Information on the Development of Updates No. 8 and No. 9 of the Spatial Development Policy of the Czech Republic, by Filip Novosád, Hana Máchová, Jakub Kotrla
The article brings information about the development of updates to the national tool of spatial planning, which is the Spatial Development Policy of the Czech Republic, namely updates No. 8 and No. 9. Both updates will be developed and discussed in accordance with the New Building Act.
Decree on Spatial Analytical Documents, Spatial Planning Documentation and Uniform Standard, by Adam Balcar, Kateřina Vrbová, Josef Morkus
Following the end of the transitional period, on 1 July 2024, a part of the Building Act No. 283/2021 Coll., the Building Act, relating to spatial planning, comes into force. On the same date, the Implementation Decree No. 157/2024 Coll., on spatial analytical documents, spatial planning documentation and uniform standard comes into force as well.
Decrees on the New Building Act. Decree on the Designation of Municipal Building Authorities, Decree on Building Documentation, Decree on Building Requirements and Decree on the Implementation of Certain Provisions of the Building Act, by Eva Fialová, Ondřej Černý, Martin Daněk, Gabriela Krauszová, Daniel Tydrych
The development of the decrees was initiated in connection with the approval of Act No. 283/2021 Coll., the Building Act, as amended, which introduces fundamental changes in the institutional area, significant procedural changes in the field of building regulations, including the digitisation of the building agenda and changes to substantive building law. This Act empowers the Ministry of Regional Development in Section 333(1) to issue legal regulations - decrees to implement specific provisions in the field of construction administration, building regulations, supervision in matters of building regulations, activities of authorised inspectors and substantive building law. The decrees described below have been published in the Collection of Laws and International Treaties and shall come into force on 1 July 2024.
Studies and Plans Supported within the Framework of the NCA Czech Republic Project Scheme in the OPE
2021–2027, by Lukáš Martínek
The article provides information about the announcement of this year’s call of the Operational Programme Environment in the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic Project Scheme for subsidies to support the development of spatial landscape studies and plans of the Territorial System of Ecological Stability.
Micro-Scale Monitoring and Modelling of Air Quality; A Case Study of Prague-Legerova Hot-Spot, by Jan Geletič, Petra Bauerová, Michal Belda, Martin Bureš, Kryštof Eben, Vladimír Fuka, Radek Jareš, Jan Karel, Josef Keder, Pavel Krč, William Patiño, Tereza Pikousová, Jelena Radović, Jaroslav Resler, Hynek Řezníček, Adriana Šindelářová, Ondřej Vlček
Deteriorated air quality in cities worldwide is a current problem city administrations face. With the growing mobility requirements of the population living in cities, the number of registered cars and traffic intensity keeps increasing. Numerous studies emphasize the significant contribution of anthropogenic activity to deteriorated air quality. Initiatives linked to promoting bicycle transport, electromobility, or reducing car traffic as the primary source of pollution in urban areas are beginning to appear. However, simple solutions such as adding bicycle lanes or widening existing roads are often not applicable in European cities with heritage-protected historic centers. Modern numerical models are becoming mature enough to serve as a basis for reliable tools providing quantification of the impact of automobile traffic and significant anthropogenic sources in high-fidelity resolution - up to metre scale. However, several important limitations resulting from high-resolution processes need to be considered. First of all, models require very detailed input data about air quality; this includes the transport of pollution from outside the area of interest, emissions from local sources, or resuspension. Second, simulations using numerical models need to be properly validated. Particulate matter, as well as nitrogen (di-)oxide, are highly variable both in space and time. Finally, air quality strongly depends on meteorological conditions. Air quality models typically use national forecast models or regional climate models as meteorological drivers. Our results suggested that currently, no one model can be considered “best” for all potential applications. It seems to be beneficial to test at least two or three different models to analyse potential over- or under-estimation of the results. Practically, the article aims to point out the complexity of measuring and modelling air pollution at micro-scale resolution and uncertainties in fine-scale model resolution.
Delimiting Green Infrastructure in Spatial Planning Documentation as a Tool for Strengthening Ecosystem
Services in the Territory, by Petr Kučera
In 2023, the Ministry of Regional Development certified a new methodology for the implementation of green infrastructure in spatial planning activities. The methodology responds to the current activity of the European Union in environmental protection. Ecosystem services are used to address the impacts of global climate change while spatial planning can create spatial preconditions for its application by introducing the components of green (green-blue) infrastructure.
