CDA publishes a register of 70 private schemes with their LOP and NOC status, and a list of 101 it calls illegal. Read on 1 September 2026 — including both halves of the Bahria Enclave answer.
Two lists decide whether a scheme in Islamabad is real, and CDA publishes both of them in the open. One is the register of private housing schemes, with a Layout Plan badge and a separate NOC badge against every name. The other is CDA’s list of schemes being marketed with no CDA approval at all. Almost nobody reads them, which is why “CDA approved” survives as a marketing phrase long after the badge underneath it has changed.
We read both on 1 September 2026 and put them on this page unedited. There are 70 registered schemes and 101 schemes CDA calls illegal. Below you can search either one, see what CDA says about the ground you are being sold, and — the part that matters — do the same check yourself in two minutes, next month, without us.
CDA approves a private scheme in two separate steps, and a scheme can sit between them for years. First the Layout Plan (LOP) is approved: the drawing that fixes plots, roads, parks, amenities and boundary. Only after further formalities does CDA issue the No Objection Certificate (NOC), which is what actually permits development work and the sale of plots.
That is why the register carries two badges, not one. Across the 70 registered schemes today: 55 have an approved LOP and 12 have had their LOP cancelled; 29 hold an issued NOC, 32 show “Not Issued” and 6 show a cancelled NOC. Read that again: more registered schemes are without a current NOC than with one. “It’s in the CDA list” is not the same sentence as “it has an NOC”, and a dealer who uses them interchangeably is telling you something about the dealer.
70 schemes, 12 of them in Zone 4 — the zone that contains the Bahria Enclave corridor. Names, zones, areas and both status badges are CDA’s own. We have left out CDA’s “Road” column on purpose: it reads “GT Road” against schemes that are nowhere near GT Road, including Bahria Enclave, so it is not safe to republish.
| Scheme (CDA’s own name) | Zone | Area Kanal | Layout Plan | NOC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan Medical Cooperative Housing Scheme | Zone 1 | 276 Kanal | Cancelled | Not Issued |
| Cabinet Division Employees Co-operative Housing Society | Zone 2 | 4405 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Engineers Housing Scheme | Zone 2 | 1156.29 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Faisal Residentia Housing Scheme | Zone 2 | 1220.60 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Federation of Employees | Zone 2 | 443 Kanal | Cancelled | Not Issued |
| Khayaban-e-Kashmir, Phase (Extension) | Zone 2 | 3325 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Khayaban-e-Kashmir, Phase-I | Zone 2 | 3482.62 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Margalla View Housing Scheme | Zone 2 | 1912.02 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Margalla View Housing Scheme (Extension) | Zone 2 | 292.25 Kanal | — | — |
| Ministry of Interior Employees Co-operative Housing Society | Zone 2 | 1630 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Multi Gardens, Phase-I | Zone 2 | 4815.75 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Multi Gardens, Phase-II | Zone 2 | 4480 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| National Police Foundation | Zone 2 | 1325 Kanal | Approved | Cancelled |
| New Islamabad Garden | Zone 2 | 800 Kanal | Approved | Cancelled |
| Paradise City | Zone 2 | 1900 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Roshan Pakistan (RP) Corporation Housing Scheme | Zone 2 | 1619 Kanal | Cancelled | Cancelled |
| Supreme Court Employees Housing Scheme | Zone 2 | 2222.06 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| T & T Employees Cooperative Housing Society | Zone 2 | 1194.7 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Tele Gardens Housing Scheme, F-17, Islamabad | Zone 2 | 1757.65 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Al-Hamra Hills Agro Farming Scheme | Zone 4 | 1423 Kanal | Approved | Cancelled |
| Anza Zephyr Dale Agro Farms | Zone 4 | 4980.95 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Bahria Enclave Phase-I Housing Scheme | Zone 4 | 12543.11 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Bahria Enclave-II, Agro Farming Scheme | Zone 4 | 2489.38 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Bahria Enclave-II, Phase-II, Housing Scheme | Zone 4 | 1180.04 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| FIA Park Enclave Housing Scheme | Zone 4 | 401.97 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF) | Zone 4 | 3090 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Gulberg Greens Farm Housing Scheme | Zone 4 | 3862 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Islamabad Model Town | Zone 4 | 423 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Pakistan Navy Farms, Simly Dam Road, Islamabad | Zone 4 | 2343.26 Kanal | Cancelled | Not Issued |
