Environment Clearance in Chembur, Mumbai.

Redevelopment in Chembur often combines several old buildings into one layout with larger towers, and the merged scheme frequently passes the item 8(a) mark. Slum rehabilitation schemes, with rehab and sale buildings together, cross it more often still. We calculate area across every building in the scheme, including rehab components, and prepare a single application for the whole, so the project does not stall later on a threshold one building alone would never have reached.

Chembur is one of Mumbai's older eastern suburbs, with tree-lined residential colonies, markets and gymkhanas, many of its housing societies dating from the decades after independence. To its east the land runs towards Trombay and Mahul, where fertiliser, refinery and power plants stand near the harbour, and the atomic research centre occupies the hill. The Eastern Freeway and the monorail pass through. Old societies are being rebuilt as towers, and slum rehabilitation projects rise at the edges. It remains a leafy residential district, with heavy industry only a few kilometres away.