The Rules Behind DHA Lahore

A plot is only what carries a plot number on DHA’s map.

A shape with no number may be a green area, unplanned land, or some leftover piece — but it is not a plot.

That is why every count of ours includes numbered plots only.

In DHA Lahore 1 marla = 225 square feet, and 1 kanal = 20 marla = 4,500 square feet.

A plot’s measurement on the map is never exactly round (there is always a little more or less), so each size has a band: a plot within half a marla either way of a size is counted in that size.

For example: a plot from 1,013 to 1,237 square feet falls in the 5 marla box (5 marla = 1,125 sq ft).

Cutting comes from the plot number: the block’s planning sets which run of numbers is which size of cutting.

The plot’s own (exact) size is a separate matter — a 7 marla plot can sit inside a 5 marla cutting. In that case the cutting is called 5 marla, but the plot is still called 7 marla.

An example — Phase 9 Prism, Block R (verified on the ground):

• 1 Kanal cutting: plots 1 to 271
• 10 Marla cutting: plots 272 to 326, and 694 to 728
• 5 Marla cutting: plots 327 to 693, and 729 to 3413 (3413 is the block’s last number)

The same system runs in every block of every phase; block boundaries go up on this site as our ground survey confirms them.

Sizes with a point (5.75, 5.5 and so on) are counted in the whole marla below them — everything from 5 up to 6 is 5 marla.

A point is never written in a heading or a page title.

Whatever plot number an agent gives us, we look it up on DHA’s map first and write the size from there.

If the agent’s size clashes with the map, we show both and mark it “under check” — nothing is hidden.

The per-marla price is also worked out from the map’s size.

First of all: our own survey on foot.

Then: DHA’s map (GIS).

Last: an agent’s message or data from any other source.

Wherever they clash, the one above beats the one below.

A level plot is one that has been filled up to the level of the road.

With a vacant plot it must be stated whether it is level, or how far below the road it sits (how much filling it needs).

A pair is not a size of its own — it is written from the per-plot size, as in “1 Kanal Pair (2 Kanal)”.

Pair is a sub-category of residential and commercial plots, and triplets are counted within it too.

Every market property carries the date AND the time of its last update — both are compulsory.

Sale and rent are never put together in one box, one button or one count — they stay apart everywhere.

Whenever a new rule is settled, it will be written on this page — so that what we know and what you know stay in one place.