LUCKNOW, June 30 -- From basements converted into commercial spaces to a bar allegedly operating from a sanctioned open terrace at a prominent riverside hotel near the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) headquarters in Gomti Nagar, a joint inspection of 122 commercial establishments uncovered widespread violations of approved building plans. The LDA has ordered notices, legal action and sealing of properties that fail to remove the violations, officials said.

At the same hotel, inspectors also found an allegedly unauthorised underground structure beneath the green belt area leased to the same hotel, indicating unauthorised use of leased land.

Reviewing the inspection report on Tuesday, LDA chairman and divisional commissioner Vijay Vis...