OVERESTIMATION OF SETTLEMENT AREAS IN GENERAL LAND-USE PLANS IN LIGHT OF THE 2015 LEGAL AMENDMENTS. THE CASE OF RADOM FUNCTIONAL URBAN AREA.

Tomasz Piotr Zaborowski

Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9656-5169

Abstract

The lack of legal requirement to base the extent of assumed urban growth on demographic prognoses led to a significant overestimation of settlement areas designated in municipal general land-use plans [studia uwarunkowań i kierunków zagospodarowania przestrzennego]. The amendment of the spatial planning act made in 2015 introduced such a requirement that should have restrained further escalating of the mentioned phenomenon. The first aim of the research was to assess the overestimation of residential areas designated in municipal general land-use plans in the functional urban area of Radom (ROF) that were based on the former regulations. The second research aim was to verify whether the new general land-use plan of a Radom suburb municipality of Kowala aligns with the premises of the mentioned amendment of the planning act. The research has shown that residential areas designated in the general land-use plans of ROF municipalities have been significantly overestimated. The analysis of the new general land-use plan of Kowala municipality has indicated that the plan perpetuates current overestimation of designated residential land. It implies that the premises of the 2015 planning act amendment have not been pursued.

Keywords:

general land-use plan, suburbanization, functional urban area, residential areas, oversupply of developable land, Poland