SNN Kannur Road Master Plan — Seven Acres, Four Blocks

Four blocks on seven acres gives the planner room to position each tower on its own terms rather than pack them onto a shared podium grid.

The blocks are arranged around a central landscaped spine rather than in a row along the road frontage. Three consequences follow. No block looks directly into another at close range, because inter-block setbacks are wide enough to preserve privacy and sightlines from the middle floors upward. Every block has direct pedestrian access to the central green and to the clubhouse without crossing a vehicular road. And the arrangement lets the majority of floor plates take a north–south orientation, which in Bengaluru's climate is the difference between a west-facing living room that is unusable from three to six in the afternoon and one that is not.

The Kannuru Main Road frontage carries the arrival sequence: a set-back entry court, a gatehouse with boom barriers, and a covered drop-off at the primary lobby. Service and waste access is separated onto its own approach so that refuse and delivery vehicles never share the resident arrival route.

Ground+16 is the height decision. Seventeen habitable levels gives real elevation — upper floors will look across the Bellahalli green belt to the east and toward the Yelahanka horizon to the west — without the costs a 30- or 40-storey stack imposes: longer lift waits, more complex water and air pressurisation, higher common-area maintenance per home, slower evacuation, and a firefighting strategy dependent on equipment the city's fire service holds in limited quantity.

The circulation strategy is vehicles down early, pedestrians above.

A single controlled vehicular entry from Kannuru Main Road passes the gatehouse and drops almost immediately to the basement parking levels, so resident traffic does not circulate across the site at grade. What remains above ground is a peripheral fire-tender and service road at the mandated width and turning radii, the covered drop-offs at each block lobby, and visitor parking bays near the entry.

The interior of the site — the spine, the lawns, the play areas, the amenity frontages — is therefore pedestrian-first. A child walking from a block to the play area does not cross a live carriageway.

Fire tender access is maintained to every block on the peripheral loop, with hardstanding at the designated points and turning circles sized to Karnataka Fire and Emergency Services requirements for a Ground+16 building.

Basement and podium levels carry the parking allocation at a ratio appropriate to the configuration mix. With 3 and 4 BHK homes forming a substantial share of the plan, a meaningful proportion of households will hold two cars, and the allocation is planned for that rather than for a single-car assumption. EV charging provision is built into the basement layout at design stage — worth confirming on the specification sheet, because retrofitting EV capacity into a completed basement is among the most expensive upgrades a residents' association can face.

Also below ground or at the service edge: the domestic and fire water tanks, the pump rooms, the transformer yard and DG enclosures, the STP, and the segregated waste handling area with the organic waste converter.

The master plan described here is drawn from the sanctioned scheme parameters — seven acres, four blocks, Ground+16, approximately 550 units — and from planning conventions on comparable projects at this scale. The specific allocations, amenity positions and parking ratio are finalised in the sanctioned plan filed with the Karnataka RERA registration.

When that registration is published, three documents are worth reading before booking. The sanctioned plan confirms block positions, setbacks and the open-space allocation. The specification sheet confirms the parking ratio, the STP capacity in KLD and the DG allocation per apartment in kW. The common-area schedule confirms which amenities are in the handed-over scope rather than shown indicatively on a render.