Hyderabad HMDA Masterplan: Zone Check and Land Use Guide

The HMDA Master Plan 2031 covers 5,965 sq km across 12 zones including R1 to R4 residential, commercial, manufacturing, peri-urban, agricultural, and water body zones. The zone determines approvals needed and whether a CLU is required. Buying without checking causes most failed registrations and loan rejections. Use the 1acre Premium Hyderabad Masterplan layer to verify your survey number's zone before transacting.

An HMDA layout has a valid LP number complying with masterplan zone, road widths, and civic amenity norms. A GP layout has no authority inside HMDA jurisdiction. Most banks refuse loans on GP layouts, and registrations of unauthorised GP layouts have been blocked at Sub-Registrar Offices as of 2024.

The Peri-Urban zone restricts construction to 25% of plot area, with residential buildings capped at 18 metres and commercial at 15 metres. Plots here marketed as high-density residential opportunities are being misrepresented. The zone does not permit the density that such marketing implies.

A CLU converts land to a use different from its masterplan designation. Agricultural or Peri-Urban land sold for residential development needs a HMDA CLU before any layout or building plan approval. CLU applications are processed separately by HMDA and are not available through TG-bPASS.

Under G.O. Ms. No. 68 dated 12 March 2025, HMDA expanded to 10,472.723 sq km covering 11 districts, 104 mandals, and 1,355 villages. Gram Panchayat approvals are no longer valid in these areas. All layout and building permissions must go through TG-bPASS; CLU applications continue to be processed separately by HMDA.

Not yet. HMDA issued a preliminary notification for the 354 km RRR alignment in September 2025 covering 163 villages, identifying land for acquisition, not development. The Mega HMDA Master Plan 2050 governing this corridor is still in preparation. Buying adjacent agricultural land expecting residential reclassification is speculative.

HADA governed the Shamshabad airport area before merging into HMDA in 2008. Cyberabad Development Authority (CDA) was similarly dissolved into HMDA in 2008. HADA-era height restrictions due to flight path requirements still apply within those boundaries. Buyers near Shamshabad must confirm whether HADA restrictions apply to their specific survey number alongside standard HMDA zoning.

Yes. On the 1acre map, you can load the HMDA Masterplan layer and the Survey Number layer together. This lets you see, at any location, both the masterplan zone (R1, R2, Commercial, Agricultural, Peri-Urban, etc.) and the individual survey numbers overlaid on satellite imagery — so you know exactly which zone your survey number falls in before committing. Both layers are available with a Premium subscription. Subscribe to 1acre Premium.

Thousands of developers, land buyers, and valuators use the HMDA Masterplan layer on 1acre.in every day to check zones and evaluate lands across the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region — whether or not the land is listed on 1acre.in.

The most common workflow: overlay Survey Numbers on top of the HMDA Masterplan to confirm a plot's sanctioned land use (residential, commercial, industrial, recreational, water body, conservation, bio-conservation) before making a buying, pricing, or appraisal decision. Checking the zone alone tells you what's allowed on the plot; pairing it with the survey number confirms the plot itself is correctly located inside that zone — the two layers together are what replaces a site visit for most evaluators.

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