The Core Area Plan and its Relationship with CMR


The Core Area Plan and its Relationship with CMR

The primary aim of the Core Area Development Plan is to promote economic growth and distribution in a sustainable manner in the core area of the CMR. Although the Core Area Plan has been developed as a separate project, it is linked to the rest of the CMR through the concept of growth centre.

Under the proposed growth centres, the city of Colombo will operate as the primate city. As a result the demand for the City of Colombo may increase in certain activities. The city of Colombo will dominate in Port related, banking, financial and insurance sectors on the basis of the revised zoning plan of the City. The Government policy directives is to concentrate the functions like Administration, Health and Education elsewhere in order to release the burden of compacted land use in Colombo City. This makes the utilisation of land determined by its locational advantage.

It is expected that there will be planned development within the identified growth centres as well as the core area of the CMR. This may result in the need for additional space within the Core area and the CMR for various additional activities. The activities like improved warehousing, transhipment centres, container parks and terminals, export oriented value added industries linked with the port; and high income housing for expatriates and managerial staff are some areas where the demand within the city is likely to grow In addition, the demand activities such as banking, financial, insurance travel and tours, cargo, and stock exchange is also likely to grow in the city than other parts of the CMR.

The Core Area   Development Plan envisages the release of about 630 Ha. in the city once the shifting of the administrative and institutional function, which are still located in the city, to Greater Kotte Area is completed. The land that becomes available can be used for different purposes.(Table 8 & Table 9).

·       It is proposed that most of this land will be utilised for the purpose of creating low density exclusive residential areas in order to cater for High Income groups as well expatriate staff.

·        Providing of high density middle income residential areas.

·        Relocating or on site development of low income households in order to get the optimal use of the valuable sites and to increase the quality of life of the people.

A number of other institutional activities will also be relocated within the suitable hierarchical centres in order to achieve functional efficiency and spatial balance within the CMR. The estimates so far being made for the floor space in each of these categorises indicates that in year 2010 the Colombo City would require an additional modern floor space of approximately 5.5 Mn. square meters (Table 8 & 9)

Table 8
Restructuring of Land Use Pattern and Identified Areas for Relocation – in the City of Colombo

Existing Land Use Categories	Area Covered by different Land Uses 1996		Land Uses Identified For Relocation	Areas Vacant due to Relocation		Promising Areas Identified for Relocation in the CMR
	Extent(Ha)	%		Extent (Ha)	%
Residential	1401	37.6	Residential	310	20.6	Within the areas in the City of Colombo Kesbewa INTER Maharagama Kaduwela Gampaha Panadura
Commercial	225	0.06	Commercial	18	05.2	INTER Orugodawatta
ducation	160	04.3	Education	10	06.2	Athurugiriya Kaluthara INTER Gampaha Ragama
Health	58	01.6	Health	07	12.0	Kotte INTER Gampaha Kalutara
Administration & Defence	155 38	04.1 01.0	Administration & Defence	70	67.3	Battaramulla INTER Kotikawatta
Cultural	249	06.7	Cultural	5	03.1	Horana INTER Nittambuwa
Industries	149	04.0	Industries	30	13.7	Katunayke INTER Ja-Ela/Ekala Biyagama
Transpotation	983	26.4	Transpotation	100	19.8	Re – Use of under Utilised lands
Unclasified	311	08.3	Unclasified	80	11.8
Total Developped Area	3729	100.0	-	630	16.9

Source :Urban Study : City of Colombo- 1996

Table 9
Proposed Functions and Activities Encouraged to be Located in the City of Colombo

Major Functions	Identified Activities	Allocation of Lands From Gradual Conversion of Existing Function to proposed Functions
Major Functions	Identified Activities	Extent (Ha)	Percentage
High Income Residential.	High Income Residential derived From other growing centers. Expatriates in existing. Establishment	110.00	03.00
Mixed Development	Commercial Residential	915.00	24.50
Commercial.	Retail Trading. Commercial Centers.Financial centers.Local / international Banking.	375.00	10.00
Port Related Activities	Ware Housing . Container Yard Port related Services Transhipment Value Added Industries High Density Housing (Highrised)	560.00	15.00
Total		1960.00	52.50

Source: : UDA

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