Is my society approved? Search LDA, RDA and CDA's own lists in one place

Type a society’s name to check it against the lists that LDA, RDA and CDA publish themselves: approved schemes, LDA’s own schemes, and schemes each authority has declared illegal. We downloaded all of them on 14 October 2026: 1,658 entries. Every result links to the official page so you can confirm it there.

What the lists hold

All figures as of 14 October 2026. Across the three authorities, 1,091 entries are on an illegal list and 567 on an approved one. In Rawalpindi the illegal list is nearly eight times longer than the approved one.

How to check a society is approved: reading the result

Each authority words approval differently. The tool sorts results into four labels, but always read the authority’s own words under the label.

• Approved. LDA: “finally approved”, or “approved” where LDA doesn’t give the stage (182 of its 400 entries), or one of LDA’s own schemes. RDA: on its approved list with no reservation in its note. CDA: layout plan approved and NOC issued (31 of 70).
• Partly approved. LDA: technical approval only (final approval pending), or approval by a local council (TMA) that LDA lists. RDA: an approved entry whose note says approval is incomplete, provisional or that an extension is illegal. CDA: layout plan approved but no NOC. CDA’s own notice says developers may start work and sell plots only after the NOC.
• Cancelled. CDA has cancelled the layout plan or the NOC.
• Illegal. On the authority’s illegal list.

Not on any list?

A name missing from every list does not prove a society is legal or illegal.

• DHA schemes are approved under their own laws, so DHA Lahore and DHA Islamabad are not on these lists. See our DHA Lahore and DHA Islamabad reviews.
• Cantonment boards and RUDA (the Ravi riverfront project) approve schemes in their own areas.
• Schemes elsewhere in Punjab (Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan and others) are approved by their own development authorities, which this tool doesn’t cover yet.
• Different spelling. Lists use odd spellings and abbreviations (“Ph-II”, “Housing Scheme”, “CHS”). Search one distinctive word, such as “Orchard” rather than “Bahria Orchard Phase 2”.

If a private scheme in Lahore, Rawalpindi district or Islamabad is on none of the lists, ask the developer for the approval letter, then check the letter’s number and date with the authority.

What approval does and doesn’t tell you

Approval means the authority has cleared the layout plan for a given area. It doesn’t tell you that the developer owns all the land, that possession is near, or that the utilities are connected. Those are the other parts of our scoring method. For Lahore, our LDA approved societies guide explains technical and final approval and the 20% of plots mortgaged to LDA. For Islamabad and Rawalpindi, see the best housing societies in Islamabad.

We refresh the lists every month. If an authority has changed an entry since the date shown, the authority’s page is right and ours is out of date. Tell us and we’ll update it.