| Park View City Housing Scheme | Zone 4 | 1067.90 Kanal | Approved | Approved |
| Rahman Enclave Housing Scheme | Zone 4 | 705.68 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| AGOCHS, Phase-I | Zone 5 | 1114.14 Kanal | Cancelled | Not Issued |
| AGOCHS, Phase-II | Zone 5 | 3517 Kanal | Approved | Cancelled |
| Al-Hamra Avenue | Zone 5 | 1074 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Al-Makkah City | Zone 5 | 408.43 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Army Welfare Trust | Zone 5 | 4710 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Bahria Garden City | Zone 5 | 3232.4 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Bahria Town (Phase-III-E- IV) | Zone 5 | 2099 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Bahria Town (Phase-VII-E) | Zone 5 | 711 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Bahria Town, Phase VII | Zone 5 | 879.53 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Bahria Town, Phase-II,III,V & VI | Zone 5 | 2501 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| CBR Town | Zone 5 | 1687.85 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Capital Enclave | Zone 5 | 771.51 Kanal | Provisional Approval | Not Issued |
| Engineers Co-opertaive | Zone 5 | 4298 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Grace Valley | Zone 5 | 436 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Gulberg Residencia (IBECHS Ph-III) Housing Scheme | Zone 5 | 19390.36 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Gulshan-e-Rabia | Zone 5 | 447 Kanal | Cancelled | Not Issued |
| Gulshan-e-Sehat | Zone 5 | 1748 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Icon Garden | Zone 5 | 146.92 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Islamabad Gardens | Zone 5 | 811.50 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Jeddah Town | Zone 5 | 800 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Jinnah Garden Phase-1 Extension | Zone 5 | 1826.50 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Jinnah Garden, Phase-I | Zone 5 | 2548 Kanal | Cancelled | Not Issued |
| Jinnah Garden, Phase-II | Zone 5 | 430 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Jinnah Town | Zone 5 | 2549 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Kashmir Gardens Farming Scheme | Zone 5 | 2660.13 Kanal | Provisional Approval | Not Issued |
| Khayaban-e-Kashmir, Phase-II | Zone 5 | 1345 Kanal | Cancelled | Not Issued |
| Morgah City | Zone 5 | 882 Kanal | Cancelled | Not Issued |
| National Assembly Empolyees Cooperative Housing Society (NAECHS) | Zone 5 | 407 Kanal | Cancelled | Not Issued |
| National Cooperative Housing Society & New Islamabad Enclave | Zone 5 | 1037 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Naval Anchorage | Zone 5 | 3702.70 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| OPF Housing Scheme | Zone 5 | 4683.25 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Parliamentarians Enclave | Zone 5 | 414 Kanal | Cancelled | Not Issued |
| River Garden | Zone 5 | 1079.17 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Senate Avenue | Zone 5 | 680 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
| Services Co-operative Housing Society | Zone 5 | 255 Kanal | Cancelled | Not Issued |
| Soan Garden Housing Scheme | Zone 5 | 2985 Kanal | Approved | Cancelled |
| Tele Town | Zone 5 | 499.5 Kanal | Approved | — |
| WWF Labor Colony | Zone 5 | 1511 Kanal | Approved | Not Issued |
| Zaraj Housing | Zone 5 | 1564 Kanal | Approved | Issued |
Source: CDA — Private Housing Schemes, read 1 September 2026. Each name on CDA’s own page opens a detail card with the owner, contact, approval dates and any attached notices.
CDA’s wording is plain: plots are being sold and marketed in the name of these schemes even though “the sponsors of these Illegal schemes/land subdivisions have not obtained any approval/NOC from CDA”. Fourteen of them are on the roads a Bahria Enclave buyer drives down — Park Road, Kuri Road, Mallah Road. One of them CDA locates, in its own list, by our society’s name:
None of these is Bahria Enclave. That is exactly the point: a site office on Park Road, a banner, a plot file and a “near Bahria Enclave” address prove nothing at all. The scheme’s own name has to appear on CDA’s registered list, and the NOC badge next to it has to say what the salesman says it says.
