India, May 20 -- Space-starved Mumbai is set to lose even more public open space, of the little that's left. The BMC has initiated steps to change the reservation on three plots - two in South Mumbai and one in Bandra - which would alter their status under the city's Development Plan.

If the proposal goes through, two plots in Malabar Hill reserved as gardens will be redesignated as "residential", while a football field at Bandra Reclamation, in Bandra west, will lose ground to an exhibition centre.

To allow the reservations under the Development Plan (DP) 2034 to be altered, the civic body has moved separate proposals under Section 37(1) of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966. The proposals will be tabled at the civic ...