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Sustainable and Integrated Development of the Tirana-Durres Region EuropeAid/120779/C/SV/AL A Project funded by the European Union in cooperation with Buro Happold 2027 Road development needed in Tirana as a consequence (no major new road development is needed in Durres 2027 Planning Guidance Recommendation 2: Growth of Individual Settlements Where the additional ½m people expected in the region will live is obviously the most important issue for the RDF. Based on the preferred settlement pattern identified above Section 5 identifies principles as follows: 1. rural areas outside the main cities and their new informal suburbs should grow by only 3% over the 20 years if they are In the more remote parts of the region (this being the natural increase that can be expected after some allowance for residents to move to the cities) and rural areas that are less remote should grow by 5% over that period as they may lose less people to the big cities; 2. rural areas near to urban areas should be allowed to grow by 10% over the two decades; 3. told rural areas that have become urban and the new rapidly growing informal settlements of the region should expand by 60% over the twenty years; 4. as should Tirana, by infill within the built up area and redevelopment of older properties at higher densities, and Kruje by the same methods plus the development of a new planned area east of the castle hill - the bulk of the growth of these cities to be within the next fifteen years; Regional Development Framework, December 2007 7
Sustainable and Integrated Development of the Tirana-Durres Region EuropeAid/120779/C/SV/AL A Project funded by the European Union in cooperation with Buro Happold 5. Durres should grow by the same amount (60%) over those 15 years but then continue to expand and double its population by the end of the 20 year period by expanding to the north/north east towards the coast east of Porto Romano, where contaminated land will need to be reclaimed first; and 6. Fushe Kruje and Koder Thumane be doubled in size over the twenty years but with 80% of this growth in the last third of the period, possibly by creating a new city with its own new shopping and service centre in between the two existing small centres. In terms of average gross residential development (gross densities are those within the curtilages of development sites, excluding roads, etc,) it is assumed that the densities will be: • villages in rural areas: 125 people per hectare (pph); • areas defined as switching from rural to urban and all communes except Tirana and Durres: 200 pph; • Durres: 300 pph; and • Tirana: 400 pph. The subject of the relationship between gross residential density and wider city-wide net densities that allow for development of major transport infrastructure, employment areas, educational and health establishments like universities and district hospitals, city scale open space, etc, does not appear to have been systematically examined by academics or practicing planners (unlike the relationship between gross residential density and net residential density which allows for neighbourhood roads, local open spaces and local facilities like shops and schools). What information is available suggests that these would add 70% to the land needed for development outside the gross residential density area. So this is the assumption used to calculate the full amounts of land needed both in total and to achieve the target growth of individual settlements. This comes to just over 3,300 ha across the region over 20 years, or 170 ha a year, on average. Annex 7 shows the results of applying these principles and should become a very important Planning Guidance for the region, one that local government should apply, with central government monitoring closely that it is applied. If new unplanned free standing settlements are to be created to deliver specific objectives, e.g. the construction of rural or coastal tourism developments, then the above targets will have to be adjusted appropriately. In any case, they should, of course, be reviewed in the light of experience and new trends emerging during the life of the RDF. Planning Guidance Recommendation 3: Development in the Countryside All forms of building, at any scale, large or small, should be precluded unless the construction is needed to ensure the survival of an existing use or to achieve a specific Development Objective such as construction of a tourist village. Planning Guidance Recommendation 4: Development in Villages All villages you be given a yellow line which follows as closely as possible the current built-up area boundary but encloses enough land to accommodate the growth targets set in Planning Guidance Recommendation 2. The land for future development should be recycled, ‘brown-field’ land whenever possible. Planning Guidance Recommendation 5: Agreeing Programmes For The Release Of Development Land For Housing In conjunction with representatives of local house-builders, each local authority should agree an annual development target and amount and sites of land to be released for four years ahead and roll it forward every two years. Such targets should be formally approved by central government before being applied. Regional Development Framework, December 2007 8
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