Green Belt Development for Industries in Val, Bhiwandi.

Conditions on Val's parks usually fix a proportion of each plot for planting, most often along the boundary. The ground there is typically compacted fill, and the yards beside it are hot, dusty and exposed. We rework the soil in the planting strips before anything goes in, choose native trees that take heat and poor ground, and place the denser belts where the park faces village houses, so the planting screens dust and noise as well as meeting the count.

Val is one of the villages near the Mumbai–Nashik highway that has been absorbed into Bhiwandi's warehousing belt. Where there were once paddy fields, grazing land and low hills, there are now logistics parks of long, high sheds with wide truck yards and rows of loading docks, many let to online retailers, consumer brands and third-party logistics firms. Most parks went up in stages over roughly the past fifteen years, and new ones are still under construction. Village houses, temples and small farm plots survive in the gaps between them, and heavy vehicles use the approach roads at every hour.