Planowanie przestrzenne a zrównoważony rozwój obszarów wiejskich

Abstract

Today, the issue related to spatial planning in rural areas takes on particular significance. In this context a reference to the views of Professor W. Pańko is justified, as they remain perfectly stable. The planning is an instrument promoted by EU which enables permanent and sustainable development of rural areas. The planning is an imminent and integral element of the notion covering the management, as it concerns spatial planning in any economy system. The issue of spatial planning in rural areas should be viewed from the point of view of its functions (synchronisation, coordination and information), where the two last ones takes on particular significance for development of them. The coordination function plays an important role for the policy to support development of rural areas from the Union and national resources; it is expressed in the contents of local master plans and relates to the coordination of actions, as well as the organisation of cooperation among entities operating on the areas in concern and bringing together their interests. The information function, their place and actions in which satisfies openness and transparency of planning procedures gives all entities the awareness of their place and actions in economic space and its value. Construction elements of the prescriptive model of spatial planning ensure logic link between documents which designs spatial management of a commune (strategies of commune development, the spatial development conditions and directions study, local master plans) aim to ensure the spatial order and the sustainable development of communes in rural areas. The process of using the specified mechanisms is a very comprehensive, long-lasting, time consuming and expensive process, therefore there is a huge gap between the prescriptive model and the actual process of spatial development of rural communes. Current prescriptive model of spatial planning gives almost the same attention to the organisation of agricultural space as the legal regulation of 70s of the XX century. This raises the question on the adequacy of the referred model to organise development processes of the current agriculture, as on the one hand the model (the study and the local master plan) seems all perfect, then costly and heavy, and on the other hand a stream of funds for development of rural areas it is intended not only for the agriculture, but also for the whole multi-functional rural area. As the notion of a rural area is not the same as the notion of an agricultural manufacturing space then the concept of multi-functional rural areas should be matched by its expression and reflection in the instruments of spatial planning. However, the provisions of the act on spatial planning and development fail to pay attention to this issue special interest. In the paper’s content the Author seeks to respond to the dilemmas on this matter.