Urban and rural planning must have vision and value for hundreds of years.

(Chinhphu.vn) - Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha emphasized this requirement at a meeting to listen to a report on the draft Law on Urban and Rural Planning on the afternoon of April 5.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha: Urban and rural planning must be detailed down to each plot of land, have a vision, be valuable for hundreds of years, and be implemented in phases according to the socio-economic development strategy - Photo: VGP/Minh Khoi

Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi said that the Ministry has issued a document to receive and explain the opinions of Government members at the thematic meeting on law making in March 2024.

Accordingly, the Draft Law on Urban and Rural Planning defines types of urban and rural planning including: Urban and rural system planning; urban planning for centrally-run cities, cities, towns, and townships; rural planning for districts and communes; functional area planning for areas with special characteristics; underground space planning, specialized technical infrastructure planning for centrally-run cities.

Urban areas nationwide are classified into special type, type I, type II, type III, type IV, type V, based on location, function, role, structure and level of socio-economic development; scale, population density; infrastructure and architecture, urban landscape; and proportion of non-agricultural labor.

At the meeting, representatives of ministries and branches continued to discuss and clarify the relationship between the levels of general planning, zoning planning, and detailed planning; the content of rural planning; the validity period of planning; the process, procedures, and conditions for decentralization and delegation of authority to localities to approve and adjust local planning; ensuring consistency with the laws on investment, construction, land, environmental protection, public asset management, etc.

Concluding the meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister stated that planning is an important tool for urban and rural management and development. The Ministry of Construction must provide a solid basis to determine the subjects and scope of the Law on Urban and Rural Planning, as well as the relationship with the Law on Planning and other laws, ensuring no overlap or legal gaps.

The Deputy Prime Minister noted that it is necessary to supplement regulations on the time limit for establishing and approving detailed planning after having a general planning and zoning planning - Photo: VGP/Minh Khoi

From world experience and Vietnam's practice, the Ministry of Construction needs to clarify the relationship between general planning, zoning planning, and detailed planning, ensuring consistency and consistency in planning philosophy.

"Urban and rural planning must be detailed down to each plot of land, with a vision and value of hundreds of years, and be implemented in phases according to each stage of the socio-economic development strategy," said the Deputy Prime Minister, noting that it is necessary to add regulations on the time limit for establishing and approving detailed planning after having a general plan and zoning plan.

Regarding the regulations on decentralization and delegation of authority to localities in local planning adjustments, the Deputy Prime Minister requested institutionalization into criteria, conditions, and monitoring mechanisms; at the same time, summarize the pilot implementation of decentralization and procedures for approving local adjustments to general planning for functional area construction, local adjustments to general urban planning, local adjustments to specialized technical infrastructure planning... in a number of localities to include in the law.

Minh Khoi - Government Portal

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