UDCPR 2020 / Chapter 4, Land use classification and permissible uses
4.3 Residential zone - R-1
UDCPR 2020 as amended to 30.01.2025
(Residential Zone R1 includes Residential plots abutting on roads below 9.0 m. in width in congested area shown on the Development Plan and on roads below 12.0 m. in width in outside congested area (i.e. in non-congested area)). (In case of C Class M.C.s, Nagarpanchayats and R.P. areas, the above road width of 12.0 m. shall be 9.0 m. in non-congested area). The following uses and accessory uses to the principal use shall be permitted in buildings or premises in purely Residential Zone, subject to other regulations:-
i) Any residences, Slum Improvement / Rehabilitation.
ii) Hostels for students / working men/ women, lodging with or without boarding facilities.
iii) Old age home, sanatorium, orphanage, night shelter dormitories.
(1) Inserted vide Corrigendum / Addendum No.CR.121/21, dt.02nd December, 2021
(2) Inserted vide DTP Order No.4274, dt.25th August, 2023
(3) Inserted vide DTP Order No.4946, dt.10th September, 2024
iv) Customary Home occupation i.e. occupations customarily carried out by the members of the household without employing hired labourer and shall include stitching, embroidery, beauty parlour, button making etc. with or without motive power. If motive power is used, the total electricity load should not exceed 1 H.P. (0.75 kw).
v) Medical and Dental Practitioner's Dispensaries including pathological laboratory, diagnostic clinics, polyclinics, counselling centres, clinics, to be permitted on any floor. Maternity homes, clinics, nursing homes with indoor patients with bed not exceeding 20 on any floor with separate means of access of staircase from within the building or outside may be permitted but not in any case within the prescribed marginal open spaces. Where doctor's residence is located on upper floor, then such separate means of access of staircase may not be necessary.
vi) Professional Offices in residential tenement for own purpose not exceeding carpet area of 50 sq.m. each.
vii) Community halls, welfare centre, gymnasia (each not exceeding 100 sq.m.).
viii) Primary and nursery schools including students' hostels except trade schools.
ix) Crèche, Day-care centre upto 100 sq.m. in an independent building or part of building.
x) Private coaching classes, student‘s mess in an independent building or part of building upto100 sq.m. subject to separate parking facility in the same premises.
xi) Religious buildings.
xii) Public / City Libraries and Museums in independent building or on ground or first floor of the composite building.
xiii) Club Houses or gymkhanas in residential complexes.
xiv) Public or Private Park (except an amusement park), garden and play field in independent plot not used for business purpose.
xv) Bus shelters, Taxi - Rickshaw stands, trolley bus shelters, Railway Station, Metro station, BRT stand, cycle stand and like uses.
xvi) Convenience shops only on ground floor.
xvii) Police Station, Police Chowky, Government and Municipal sub-offices, Post and Telegraph Offices, Branch offices of Banks with safe Deposit Vaults, Electric sub-stations, Fire Aid posts, Home Guards and Civil Defence Centres, essential Public utilities, Pumping stations, water installations and ancillary structures thereof required to cater to the local area.
xviii) Electronic Industry of the Assembly type (not of the manufacturing type) with the following restrictions :-
a) Motive Power shall not exceed 1 H.P.
xix) Information technology establishment (ITE) (pertaining to software only) on the plots / premises fronting on roads having width 9.0 m. and above
xx) Flour mill and wet / dry masala grinding / subject to following conditions: -
a) Power requirement shall not exceed 10 H.P.
xxi) Burial grounds, cremation grounds and essential public utilities, on a road having width of 9.0 m. and above.
xxii) Agricultural, horticultural and allied uses (except agro-based industries).
xxiii) Raisin production, book binding.
xxiv) Public conveniences.
xxv) Research, experimental and testing laboratories not involving any danger of fire or explosion or of any obnoxious nature
To see how 4.3 and the rest of UDCPR apply to a particular plot, with the clause behind every figure, open Citiwise.
The text of the Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations for Maharashtra State, as amended to 30.01.2025. The notification of the Urban Development Department, Government of Maharashtra, is the authoritative text.