12.10.2020

The coverage and legal effect of the regional land use plan is not substitutable

The regional leaders commented on the state of preparation of the Land Use and Building Act: A well-functioning design system only needs to be upgraded. Instead of new and partly overlapping planning levels, conditions must be created for the development of planning cooperation and more efficient resourcing.

The current Land Use and Building Act and the land use plan system have been functional in our country's different circumstances and varying control needs. Since 2014, the regional plans have coordinated and solved the needs of renewable energy, especially wind power, for other areas.

Due to its territorial and content coverage, it is not possible to replace a regional plan in cooperation in cooperation with legal effects. The change in the situation of unequivocal legal effect proposed in the draft would lead to constant interpretation and difficulty of interpretation. The role of the authorities becomes more difficult if statements and permit decisions concerning cultural environments or energy production cannot be based on a regional plan in cooperation in cooperation with legal effect. A point-based permit system would remain quite separate in cooperation in cooperation without the comprehensive legal background of the regional land use plan.

Not all municipalities have sufficient resources for comprehensive general planning; instead, municipalities rely heavily on regional-level planning and surveys. If, for example, the sustainable use of natural resources and renewable energy are missing from the legal themes of the regional land use plan, the majority of the non-urban areas will be left in cooperation in cooperation without the planned backbone of land use. The regional plan ensures the possibility of influencing the living environment in all areas. If legislation limits the legal effects of a regional land use plan, it paralyses the possibility of flexibly solving regional and trans-regional land use issues that arise.

From the perspective of the business environment in Northern Ostrobothnia, it is appropriate not to limit the legal effect, or it also concerns, among other things, the sustainable use of natural resources and areas of energy production.

Regional Director Pauli Harju emphasises that the Government's will to electrify Finland will not be realised in cooperation in cooperation without a strong increase in wind power and regional planning supporting the development of wind power projects. In the preparation of the new Land Use and Building Act, the steering effect of the regional plan's natural resources and, for example, wind power would be omitted. This undermines the realisation of renewable energy projects, especially wind power projects on an industrial scale. The coordination of the projects and the social licence are carried out by means of a regional land use plan. Are we moving from a plan bureaucracy to a permit bureaucracy as the significance of complaints grows and the regional will becomes a centralised interpretation of regulations, Harju asks.

regional position paper the preparation of the Land Use and Building Act.