📋 Tender Overview
The President signed the amendment to the provisions on spatial planning and development. It will now be possible to adopt a new local plan in 8-9 months. So far, this has often taken years.
It is a Copernican revolution in planning. We simplify regulations so that communes can quickly and efficiently adopt general plans and local plans. An end to the mess in the space of Polish cities and villages, an end to the uncontrolled spreading of buildings and patdeweloper in places inappropriate for this
– said Minister of Development and Technology Waldemar Buda.
Master plan
The amendment introduces a new planning tool - a general plan, a document in the rank of a local law act, which will be adopted on an obligatory basis for the entire commune. Local governments will have until January 1, 2026 to do so.
The general plan will replace the previous study of the conditions and directions of the commune's spatial development. It will be a document containing only basic arrangements that will allow the commune to plan sustainable and harmonious development. Importantly, its findings will be the basis not only for the adoption of local plans, but also for issuing decisions on development conditions.
We provide local governments with the tools to efficiently adopt local plans. Now it often takes years. We want to simplify and shorten this process so that work on the local plan can be completed in 8 months or less than a year
– says Piotr U?ci?ski, Deputy Minister of Development and Technology.
Importantly, the general plan will be in digital form, which will solve the current problems that in the traditional, paper version of the study and development plans, the lines drawn in them, e.g. marking the boundaries between individual zones, are not so precise that they can be interpreted to the square meter on the ground. The digital version will allow you to freely enlarge the map, so it will be much more accurate.
consultations
In spatial planning, an important element is the arrangements and opinions on plans - with many different institutions, with environmental protection authorities, with the conservator of monuments, services dealing with water management, air traffic, etc. The amendment to the act shortens the deadlines for these arrangements.
Integrated investment plan
A new form of the local plan will be an integrated investment plan drawn up at the investor's request, which will eventually replace the resolution on determining the location of a residential investment, issued so far on the basis of the so-called of the special housing act. After signing an urban development agreement with the commune, the investor may be obliged, for example, to build a school or support such an investment.
Other changes
The draft clarifies the provisions concerning decisions on development conditions, e.g. by the possibility for the commune to determine in which areas they will be issued or by limiting the range of the analyzed area to 200 m.
The Act also provides for the launch of a free-of-charge and on-line Urban Planning Register, which will be a reliable source of information on space and all administrative procedures.
Most of the provisions of the signed act will come into force after 30 days from the date of publication.
