UDCPR 2020 / Chapter 9, Requirements of part of building

9.2.2 Height of Habitable Rooms

UDCPR 2020 as amended to 30.01.2025

The minimum and maximum height of a habitable room shall be given in Table No.9-A hereunder :

Table No.9-A

 Sr.                      Occupancy                      Minimum Height       Maximum Height
 No.                                                          (m.)                 (m.)
  (1)                         (2)                               (3)                  (4)
   1    Flat Roof -
        a) Any habitable room                                  2.75                  4.5
        a1) Habitable room in EWS / LIG Housing.               2.75                  4.2
        b) Air-conditioned habitable room                       2.4                  4.5
        c) Assembly Halls, Residential Hotels of 3        3.0                  6.00 or higher
        star category and above, Institutional, (2.40 m. in case              according to the
        Educational, Industrial, Hazardous or storage   of Air                 requirement of
        occupancies, Departmental Stores, Malls, IT   conditioned                occupancy.
        Buildings, Office Buildings, Exhibition         room)

Centre, Convention Hall, Theatre, Film Studio, Entrance Halls and Lobbies to these buildings.

        d) Shops                                               3.00                  4.5
   2    Pitched roof-
        a) Any habitable room                             2.75 (average 4.5 (average with

with 2.0 m. at the 3.2 m. at the lowest lowest point) point)

b) Habitable room in EWS / LIG Housing. 2.6 (average with 4.2 (average with 2.0 m. at the 3.2 m. at the lowest lowest point) point)

Provided that the minimum head-way under any beam shall be 2.4 m.

Provided further that height more than that specified above, if required for particular occupancy, shall not be counted towards calculation of FSI.

Tables under this regulation: Table 9-A.

To see how 9.2.2 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.