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Bahria Orchard review: LDA status, prices by phase and the risks
Is Bahria Orchard LDA approved? No phase is on the LDA list we could check. A 5 marla plot averages Rs 48 lakh. Possession, utilities and risks, Oct 2026.
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Is Al Kabir Town LDA approved? Part of Phase 2 is; the Phase 1 site is on LDA's 2025 violation list. 5 marla plots average Rs 73.8 lakh. As of Oct 2026.
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Al Kabir Town on Raiwind Road is only partly approved. 'Al-Kabir Town, Janjaty' is on LDA's approved list (November 2025 copy), backed by a 239-kanal sanction from 2019, but in 2020 the developer itself said only Phase 2 Blocks A and B had final approval. The Phase 1 site, next to Beaconhouse National University, is on LDA's September 2025 master-plan-violation list. We found no LDA record for any 'Phase 3' or 'Phase 4'. A 5 marla plot averaged Rs 73.8 lakh in asking prices in August 2026.
Al Kabir Town is only partly approved, and the answer changes block by block. “Al-Kabir Town, Janjaty” is on LDA’s approved list, but in 2020 the developer itself said only Phase 2 Blocks A and B had final approval. The Phase 1 site is on LDA’s September 2025 list of master-plan violations. We found no LDA record for any “Phase 3” or “Phase 4”. A 5 marla plot averaged about Rs 73.8 lakh in asking prices in August 2026.
Part of it. Here’s what the record shows, phase by phase:
| Area | What we found |
|---|---|
| Phase 2, Blocks A and B | Final approval, by the developer’s own account (Feb 2020); “Al-Kabir Town, Janjaty” is on LDA’s list (Nov 2025 copy) |
| Phase 2, Blocks C, D, E, Abu Bakar, Ali, Usman | Preliminary approval only, as of Feb 2020; no later final approval found |
| Umer, Usman Extension, Downtown, Park Enclave | No final approval found |
| Phase 1 (next to BNU Tarogil) | On LDA’s master-plan-violation list (Sept 2025 copy); no approval letter found |
| “Phase 3” and “Phase 4” | No LDA record, and not on the developer’s own project list |
LDA sanctioned a 239-kanal plan in Mouza Janjaty in March 2019. The letter, which the developer publishes, doesn’t name blocks. A separate 2,220 kanals got preliminary permission in December 2019.
Two warning signs about how the society was sold. Phase 2 was launched in May 2017, before LDA’s preliminary permission of November 2017, which itself said it wasn’t permission to sell plots. And in December 2019 the developer announced that “all blocks of Phase II” were approved; the LDA letter it published was a preliminary permission only, and two months later it said only Blocks A and B had final approval.
According to the developer, Phase 1 and Phase 2 Blocks A, B and C had possession by 2020, and Blocks D, E and Usman were due possession from January 2022. Downtown, whose map was revealed in October 2024, and Park Enclave are still being developed. None of this has been independently checked.
Source: Zameen.com, as of Aug 2026
Zameen’s average 5 marla asking price more than doubled, from Rs 34.1 lakh in June 2021 to Rs 73.8 lakh in August 2026, up 16% in the last year. That’s a series high.
Al Kabir is a small-plot society: most plots listed for sale are 3 marla. Zameen’s 10 marla index exists but has long flat stretches, and no 10 marla plot was listed when we checked, so we don’t use it.
We can’t score this. The developer said gas installation was underway in Phase II in April 2021. A 2018 LDA letter asked LESCO to review the electrification design, and LDA’s 2017 permission refers to a WASA water NOC. None of these confirms supply today, and we found no SNGPL, LESCO or WASA source.
Al-Kabir Developer (Private) Limited, formerly Al-Kabir Town (Pvt) Ltd. It has delivered and populated parts of Phases 1 and 2, and two of its other schemes, Kings Town and Maryam Town, are on LDA’s approved list. Against that:
Zameen listed 305 residential plots for sale on 7 October 2026, nearly all in Phase 2 and most of them 3 marla, with 57 at 5 marla and none at 10 marla. That’s a working market for small plots, and a thin one for anything larger.
On Raiwind Road in south-west Lahore. Phase 2 is opposite Lake City, about 17 km by road from Thokar Niaz Baig and 29 km from the GPO. Phase 1 is about 2.5 km north-west, next to BNU’s Tarogil campus near Bahria Town. See all Lahore reviews.
Suits: Small-budget buyers after a 3 or 5 marla plot or house in Phase 2 Blocks A or B, the blocks the developer itself says have final LDA approval.
Avoid if: The plot is in Phase 1, in a block with only preliminary approval, or in a 'Phase 3' or 'Phase 4' with no LDA record.
Main risks:
Based on public records and listings. Site visit pending.
Partly. 'Al-Kabir Town, Janjaty' is on LDA's approved list as reproduced in November 2025, and LDA sanctioned a 239-kanal plan in March 2019. In February 2020 the developer said only Phase 2 Blocks A and B had final approval, with other blocks on preliminary approval.
Blocks A and B had final approval by the developer's own account in February 2020. Blocks C, D, E, Abu Bakar, Ali and Usman had only preliminary approval then, and we found no later final approval for them, or for Umer, Downtown or Park Enclave.
The Phase 1 site is. LDA's master-plan-violation list, as reproduced in September 2025, names 'Al Kabir Town/Apartments, adjacent to Beacon House University', which is where Phase 1 is.
We couldn't find one on record. The developer's own project list has no Phase 3 or 4, and we found no LDA record for either. Agents may use those names for other projects.
Zameen's asking-price index averaged about Rs 73.8 lakh in August 2026, up from Rs 34.1 lakh in June 2021. Most plots listed for sale are 3 marla.