Rules to be made easier for building in health resorts?

2010-02-19

The Parliamentary Committee for Local Government and Regional Policy has prepared a draft amendment to current legislation regulating spa treatment centres, health resorts, health care areas and health resort municipalities with the aim of facilitating construction investments in such areas, we read in Rzeczpospolita.
Under the rules currently in force municipalities which are awarded health resort status must pass a spatial development plan within two years. If they fail to do so, they cannot issue zoning permits and this paralyses the progress of all construction investments. The solution proposed in the draft amendment calls is to introduce a spatial management plan only for the most protected zone (zone A), thanks to which the rest of a health resort municipality will be able to apply for a zoning permit. Moreover, the draft provisions also stipulate that health resort status need not apply to an entire town or municipality, but only to certain parts. The architects of the bill are also in favour of more relaxed rules regarding the size of green areas in both A zones (reducing it from 75% to 65% of the total area) and B zones (from 55 to 50%), because the current rules in force are so rigorous that they will lead to the disappearance of many health resorts, especially in coastal areas.

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