1. The Location of Gasoline (Motor Fuel) filling stations and filling-cum-service stations in urban areas by Town & Country Planning Organization, Ministry of Works and Housing Government of India.
2. Recommended practice for location and layout of roadside motor fuel filling and motor fuel filling-cum-service station by I.R.C.
3. Norms for location, layout and access to fuel stations along national highways by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways letter No. RW/NII-330323/19/99-DOIII dated 25.9.2003.
4. Guidelines for setting up of Retail Outlets for 2/3 wheelers issued by the Department of Town & Country Planning, Punjab.
5. Guidelines for setting up of filling stations/ filling-cum-service station along National Highways/ Schedule Roads in Urban Estates and colonies approved by PUDA issued by the competent Authority, Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority.

These guidelines be applied as per prevailing practice within limits of Urban Local Bodies where there is no Master Plan and in case of those Urban Local Bodies for which Master Plans have prepared, these guidelines be made applicable within urbanisable limits of the said Master Plans.

In these guidelines, para-4.2.7 provides that minimum distance of property lines of filling stations from the central line of the road must not be less than 15 meters or ½ of the proposed right of the way of the roads whichever is more. Variation can be approved in special case if allowed by the Competent Authority after complete investigation.

Above issue was threadbare discussed by the Officers and observed that approval of variation by the Competent Authority becomes very subjective and sometimes it is not possible to recommend or to reject any application on this very ground as different officers of the Department take different views being a subjective issue. In order to bring a unanimity, the minimum road width needs to be prescribed and only after that the variation by the competent authority may be allowed, so that subjectivity is omitted. Thus officers recommended that minimum road width of 20 meters on which the Petrol Pump is proposed to be located be considered for giving relaxation on merit under this para.

Under para 4.2.2 it has been provided that a filling or filling-cum-Service Stations should not be located opposite a break or opening in the central verge on a dual carriageway, as this will encourage traffic to cross the road while entering the Filling or Filling-cum-Service Station. This para was also discussed in detail by the officers and observed that status of an intersection has not been defined in this para. It has been observed by the officers that in most of the cases number of lanes/streets/roads are making intersections on the major roads on which retail out let is being setup. To facilitate the General population it has been decided that an intersection of lane/street/road up to the width of 22’ shall not be considered as an intersection.

These guidelines by applied outside the urban areas on roads except the NHWs. The officers deliberated the applicability of these guidelines and the difficulties being faced in the application/ interpretation of the following paras and made suggestions:-

The officers deliberated this point in detail because Punjab being an agrarian state and fully covered under Land Consolidation where a number of revenue rastas/village roads/phirnies/ approached to farm houses make junctions with the major roads i.e. State Highways/National Highways. For this very reason in may cases road length up to 10 Kms. or even more than 10 Kms. does not qualify for setting up of a fuel station. To fined out the solution and to come up with solid recommendation a detailed study was carried out by the field officers and observed that numbers of junctions were made at the time of consolidation.

After analyzing the picture brought out from the study the members recommended that all rastas/phirnies village roads and village link roads which take off or are emerging with main road up to width of 4 karms (22’-0”) may not be considered as roads making junctions within 100 metres from the tangent point of the fuel filling station to the tangent of such road.

As far as the junction within 300 metres the committee suggested that all intersections of National Highways, State Highways, State Highways and major district roads to be considered as major junctions up to distance of 300 meters measured from the tangent point up to curves to filling station and that of the road.

The committee has recommended that these guidelines may be made applicable on all the National Highways passing through the state of Punjab whether National Highways are falling outside the limit of urban local bodies or within the limit of urban local bodies. The Committee has also recommended that in any case if the road authority gives any relaxation to any applicant from these guidelines this department will not object to that.

These guidelines are primarily prepared for the cities of Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar. The Committee has recommended the applicability of these guidelines in all urban as well as rural areas.

In addition to earlier circulated guidelines by the department the committee has suggested the following minimum requirements for ingress and egress:-

1. Maximum width of drive way should be 2.25 metres.
2. Maximum angle of intersection to driveway with strip pavement should not be less than 60 degree.
3. Maximum distance from any driveway from exterior property line should not be less than 6 metres.
4. Maximum distance from any driveway to any exterior outlet should not be less than 3 metres.
5. The maximum distance between curves should not be less than 6.37 meters out of which 3.62 metres and 2.75 metres ingress and egress should be observed.
6. The provision of buffer strip 2.5 x.9.0 metres.

1. A filling station should not be sited too close to an intersection or a traffic island or a bridge or a culvert or a railway level crossing on the main road.
2. In case of main road provided along with a service road or a marginal access road, the access to the station should be provided from the service or marginal access road and not from the main road.
3. The minimum distance between two 2/3 wheelers fuel stations should be as under:-

Non-urban (Rural) Areas

Junctions/intersections made by 22’ to 40’ wide road/streets with the road on which 2/3 wheelers fuel filling station is proposed will be considered as minor junction/intersection, all other junctions/intersections made by more than 40’ wide road/street with the road on which 2/3 wheeler fuel filling station is proposed, will be treated as major junction/intersection.