Permissible FAR/FSI, ground coverage, setbacks and max height for a residential plot — each figure cited to the exact bylaw clause it comes from. Covers Delhi (DDA), Gurugram, Noida and Chennai with verified numbers; Delhi (MCD) and Greater Noida are listed honestly as “read this off your local bylaw” where White Warp doesn't have a clause-cited source.
Permissible FAR / FSI
3
Source: DDA Handbook on Development Controls 2021, p.3-4 (Master Plan for Delhi 2021, Cl. 4.4.3)
Ground coverage
75%
Source: DDA Handbook on Development Controls 2021, p.3-4 (Master Plan for Delhi 2021, Cl. 4.4.3)
Buildable built-up area
5,400 sq ft
Source: FAR 3 × plot area (1,800 sq ft)
Max ground-floor footprint
1,350 sq ft
Source: Ground coverage 75% × plot area
Max height
15 m
Source: DDA absolute cap (enter road width for the exact formula result)
17.5m is permitted with confirmed stilt parking — this calculator uses the conservative 15m default.
Mandatory setbacks (open margin from plot boundary)
Front
3 m
Rear
0 m
Side 1
0 m
Side 2
0 m
Source: DDA Handbook 2021, p.3
FAR / FSI(Floor Space Index) is the ratio between the total floor area you're allowed to build and the plot area. Multiply it by the plot area to get the buildable built-up area. Most authorities in NCR band this by plot size (smaller plots get a higher ratio); Chennai instead sets a base ratio and adds a percentage premium the wider the abutting road is.
Ground coveragecaps how much of the plot the building's footprint can occupy on any single floor — the rest has to stay open (driveway, garden, air/light shafts). It's independent of FAR: a plot can have a high FAR but a low ground coverage, which forces the building upward rather than outward.
Setbacksare the mandatory open margins measured inward from each plot boundary (front, rear, two sides) before any construction can start. They usually scale with plot size or, in Chennai's case, with road width.
Max height is either an absolute cap (Gurugram, Noida) or a formula/ladder tied to the abutting road width (Delhi DDA, Chennai).
Every number this calculator prints is sourced directly from the underlying gazette or authority handbook, cited under the figure. Where White Warp doesn't have that citation on file — Delhi MCD and Greater Noida today — the calculator says so instead of guessing.
Each verified authority's numbers are read directly from the gazetted building bye-law or authority handbook, with the exact clause cited under every figure — not a national average or a rule of thumb. Bylaws do change; check the "last verified" date and the linked source before relying on a number for a real transaction.
White Warp's engine only encodes a bylaw table when it can cite the exact statute clause or gazette page it came from. Delhi MCD's road-width FSI table and Greater Noida's bylaw set don't currently meet that bar — printing a guessed number risks a wrong FAR reaching a real decision, so the calculator says so instead.
FSI (FAR) caps total floor area across all floors combined. Ground coverage caps how much of the plot the footprint can occupy on any one floor. A plot with FSI 2.0 and 50% coverage could be a 2-floor building covering the whole plot, or a 4-floor building covering half of it — coverage and setbacks decide the shape, FSI decides the total.
No. All calculation happens in your browser — nothing is sent to a server or saved.