The Role of Spatial Plans Adopted at the Local Level in the Spatial Planning Systems of Central and Eastern European Countries
Maciej Nowak,
Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor,
Andrei Mitrea,
Krisztina Filepné Kovács,
Gunta Lukstina,
Evelin Jürgenson,
Zuzana Ladzianska,
Velislava Simeonova,
Roman Lozynskyy,
Vit Rezac,
Viktoriya Pantyley,
Birute Praneviciene,
Liudmila Fakeyeva,
Bartosz Mickiewicz,
Małgorzata Blaszke
Affiliations
Maciej Nowak
Department of Real Estate, Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor
Doctoral School of Urban Planning, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, 10014 Bucharest, Romania
Andrei Mitrea
Department of Urban Planning and Territorial Development, School of Urban Planning, Iron Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning, 010014 Bucharest, Romania
Krisztina Filepné Kovács
Department of Landscape Planning and Regional Development, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 2100 Gödöllő, Hungary
Gunta Lukstina
Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia, LV-1004 Riga, Latvia
Evelin Jürgenson
Chair of Forest and Land Management and Wood Processing Technologies, Institute of Forestry and Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, 51006 Tartu, Estonia
Zuzana Ladzianska
SPECTRA EU Centre of Excellence, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Vazovova 5, 841 02 Bratislava, Slovakia
Velislava Simeonova
Faculty of Geography and History, Department of Geography, University of Barcelona, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
Roman Lozynskyy
Department of Geography of Ukraine, Faculty of Geography, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 79000 Lviv, Ukraine
Vit Rezac
Spatial Planning Department, Faculty of Architecture of Czech Technical University in Prague, 160 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Viktoriya Pantyley
Department of Social and Economic Geography, Institute of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-718 Lublin, Poland
Birute Praneviciene
Academy of Public Security, Law and Law Enforcement Institute, Mykolas Romeris University, K-210 Kaunas, Lithuania
Liudmila Fakeyeva
Business School, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK
Bartosz Mickiewicz
Department of Regional and European Studies, Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Małgorzata Blaszke
Department of Regional and European Studies, Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
The article deals with the issue of spatial plans at the local level. The aims of this paper are (1) extracting the characteristics of local spatial plans that can be compared more broadly (2) identifying, on this basis, the role of spatial plans at the local level in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In achieving these aims, the authors have critically examined spatial plans and their performance, as well as the planning systems they belong to. Hence, they have investigated the types of local plans in each country, their legal features, and the layout of their content. This examination has revealed a host of problems in the workings of the CEE planning systems. The article highlights those spatial planning issues that could be the subject of more in-depth international comparisons. The study provides additional evidence that in countries where spatial plans are legislated, there are more (mutually differentiated) legal problems in their application. Such problems have been analyzed. Besides procedural problems, discrepancies between the contents of different types of plans (e.g., general plans and detailed plans) are very often a problem. The paper also proposes a novel method for detailed comparisons of selected aspects of spatial plans. It can be applied to a large number of countries and also to other aspects of spatial planning. Last but not least, the paper emphasizes the need for a detailed multi-stage consultation of each aspect to be compared.
