The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) is planning to
prepare a detailed development plan (DDP) for the areas adjoining Outer
Ring Road (ORR). The 62.3-km-long ORR connects NH 45 (GST Road) at
Vandalur, NH 4 (GWT Road) at Nazarathpet, NH 205 (CTH Road) at
Nemilicherry (Thiruninravur), NH 5 (GNT Road) at Nallur and TPP road at
Minjur. Sources told Express that the Second Master Plan had identified
areas along the ORR as potential areas for future growth.

The ORR
was part of the recommendations of the First Master Plan for Chennai
Metropolitan Area, to ease traffic congestion in the city by connecting
the NH in the Chennai Metropolitan Area.

It is believed that the
DDP proposed by the CMDA would focus on the grid of roads, aiming at
good connectivity to the outer ring road, inter linkages and future
requirements of physical and social infrastructure.

Interestingly,
the proposal also comes in the wake of the development of a
passenger-cum-freight railway line, linking Ennore to Vandalur on the
ORR stretch, which planners feel will generate interest among the real
estate developers. Besides, the State Government is also planning to
build an inter-city satellite bus terminal in Vandalur for South-bound
buses.

The CMDA is likely to drop the plan to develop a detailed
development plan for Ambattur, which it feels has already developed.
Ambattur was among the five peri-urban areas, for which the CMDA planned
to develop DDPs more than four years after the Second Master Plan came
into being.

DDPs are prepared under Section 27 of the Tamil Nadu
Town and Country Planning Act and the maps prepared show the ideal use
of each piece of land in the area and guide infrastructure development
by various department and agencies.