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.
The Goleniów Municipality is situated in the North-Western part of Poland, 35 km from Szczecin and 65 km from Świnoujście. Its total area is 444 km2. The population of the town of Goleniów is about 23,000 inhabitants, and the population of the municipality altogether is about 33,000. It is an industryagricultural municipality, with a domination of the furniture and wood processing, cardboard and tin packages, chemical, textile and food branches. The Goleniów Industrial Park (GIP) is a fully developed area of 305 ha, designed to suit the needs of industrial production and services. In the GIP, a Special Economic Zone is located, which is a subzone of the Kostrzyń-Słubice Special Economic Zone. A very important part of the spatial policy is disposal of commune estates.
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