
Soon, taller hospitals, hotels
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Gandhinagar: Hospitals and hotels of the state are going to get taller. The state government has made changes in the General Development Control Regulations (GDCR) which will now allow hospitals in Gujarat to go up to 22 floors.
Nitin Patel, urban development and urban housing minister, announced the changes in the state assembly on Monday. Patel said thatas per the existing rules, hospitals can be set up in commercial and residential zones only. However, now the new rules specify that a hospital can be set up anywhere on a plot that is 5000 square metre in size and has an approach road of 30 meters.
The same rules would apply to both hospitals and hotels. The minister said at present the floor space index (FSI) permissible is 1.8, but as per the new GDCR norms the permissible FSI would be 4. Patel said as per the existing norms a building could go up to 40 meters which permitted construction of 12 floors. But with the new rules, a building can go up to 70 meters which will permit construction of 22 floors.
Also as per the existing norms, there was no provision for safety in case of any untoward incident or natural calamity, but now these buildings would be covered under the national building code, making it mandatory to have safety provisions like a rescue area where people can be shifted in case of any emergency. This area has to be connected with an escape route connected to the building. Patel added that in the hospital the basement can now be used for air-conditioning plant, boiler, house keeping, waste water collector, central laundry, change room and even library.
A hotel would be permitted to have swimming pools as per requirement on any of the 22 floors. Patel said that a hotel in future would be required to desalinate the water for its use, and hence about five per cent of the existing jantri rates will be deposited with the local authority or the body.
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