SPATIAL PLANNING Key Instrument for Development and Effective Governance
2008 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) During the early phases of ‘transition’ of many former communist countries of central and eastern Europe and beyond, Dominic Stead and Vincent Nadin prepared this short text on ‘spatial planning’ following an initiative of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management, who also guided the document’s production. The objective was to promote the notion of spatial planning - the coordination of the territorial impacts of sectoral policies. The document is now rather dated, but is no less relevant in the 2020s. We hope to update both the content and presentation soon.
2008 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
During the early phases of ‘transition’ of many former communist countries of central and eastern Europe and beyond, Dominic Stead and Vincent Nadin prepared this short text on ‘spatial planning’ following an initiative of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management, who also guided the document’s production. The objective was to promote the notion of spatial planning - the coordination of the territorial impacts of sectoral policies. The document is now rather dated, but is no less relevant in the 2020s. We hope to update both the content and presentation soon.
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Framework plan/
instrument
Greenfield site
Infrastructure
Land use
Land-use planning
Local authority/
Local government
Local plan
Natural capital
Planning
instrument
Planning permits/
Planning
permission
Planning system
Previously
developed land
An instrument providing a general spatial framework for a town or city.
It is implemented through more detailed regulatory instruments, and is
sometimes described as a municipal masterplan.
Land (or a defined site), usually farmland, that has not previously been
developed.
Basic services necessary for development to take place, for example,
roads, electricity, sewerage, water, education and health facilities.
The way land is used or developed.
The systematic assessment of land and water potential, alternative
patterns of land use and other physical, social and economic conditions,
for the purpose of selecting and adopting the land-use options which are
most beneficial to land users without degrading the resources or the
environment, together with the selection of measures most likely to
encourage such land uses. Land-use planning may be at international,
national, district (project, catchment) or local (village) levels. It includes
participation by land users, planners and decision makers, and covers
educational, legal, fiscal and financial measures.
The lowest tier of elected government. There may be more than one tier
of local government.
A plan that sets out detailed policies and specific proposals for the
development and use of land in a district and guides most day-to-day
planning decisions.
An extension of the economic notion of capital (manufactured means of
production) to environmental “goods and services”. It refers to a stock
(e.g., a forest) which produces a flow of goods (e.g. new trees) and
services (e.g. carbon sequestration, erosion control, habitat).
The means by which planning policy is expressed and implemented,
including local plans, briefs and other map-based documents; itmay also
include fiscal or other measures.
Formal approval sought from a council, often granted with conditions,
allowing a proposed development to proceed.
The combination of legal, institutional and other arrangements in place in
a country or region for undertaking spatial planning. The elements of a
system may not be interdependent, but will be interrelated in their impact
on spatial development.
See Brownfield.
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