Margalla EnclavePlots · Islamabad

Master plan · read 19 September 2026

Margalla Enclave map & master plan: every sector, street and plot

A dealer-circulated copy of a Civil 3D master plan sheet that appears to be DHA's, cleaned of a dealer's overlay and read line by line: 7,507 plots, 198 numbered streets, 16 mosques, 7 schools, and the land-use lines against the CDA standard.

7,507 plots198 streetsPDF plotted 16 May 2025
Margalla Enclave map, master plan sheet: 1 Kanal north, 10 Marla south, 5 Marla south-east, lake in the centre, Botanical Garden to the north, Gumrah Kas to the south

Pinch to zoom on a phone, or open the full sheet. The right-hand panel of the drawing is reproduced as tables below so it can be read on any screen.

What the Margalla Enclave map shows, in one paragraph

Margalla Enclave is drawn on 10,443.33 kanal (10,000 net of the CDA Zone-IV roads that cross it) between the Botanical Garden to the north and the Gumrah Kas to the south. It holds 6,990 residential plots in three sizes, 128 apartment parcels in four footprints, and 389 commercial plots in thirteen — 7,507 in all. The 1 Kanal plots take the north and the lake district; the 10 Marla the south and south-west; the 5 Marla the south-east corner against Bahria Enclave. Every plot is marked as belonging either to the CDA's 55% share or the DHA's 45% share, with a handful marked common. We found 198 numbered streets and could tie 5,732 of the 7,051 plot numbers printed on the sheet to a street by geometry (81.3%); the rest sit on commercial parcels, apartment sites or at junctions the parser could not place.

Total area: 10,443.33 kanal is about 1,305 acres or 5.28 sq km, reading land area in the revenue kanal of 8 to the acre. The sheet’s own residential figure, 3,746 kanal for 6,990 plots, fits that kanal; measured in DHA’s plot kanal the same plots would need about 4,400. DHA’s plot sizes use a smaller one: a “1 Kanal” plot is 500 sq yd, 4,500 sq ft. The two marlas, converted.

Sector names are ours, by compass, because the sheet prints none. The EIA names the zones ME-1 to ME-4 and DHA’s portal names the Lake District; the sheet does not draw their boundaries — what is and is not known about the blocks.

Residential plots by size, category and share

This is the sheet's own typology table. "Common" plots are marked on the drawing as neither CDA nor DHA share; the sheet does not explain them.

Plot sizeCategoryCDA (55%)DHA (45%)Sub-totalCommonTotal plotsArea (kanal)
5 Marla · 25′ × 45′ · 125 sq ydGeneral8587021,56041,564327.98
5 Marla · 25′ × 45′ · 125 sq ydCorner7763140514536.81
10 Marla · 35′ × 65′ · 250 sq ydGeneral1,2871,0532,340122,352978.40
10 Marla · 35′ × 65′ · 250 sq ydCorner1541262802282132.80
1 Kanal · 50′ × 90′ · 500 sq ydGeneral1,2541,0262,28012,2811,887.32
1 Kanal · 50′ × 90′ · 500 sq ydCorner1981623606366370.10
Total3,8283,1326,960306,9903,733.40

Corner plots and what the premium costs

Read across the corner rows: 793 corner plots in the scheme, which is 11.4% of residential. Clause 13 of the form adds a premium for preferred categories such as corner, boulevard or park-facing plots. It is typically 10% for one category, with a maximum combined 15% for several, and the final category and premium are decided solely by DHA’s management. DHA charges it, so it stays in the price; a dealer may add his own on top. The sheet does not count boulevard or park-facing plots, so 793 is a floor for category plots.

SizeCorner plots3rd-ballot lump sumIllustration: +10% (typical)Illustration: +15% (maximum combined)
5 Marla145PKR 21,434,375PKR 23,577,812PKR 24,649,531
10 Marla282PKR 42,011,375PKR 46,212,512PKR 48,313,081
1 Kanal366PKR 72,876,875PKR 80,164,562PKR 83,808,406

The two right-hand columns are our arithmetic on the lump sums; the form does not say which price the premium is applied to.

