Lehtrar and Simly Dam Road — 45 of CDA’s 98
CDA publishes a list of 98 schemes it calls illegal. Nobody counts where they are. We did — and nearly half sit on one road.
CDA publishes a list of housing schemes it calls illegal. There are 98 of them across Islamabad. We counted where they are, and forty-five — nearly half — sit on the Lehtrar Road and Simly Dam Road corridor.
That is not a coincidence of geography. It is the eastern edge of the city, where land is cheap, oversight is thin, and starting an unapproved scheme costs least. It is also where a very large share of the “affordable Islamabad plot” offers a buyer receives on WhatsApp actually come from.
What the record actually says
| Fact | What the source says |
|---|---|
| The count | 45 of CDA’s 98 illegal schemes are on this one corridor — our own count from CDA’s published list, read 1 September 2026. |
| What the market looks like | Only 11 plot listings on Lehtrar Road and 4 on Simly Dam Road on the portals when we checked on 2 September 2026 — against hundreds or thousands in the established sectors. Real land, almost no visible resale market. |
| Pakistan Navy Farms | On CDA’s register: Zone 4, 2,343.26 Kanal, LOP Cancelled, NOC Not Issued. In January 2022 the Islamabad High Court ordered demolition of the Navy sailing club and CDA seizure of farmhouses over national-park land; reporting a month later said the order had not been implemented and appeals were continuing. |
| A conflicting claim | Dealer material describes an NOC “granted 13 March 1993” for that land. CDA’s current register says Cancelled and Not Issued. Take the register. |
| Names that get confused | Two “Al-Hamra” schemes exist in CDA’s data — Al-Hamra Avenue (Zone 5, NOC Issued) and Al-Hamra Hills (Zone 4, Cancelled). At least one secondary source treats them as one. |
Even while this enforcement runs, CDA has published an invitation for objections to a new farm-scheme application on the same corridor. The pipeline has not stopped.
The honest part
- The base rate here is bad. On a corridor where 45 of the city’s 101 listed-illegal schemes sit, “check the name against CDA’s list” is not paranoia; it is the first step, every time.
- Almost no resale market. Fifteen plot listings across two roads means that if you need to sell, you will be looking for a buyer rather than choosing between offers.
- Search demand is near zero for the named schemes on this belt. Nobody is looking for them. That tells you something about the depth of the buyer pool.
- National-park and protected land runs through here, and the Navy Farms litigation shows how long these questions can stay open — an order from January 2022 still unimplemented a month later, with appeals continuing.
- There is no per-area FBR valuation line for this corridor by name; rural valuation is set by a separate District Collector notification. So even the tax base is less transparent here than in the city.
What to ask before you pay
- “What is the exact registered name of this scheme?” Then search that name in CDA’s illegal list yourself, before any other conversation.
- “Is it in CDA’s register of approved schemes?” If it is in neither list, ask why — a private scheme should be in one of them.
- “Who has bought here and sold again?” Ask for one completed resale. The answer is usually the whole answer.
Against Bahria Enclave, plainly
The pitch for this corridor is always the price, and the price is real: land here costs a fraction of anything inside the city. So does the risk, in the other direction. Our whole position on this site is that cheap land with an unresolvable legal question is not cheap — it is expensive land you cannot sell.
If the budget genuinely will not stretch to an approved scheme, the honest options are a smaller plot in a developing sector with a readable layout plan, or waiting. Both are better than a plot on a road where CDA has already listed 45 schemes as illegal.
The rest of the city, read the same way
Same four things on every one: CDA’s register badge, the notices attached to it, FBR’s notified value, and dated asking prices.
- DHA Islamabad-Rawalpindi
- Naval Anchorage Islamabad
- Zaraj Housing Scheme
- B-17 Multi Gardens
- G-13, G-14 and G-15
- Gulberg Greens & Residencia
- Bani Gala
- Chak Shahzad
- Bahria Town Rawalpindi
- Park View City Islamabad
- F-15 and E-16
- Faisal Town & Faisal Hills
- Top City-1
And the story that runs through all of them: CDA’s 2025–26 enforcement wave.
Plots available in every Bahria Enclave sector — and we buy as well as sell
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 sixteen 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.
Buying on this corridor
Forty-five of the 98 schemes CDA publishes on its illegal-schemes list sit on that corridor — our own count, from CDA's list, read on 1 September 2026. That is nearly half the city's total on a single belt, which is why the first check for any offer out there is the scheme's exact registered name against that published list.
Only if it can be sold again. When we checked on 2 September 2026 there were eleven plot listings on Lehtrar Road and four on Simly Dam Road across the major portals, against hundreds in established sectors — and Google autocomplete showed effectively no search demand for the named schemes there. Cheap land with no buyer pool and an open legal question is not a discount, it is an exit problem.
CDA's register records it in Zone 4 at 2,343.26 Kanal with the layout plan Cancelled and NOC Not Issued. In January 2022 the Islamabad High Court ordered demolition of the Navy sailing club and CDA seizure of farmhouses on national-park land; reporting the following month said the order had not been implemented and appeals were continuing. Dealer material citing a 1993 NOC conflicts with CDA's current register — take the register.
Offered cheap land out on Lehtrar Road?
Send the scheme name before anything else. The check takes two minutes and it is the difference between a bargain and a write-off.