PRR-2 notification hits over 460 plot owners in approved Bengaluru layouts

More than 460 property owners across two approved residential layouts near Kaggalipura on south Bengaluru's Kanakapura Road have been caught in a regulatory crossfire following the final notification for the Peripheral Ring Road-2. The development has triggered widespread anxiety among middle-class investors who purchased plots after verifying statutory approvals.

The acquisition notice threatens lifetime savings and puts the credibility of state planning approvals under scrutiny. Affected buyers relied on clearances issued by multiple planning bodies, highlighting systemic coordination failures between municipal authorities and infrastructure planners.

The final notification, issued by the state government on September 3, encompasses roughly 1,427 acres across 31 villages in the Bengaluru Urban district. Within this sweep, 461 plot owners in The Gardens-4 and SLV Krishna Gardens near Gulakamale village found their properties slated for acquisition under Survey Numbers 112/1 and 112/3.

Homebuyers stated they invested in the sites after confirming that the layouts held valid papers. The Gardens-4 secured provisional approval from the Kanakapura Planning Authority in December 2021 and registration with the Karnataka Real Estate Regulatory Authority in October 2022, with site releases and khata partitioning proceeding through 2023. Developers paid land conversion fees and registration charges to the Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority years after the initial, decades-old preliminary alignments were floated.

Property owners voiced dismay over compensation estimates, pointing out that official offers stand at a fraction of prevailing market rates near ₹2,000 per sq ft, while purchase values ranged between ₹4,200 and ₹5,500 per sq ft. Several buyers cleared bank loans secured to fund their purchases after obtaining formal legal clearance.

Representatives of the affected homeowners' association noted that the alignment currently cutting through their inhabited layouts differs significantly from preliminary corridors proposed when the project was first conceived in 2005 and 2006. They emphasized that residents are not opposed to public infrastructure, but appealed to the administration to reconsider the road geometry to spare fully developed residential pockets.

Affected residents plan to explore legal avenues and petition state authorities to secure denotification of the residential enclaves before physical acquisition proceedings advance further.