Ask DHA in writing which category your plot is in and what premium applies. The form does not say where the category is recorded. If a seller’s price already includes a category premium, ask which category DHA has given the plot.

Apartment parcels

ParcelCDA (55%)DHA (45%)Sub-totalCommonTotal plotsArea (kanal)
2.78 Kanal · 125′ × 100′000550
5 Kanal · 125′ × 180′11920133388.40
5.55 Kanal · 125′ × 200′2218401353192.34
8 Kanal · 180′ × 200′119201737148.22
Total44368048128428.96

Residential plus apartments: 7,118. These are sites for apartment buildings, not flats, and 48 of the 128 are marked “common”, neither CDA nor DHA share. They sit in three places: the 8 Kanal parcels on the western edge along the Northern Bypass Link Road, a run along the Southern Bypass Link Road above the Gumrah Kas, and the 5.55 Kanal parcels beside the south-east commercial spine. None is inside the plot grids.

DHA has sold plots in three ballots and no apartments. A flat offered today is a developer’s pre-launch on one of these parcels or a file with no DHA paper behind it. Ask which parcel, whether the developer holds an allotment for it, and whether DHA has approved the building plan.

Commercial plots

Plot sizeCDA (55%)DHA (45%)Sub-totalCommonTotal plotsArea (kanal)
4 Marla · 30′ × 30′44368068613.28
5.33 Marla · 30′ × 40′44368088817.72
8 Marla · 40′ × 45′221840195913.40
10 Marla · 40′ × 60′119207278.73
16 Marla · 50′ × 75′1192052514.49
1 Kanal · 50′ × 90′11920143416.60
2.23 Kanal · 100′ × 100′00011110
5 Kanal · 150′ × 150′1192012184.61
5 Kanal · 125′ × 180′00017170
5.55 Kanal · 125′ × 200′00017170
Petrol pump1120222.12
10 Kanal hotel plot000110
Mega mall (126 Kanal in the sheet's table, 103.72 Kanal on its map)000110
Total155127282107389190.95

Grand total on the sheet: 7,507. The four special parcels — two petrol pumps, a 10 Kanal hotel plot and a mega mall (126 Kanal in the sheet’s table, but 103.72 Kanal on its map and in the EIA’s Table 3.1; our reading of the two figures) — are all in the DHA share or common; the CDA share has none of them. Commercial plots, prices and floors.

Master plan sheet (Kuri Road, Zone-IV): a dealer-circulated copy of a drawing that appears to be DHA's, PDF plotted 16 May 2025, read 19 September 2026. The sheet prints no date. Scale: 1 drawing point = 4.36 m, derived from the 50′, 35′ and 25′ plot frontages on the sheet itself (all three agree to within 2%). Provenance and what we removed.

Land use against the CDA's own standards

The sheet carries the same land-use table the environmental assessment had already printed as its Table 3.2 in April 2025, with the CDA standard beside each line. Two lines are below the CDA minimum (public buildings and the graveyard), and the sheet prints them anyway. A third, commercial, is over the 5% maximum if its parking counts and just under it if it does not. Percentages are of the 10,000 net kanal.

UseLineKanalGroup kanalShareCDA standardVerdict
ResidentialResidential plots3,746.28
ResidentialCondominiums681.36
ResidentialParking78.954,506.5945.07%50% maximumwithin standard
CommercialCommercial plots490.92
CommercialParking113.19604.116.04%5% maximumover the cap with parking, just under it for plots alone
Public buildingPublic building4674674.67%5% minimumbelow the CDA minimum
Open / greenPlaygrounds and parks1,376.30
Open / greenNallah and lake215.561,591.8615.92%15% minimumwithin standard
GraveyardExisting graveyard15.7815.780.16%2% minimumbelow the CDA minimum
RoadsRoads2,814.662,814.6628.15%23% minimumwithin standard
Total incl. CDA Zone-IV roads10,443.33of which CDA Zone-IV roads 443.33 kanal; net 10,000 kanal (shares are of the net)