Source: CDA — Illegal Housing Schemes, read 1 September 2026. CDA updates this list; check it again before you pay.
We hold ourselves to this page too, so here is our own society without the polish. CDA’s detail card for Bahria Enclave Phase-I records Zone 4, 12,543.11 Kanal, sponsor M/s Bahria Town (Pvt) Ltd, and:
Both halves are true and you need both. An NOC really was issued on 8 April 2022 — CDA’s own 2026 notices cite it by number (NOC letter No. CDA/PLW/RP-2(13)/2018-2020-2022/157, approved by the CDA Board on 1 March 2022). What changed is the badge on the public register, which today reads “Not Issued”. We previously published only the 2022 half of that sentence. Publishing only one half is how this niche misleads people, so both halves now travel together everywhere on this site.
By contrast, in the same register, Bahria Enclave-II Agro Farming Scheme (2,489.38 Kanal) shows NOC: Issued, dated 16-07-2014 with an extended-plan NOC on 06-10-2019, and Bahria Enclave-II Phase-II also shows NOC Issued. Inside one brand, on one road, the badges differ. This is precisely why “is Bahria Enclave CDA approved?” cannot be answered yes or no — you have to name the scheme.
Attached to that same CDA card are two notices. They are not leaks or blog claims; the second one carries a direction to CDA’s own IT director: “It is requested to Upload this Show Cause Notice on CDA Website for Awareness of the General Public & All Stakeholders.” Both are signed by Ijaz Ahmad Sheikh, DG (Spatial Planning).
The subject line alone lists illegal construction of an access road on CDA land, construction of residential and commercial buildings on CDA land, conversion of amenity and public-building areas to other land uses, and extension of the scheme without approval. Inside is a thirty-row compliance table; around twenty rows read “Not Complied”. These are the rows that touch a plot buyer directly:
| NOC condition | CDA’s finding | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Scheme must stay inside the approved 12,543.11 Kanals; no extension without CDA approval | Not Complied | CDA notes “Extended Area / Boundary” |
| Amenity and public-building plots must not be used for anything else | Not Complied | CDA notes “Illegal Conversion of Amenities Plots made” |
| Plots mortgaged to CDA must not be allotted until CDA releases them | Not Complied | CDA notes “Mortgaged stands Plots Allotted” |
| All allotment and transfer letters must be vetted by CDA | Not Complied | Clause 40(8) of the Regulations |
| Possession must not be handed over until the whole scheme is developed and a completion certificate issued | Not Complied | Para 1(xxii) of the NOC |
| Outstanding dues, fees and penalties must be paid or the NOC is cancelled | Not Complied | Rs 53.44 million, conveyed by letter dated 3 June 2025 |
| Development to be completed within six years | In progress | Valid to 7 April 2028; CDA records “approx. 50% of scheme area is developed” |
Two more findings from the same notice belong in front of any buyer. 190.55 Kanal of residential and commercial plots — 20% of the saleable area — was mortgaged to CDA by registered deed dated 6 April 2022, and 6,692.96 Kanal of roads, streets, parks, graveyards and public buildings was transferred to CDA by registered deed dated 13 October 2022. CDA asks for both to be marked on the approved layout plan. And the 3.5 km Jinnah Avenue link road from Kuri Model Village, undertaken in writing on 1 February 2012, “has not been developed to date”.
CDA directs compliance in ten days, payment of dues in seven, and demolition of the illegal access road in fifteen — and lists the punitive steps available if that does not happen: referral to NAB or FIA, blocking access to the scheme, suspending approval of building plans, selling the mortgaged plots, sealing the society and site offices, and suspending every other CDA case of the sponsor.
This is the one that should change how you read any Bahria Enclave map. CDA states that “there are 2 LOPs available in the record of Regional Planning Directorate, CDA, which are quite different from each other”, and that the plans show discrepancies in the calculation of parks, playgrounds and green areas “to the extent of more than 200 Kanals shortfall”. The sponsor and the scheme’s consultant town planner were summoned for 6 April 2026 with the original layout plan and the AutoCAD file. The notice is copied to SECP, to the Deputy Commissioner ICT, and to the then Director Regional Planning — described in CDA’s own distribution list as the signatory of both layout plans.
