COMMTUNTY CENTRE

Community centres are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for
group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may sometimes
be open for the whole community or for a specialised group within the greater community.
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These shall include any building or part of a building,or gather for amusement,recreation,
social, religious,patriotic, civil, travel and similar purposes, for example, theatres, motion
picture houses, assembly halls, auditoria, exhibition halls, museums, skating rinks,
gymnasiums, restaurants, places of worship, dance halls, club rooms, passenger stations
and terminals of air, surface and marine public transportation services,recreation piers and
stadia, etc.
Buildings under Group D shall be further sub-divided as follows:

Sub-division D-1 Buildings having a theatrical or motion picture or any other stage and fixed
seats for over 1000 persons

Sub-division D-2 Buildings having a theatrical or motion picture or any other stage and fixed
seats upto 1 000 persons

Sub-division D-3 Buildings without a permanent stage having accommodation for 300 or
more persons but no permanent seating arrangement.

Sub-division D-4 Buildings without a permanent stage having accommodation for less than
300 persons with no permanent seating arrangement.

Sub-division D-5 All &her structures including tempormy structures designed for assembly of
people not covered by sub-divisions D-1 to D-4, at ground level.

Sub-division D-6 Buildings having mixed occupancies providing facilities such as shopping,
cinema theatres, and restaurants.

Sub-division D-7 All other structures, elevated or underground, for assembly of people not
covered by sub-divisions D-1 to D-6.

NOTE- Openings in walls or floors which are necessary to be provided to allow passages of all
building services like cables, electrical wirings, telephone cables, plumbing pipes, etc, shall be
protected by enclosure in the form of ducts/shafts having afire resistance not less than 2 h. The
inspection door for electrical shafts/ducts shall be not less than 2 h and for other services
shafts/ducts, the same shall have fire resistance not less than 1 h. Medium and low voltage wiring
running in shafts/ducts, shall either be armoured type or run through metal conduits. Further, the
space between the conduits pipes and the walls/ slabs shall be filled in by a filler material having fke
resistance rating of not less than 1 h.
PARKING
Car 2.4 metres x 4.8 metres

Light Vans 2.4 metres x 5.5 metres

Rigid Vehicles 3.5 metres x 14.0 metres

Articulated Vehicles 3.5 metres x 18.5 metres

Coaches (60 seats) 3.5 metres x 14.0 metres

 Length Width Minimum Headroom
Type of Parking Space
(m) (m) (m)
Private Cars and Taxis 5 2.5 2.4
Light Goods Vehicles (LGV) 7 3.5 3.6
Medium / Heavy Goods Vehicles (MGV/HGV) 11 3.5 4.7
Container Vehicles 16 3.5 4.7
Coaches and buses 12 3.5 3.8
Light buses 8 3.0 3.3
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KITCHEN
DINNING AREA