Two of these matter to a buyer. Public buildings at 4.67% against a 5% minimum is the land set aside for public buildings; the shortfall is about 33 kanal against 5% of the 10,000 net kanal. Commercial is 4.91% for the plots alone, just under the 5% maximum, and 6.04% with its parking; the table prints the standard once for the group and does not say which base it applies to. On plots alone it sits just under the cap, so on our reading there is little room in this plan for more commercial land. If you are looking at a plot directly behind the commercial spine, ask DHA what is planned beside it. The graveyard line (0.16% against 2%) is a legacy graveyard being carried on the plan, not a new allocation. The EIA’s Table 3.2 labels the 4.67% line “Public Parking”; the master plan sheet labels it “Public Building”. The numbers are the same, 467.00 kanal and 4.67%, and we use the sheet’s label here.

Public buildings and amenities

FacilityCount on sheet
Parks, playgrounds and open spaces60
Green strips and medians200
Mosques16
Schools7
Health facilities2
Community centre1
Grid station1
Sewerage treatment plants2
Solid-waste management plot1
Public buildings6
Total296

The 200 “green strips and medians” are road verges; the 60 parks and playgrounds are the usable open space. Locate the two sewerage treatment plants and the grid station before you buy: a plot beside either is priced like every other plot at ballot, and not afterwards.

Closest street in each sector to each facility, straight-line on the drawing, rounded to 10 m.
SectorNearest mosqueNearest schoolNearest parkNearest commercial
North-East60 m40 m20 m120 m
West30 m190 m10 m210 m
Lake East570 m630 m110 m100 m
Lake West320 m360 m60 m100 m
South100 m100 m40 m180 m
South-West110 m70 m120 m270 m
South-East50 m90 m30 m90 m

Blocks: ME-1 to ME-4 and the Lake District

The Pak-EPA environmental assessment (section 3.7) divides the scheme into four development zones, ME-1 to ME-4, and DHA’s portal presents the Lake District as the community’s signature destination. Neither gives a plot size for any of them, and the sheet does not draw block boundaries. The sizes in the table are how dealers market the blocks: ME-1 and ME-4 for the 5 and 10 Marla plots, ME-2, ME-3 and the Lake District for the 1 Kanal plots. We have found no DHA list that says so. In the resale ads we collected on 8 October 2026, ads that named one block mostly followed this pattern; a few did not. Use it as a guide to where a size is marketed, not as a DHA fact, and ask DHA which block your plot is in.

BlockPlot sizes, as dealers market themStatus
ME-15 & 10 MarlaUnder development
ME-21 KanalDHA held a possession ceremony in May 2026 (videos dated 22 May). Dealers say selected streets, 21 May; DHA has not published which
ME-31 KanalUnder development
ME-45 & 10 MarlaUnder development
Lake District1 Kanal around a planned lake, plus commercial and recreation500-kanal lake planned, not built; a small natural lake is on site

Dealers who say “possession in ME-2” mean selected streets of ME-2, not the whole block, and DHA has not published which. Clause 14 of the form hands over a plot for construction only after three things: a possession announcement for that plot, full payment, and approval of your building design. Before paying a premium for “the possession block”, get the street number and ask DHA whether possession has been announced for that street. Development status.

What DHA has not published: a plot count per block, a price per block, or a development schedule per block. Its price list is by size and payment plan only. A block-specific price is a seller’s price, and a block-specific plot count did not come from DHA.

Roads and avenues named on the sheet

RoadWhere it runs
Jinnah AvenueMain approach from Kuri Road (Park Road side); the scheme's spine.
Margalla Enclave AvenueRuns along the Botanical Garden edge on the north side.
Margalla Creek AvenueFollows the nallah/lake corridor through the middle of the scheme.
Allama Iqbal AvenueCross-avenue linking the 1 Kanal north to the lake district.
Power Avenue (220′ right of way)The widest corridor on the sheet — a grid-line reservation, not a shopping street.
Ring RoadLoops the lake district.
Park View AvenueNorth-east edge, towards Park View City.
Northern Bypass Link RoadWest side, towards the future access and Mohra Nur.
Southern Bypass Link Road (80′ ROW)South side along the Gumrah Kas.
Roads 1–4 (50′–70′) and Roads A–D (50′)Sector distributors; streets (40′) hang off these.