Risks of Flash Floods and Erosion - Challenges for Spatial Planning Related to the Impacts of Climate Change, by Petr Kavka, Simona Vondráčková, Josef Krása, Tomáš Dostál, Jiří Kupka
The adaptation of settlements and their surroundings to climate change is a current challenge for spatial planning. Rising average temperatures are increasing the number of water deficit days, as well as the number of intense shortterm storm rainfall periods that threaten settlements, their infrastructure and the surrounding landscape. Spatial planning documentation should, in accordance with the objectives and tasks of spatial planning, prepare the spatial conditions for the economic use of the territory and the prevention of the effects of climate change. The designs should comply with the natural spatial conditions and take into account the risks already identified in the territory. The article outlines potential challenges and conflicts related to drainage conditions and spatial development. It presents the available tools and background information for the identification of potential risks and problems in the territory, including the implementation of appropriate measures through spatial planning tools.
Patchwork of Spatial Planning and Landscape Tools from the Perspective of Local Government, by Petr Klápště
Landscape studies represent nowadays in fact the only tool to be used by spatial planning to protect, maintain and create landscapes in a detail that truly corresponds to the links and scale of most of the topics addressed, from landscape character to permeability, water regime and biodiversity. The spatial plan on the one hand addresses too small a piece of the territory, which most of the links go beyond, and the spatial development principles are on the other hand, too distant in scale. The landscape operates at a regional scale, i.e. the administrative district of the municipality with extended powers while local government and its budgets do not. When a local politician emerges with the ambition to “do it right”, he finds out that he has to look for a way of combining several tools and arranging them in a rather atypical way. This reflection describes how this path is being approached in Jablonec nad Nisou, where the author has been in charge of spatial planning as a non-exempt member of the city council since 2022.
The Importance of Agricultural Areas in the Spatial Plan, by Vladimír Mackovič
Areas with different types of use (hereafter referred to as areas) are used in the spatial plan to project the spatial plan draft into the addressed area. The article presents the author’s approach to the method of delimitation of agricultural areas in the landscape layout concept draft for expert discussion. The approach described below aims at a desirable way of projecting the phenomenon of agricultural land into the spatial plan layout and thus establishing framework conditions for changes and use of agricultural land in the addressed area.
The first part makes the reader familiar with the general guidelines for delimiting areas with different types of use. These guidelines are subsequently applied to the delimitation of agricultural areas. The third part characterises and justifies the approach to incorporating multifunctional agricultural land into the landscape layout concept. The goal of the characterized approach is to (1) meaningfully differentiate between the enhanced productive and non-productive values of agricultural land in the addressed area, (2) respect the specific conditions in the area and the different demands on the environment, (3) signal the need for adaptation measures, and (4) indicate areas that require more detailed management of threatened or deteriorated agricultural landscapes.
Landscape Spatial Study of the Administrative District of the Roudnice nad Labem Municipality with Extended
Powers, by Kamila Kloubská, Jana Kubrichtová
The spatial study of the administrative district of our municipality with extended powers started to be developed in 2016 with the development of the tender documentation and the submission of the funding application. At that time, the study addressed the greatest challenges of the landscape under the Říp hill, which were mainly large plots of agricultural land and the associated erosion and (non)permeability of the landscape, disturbance of the water regime and the existing or prospective gravel extraction. Today we would approach the study differently. In 2016, we did not know that we would be issuing binding opinions of the planning authority and did not anticipate the energy crisis and the associated pressure on renewable energy production, particularly photovoltaic and wind power from the perspective of the landscape and the administrative district of our municipality with extended powers.
The Background Story of the Landscape Spatial Study of the Administrative District of the Hořice Municipality
with Extended Powers, by Helena Vanická
The article deals with the use of a subsidy from the Integrated Regional Operational Programme for landscape spatial studies for the administrative district of a municipality with extended powers. It describes the reasons for the development, process and outputs of the landscape spatial study. It also summarises the importance of the subsidy and the role of experts in spatial planning. It discusses the possibilities of implementing the outputs and measures proposed in the landscape. In the final part, it presents the experience of the procurer its use.
The Background Story of the Park by the Water, by Tomáš Richtr
The year is 2015. We are in the Prague 7 district in an area that resembles a public space only with the greatest amount of imagination. A place to be avoided, bounded by a high flood barrier and rusty fencing. Most of the area along the river is composed of concrete panels with parked cars, decaying remnants of the industrial period and neglected greenery. The amount of litter and strange individuals hanging around the bridge structures evidently prevent visitors from coming. The site is impenetrable and closed off by the port’s technical structures on one side and a concrete plant on the other. Truly a place ideal for a future city park.
Three Factors Newly Emerging in the World of Urbanism, by Jiří Löw
This article represents a reflection on the changing conditions of contemporary life of our population in terms of the impact of three major factors - climate change, information technologies and an increasing share of our leisure time - on the landscape and the urban environment.
Replacement of the Public Law Contract, by Tomáš Pavlovský
The article deals with the institution of public law contracts from the perspective of a practising architect. The author of the article draws attention to the advantages of this concept represented especially by the speed of issuing building permits and thus a faster return of the incurred investment funds. It also mentions the new legislation dealing with this concept.
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