Spatial Policy of Selected Communes in Vicinity of Warsaw in Scope of Land Consolidation Areas and Secondary Land Property Divisions

Abstract

The aim of this article was to analyze planning documents-a study of the preconditions and guidelines of spatial development of communes and local spatial development plans-in the context of regulations related to the division into building plots. The analysis was carried out on the examples of selected communes near Warsaw, and planning documents from the years of 1995-2016 were evaluated. This analysis has shown that the issue of land consolidation and the secondary divisions of plots is omitted in studies of the preconditions and guidelines of spatial development. Only exceptionally adjustments are made to the existing parcel divisions in the local plans. Most of them are adapted even when they are not suitable for new functions. It is up to the owners of the properties to make their way of sharing, including internal communication. The rules for the division of land into building plots are mostly in the form of postulates. The minimum plot area was established by a single planning regulation. The minimization or lack of planning regulations in this subject may lead to defective spatial structures, costly in the eventual future process of improving utility standards. There are-on analyzed areas-not only individual plots developed in this way but even entire quarters, cut by a grid of long and narrow streets, serving plots that are difficult to be properly built.

The Other Side of the Urban Densification ‘Coin’: Impacts on Social Sustainability in Redeveloped Urban Sprawled Communities in United Arab Emirates

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