Neighbours as printed: Margalla Botanical Garden (north); Park View City (north-east); Bahria Enclave (east / south-east); Gumrah Kas — 300′ ROW (south); Mohra Nur (west); two 'Future Access' reservations (west and south-west). The Park Road underpass and the Park Road link road are not on the sheet. They sit outside the scheme boundary. Islamabad Scene, on 20 September 2026, described the underpass as under the CDA’s mandate, built with the cooperation of DHA and FWO. Dawn reported on 4 September 2026 that a 3.8 km link road from Park Road to the scheme was being developed, with earthwork almost complete; no report we have read says who is building the road.

Provenance, and what we removed

A dealer-circulated copy of a drawing that appears to be DHA's. DHA has not published it, so we cannot confirm who drew it. The dealer's own name and two phone numbers had been pasted over the title area as PDF annotations; we removed those annotations and nothing else. The CDA/DHA typology tables, land-use table and amenity counts are the sheet's own. The drawing is titled "Master Plan Margalla Enclave — Kuri Road, Zone-IV, Islamabad". The PDF file data says it was plotted from Autodesk Civil 3D 2022 on 16 May 2025 and last re-saved by an Apple iOS app on 1 December 2025. That is a save date, not a DHA revision. The sheet itself prints no date or revision. 1 drawing point = 4.36 m, derived from the 50′, 35′ and 25′ plot frontages on the sheet itself (all three agree to within 2%).

What this drawing cannot tell you: whether possession has been announced for any street (ask DHA for the street, in writing), which ME-block a street is marketed under, and today's price for any plot. Official prices are by size and plan, never by street.

Questions people ask

Is there an official Margalla Enclave master plan or layout map?

DHA has not published one on margallaenclave.dhai-r.com.pk — the portal carries a location sketch and gallery photographs only. The drawing on this page is a dealer-circulated copy of a Civil 3D master plan sheet that appears to be DHA's (PDF plotted 16 May 2025). Its totals — 6,990 residential, 128 apartment, 389 commercial, 7,507 in all — match Table 3.1 of the Pak-EPA environmental assessment exactly, so we treat it as consistent with DHA's figures. That does not prove DHA drew it, and the sheet prints no date or revision.

Which block is 5 Marla, which is 10 Marla, which is 1 Kanal?

On the sheet the 1 Kanal plots (50′×90′) fill the north and the lake district, the 10 Marla (35′×65′) the south and south-west, and the 5 Marla (25′×45′) the south-east down to the Gumrah Kas. DHA's names ME-1 to ME-4 are not printed on the sheet, and neither DHA's portal nor the EIA gives plot sizes per block. Dealers say ME-1 and ME-4 hold 5 and 10 Marla and ME-2, ME-3 and the Lake District hold 1 Kanal, so the size zone points to a pair of blocks, not to one. Ask DHA which block your plot is in.

How many streets does Margalla Enclave have?

We found 198 numbered streets on the sheet, with numbering that restarts in each sector — there are five different 'Street 1's. Always quote a street together with its sector or its neighbouring road, and check the plot number against the drawing.

How many corner plots are there?

793 residential corner plots: 145 of 5 Marla, 282 of 10 Marla and 366 of 1 Kanal. Under clause 13 of the application form a corner, boulevard or park-facing plot carries a premium of typically 10%, with a maximum combined 15% for more than one feature; DHA’s management decides the category.

What does the CDA 55% / DHA 45% column mean?

The joint venture splits the developed plots 55% to the CDA and 45% to DHA (Dawn, 11 February 2025). On the sheet's typology table, of 6,960 residential plots 3,828 are marked as CDA share and 3,132 as DHA share, with 30 more marked 'common'. The sheet does not say which streets fall in which share; ask, and get it in writing, because it decides whose allotment letter you eventually hold.

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