The two notices do not even agree with each other on the size of the scheme: the March 16 notice says the 2020 layout plan covers 85,823 residential plots, the March 31 notice says 8,828. We are not going to pick one. We are telling you the regulator printed both, three weeks apart, because that is the kind of thing you want to know before you pay for a plot number on a drawing.
Read the originals: show-cause notice, 16 March 2026 (PDF) · show-cause notice, 31 March 2026 (PDF). Both are hosted by CDA. We have archived copies dated 1 September 2026.
It does not mean “do not buy”, and anyone who tells you it does is selling you something else. Bahria Enclave is a registered scheme in CDA’s register with an approved layout plan, roughly half-developed by CDA’s own count, with a development window running to 7 April 2028. Plots there trade every day. It means four specific things:
This page is a reading of a public register on one dated day, not legal advice. CDA’s register is the authority; where we differ from it, it is right and we are wrong. If you find a figure here that no longer matches CDA’s page, tell us and we will date and correct it.
From Sector A’s finished streets to Sector O’s entry tickets — 5 Marla to 4 Kanal, file to allotment to possession — we keep live options in all fifteen sectors, plus DHA Margalla Enclave ballots, files and resales. Buying, selling, or exchanging: one WhatsApp message gets you today’s real options, with verification built in before any token moves.
At scheme level it is a registered scheme in CDA's own register, in Zone 4, with an approved Layout Plan — and you need the second half of the sentence too. CDA issued an NOC on <b>8 April 2022</b>, but the NOC badge on CDA's public register today reads <b>“Not Issued”</b>, carrying the date <b>25 November 2025</b>, and CDA has published two show-cause notices against the scheme dated 16 and 31 March 2026. Bahria Enclave-II, by contrast, shows NOC Issued. So the honest answer names the scheme and the date, and then moves to your specific plot.
CDA's register listed <b>70</b> private housing schemes when we read it on 1 September 2026: 55 with an approved Layout Plan, 12 whose Layout Plan is cancelled, 29 holding an issued NOC, 32 showing “Not Issued” and 6 cancelled. More registered schemes are without a current NOC than with one, which is why the phrase “CDA approved” on its own tells you very little.
The Layout Plan is the approved drawing — plots, roads, parks, amenities, boundary. The NOC is the later permission that lets the sponsor develop and sell. CDA grants them in two separate steps, so a scheme can hold an approved LOP for years with no NOC. Adverts collapse the two into “approved”; the register does not.
CDA's illegal list runs to 101 schemes, and <b>14</b> of them give a Park Road, Kuri Road or Mallah Road address — including one CDA itself describes as “Ameer Khan Enclave, Mallah Road near Bahria Enclave”. Being next to an approved scheme confers nothing. Check the scheme's own registered name.
No — neither appears in CDA's register of private housing schemes, nor on CDA's illegal list. DHA schemes sit outside CDA's private-scheme regime, so “is it CDA approved?” is the wrong question for them rather than a question with a bad answer. See <a href="margalla-enclave.html">the Margalla Enclave guide</a> for how that scheme is actually governed.
No, and you shouldn't want to. This is one dated reading of a live public register. Statuses change — Bahria Enclave's NOC badge changed on 25 November 2025. The six-step check above takes about two minutes and it is the version that will still be true on the day you pay.
Both sit on the Park Road corridor. One is CDA paper with a 14-year delivery saga still in the press in Feb 2026; the other is a private society with finished sectors you can build in today.
Residential is quoted cash-only while the commercial zone runs a 3-year plan, and two dealer sites disagree by a factor of ten on the same plot. Every number here carries its source and its date.
Sticker price is never the landed cost. §236K at 1.25% (filer) vs up to 18.5% (non-filer), ~1% stamp duty, society transfer fees — totalled for real 5 Marla, 10 Marla and 1 Kanal examples.
Send the exact registered name and the plot number. You get CDA's current status and the plot-level checks back in writing.