The Land Use Plan of the City of Prague

The Land Use Plan of the City of Prague is the basic urban planning document of the City of Prague. It determines primarily urban planning, basic principles of land organisation and the process of its use, conditions of land use and regulations of spatial arrangement of the territory of the City of Prague and publicly beneficial facilities. The basic scale of the ÚP SÚ HMP is 1:10,000.

Accompanying report of the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague

The land use plan divides the territory of the city into multifunctional areas (such as residential and mixed-use) and mono-functional grounds, including, for example, public facilities, transport, technical facilities or greenery. For functional areas (grounds with different land use) main use, complementary use and exceptional functional use is determined. Every land change must be in accordance with valid regulations.

Drawings of the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague.

Valid regulations are stated in General Administrative Measure No. 6/2009.
A part of the document with valid regulations translated into English you can download here.

In development and transformation areas, generally the extent of the land use defined by the code of extent of land use is determined. This consists of a directive floor area ratio and the greenery ratio and the informative structural area and the built-up area ration. The method of calculation is specified in the Methodical Directive to the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague – the full version from 1 November 2002 – approved by Prague City Council Resolution No. 1774 on 22 October 2002.

Substantial part of the document Methodical Directive translated into English you can download here.

Apart from construction bans for Large Development Areas in Prague, other construction bans also apply.

The Land Use Plan of the City of Prague also defines so-called Large Development Areas (VRÚ), where it is necessary to check the entire land concept by more detailed urban planning documentation or urban planning material. According to the Prague City Decree No. 33/1999 Coll., on a Construction Ban in Large Development Areas of Prague, subsequently amended, a construction ban for VRÚ applies.

Maps of Large Development Areas in the territory of the City of Prague

Apart from VRÚ, the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague also defines the so-called conditionality of buildings. The conditionality of buildings is a binding regulator which specifies conditions and, without their fulfilment, development, construction or use of a specified land or implementation of a concretely stated construction is not possible.

Graphic visualisation of the conditionality of buildings

In accordance with the division of the content of urban planning documentation in the binding and directive part (according to the Building Act valid at the time of the procurement of the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague), two procedures exist for implementing updates to the land use plan.

All interventions concerning binding parts of the urban planning documentation are the subject of a change to the urban planning documentation; for example, alterations to the land-use of an area, most alterations to the boundaries of land-use areas, alterations to a decree, alterations to publicly beneficial facilities, etc. Alterations are approved in a process similar to that by which the urban planning documentation is approved. For some alterations, an assessment of the effect on sustainable development of a territory is also carried out. Alterations to the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague are approved by the Prague Municipal Assembly.

Currently, because of the preparation of the new land use plan, the admission of alterations to ÚP SÚ HMP is suspended (viz Prague Municipal Assembly Resolution No. 14/31 of 28 February 2008). Only so-called significant city-wide alterations in a separate regime of procurement are newly procured.

Alterations currently being considered and an archive of implemented alterations are available to the public on the information server of the Prague City Hall.

Modification of the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague concerns interventions in directive parts of the urban planning documentation. The procurer of the urban planning documentation decides on implementation of modifications in cooperation with the elaborator and with regard to the relevant city borough. In the case of the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague, modifications concern three areas: modifications of codes of the extent of the land use (meaning modification of the land capacity); modifications of directive boundaries of functional specification of the land within the categories residential areas, mixed-use areas or greenery; and modification of directive elements of special use. Modifications are carried out continuously and are not subject to approval by elected authorities of self-government.

Implemented modifications are published on the information server of Prague City Hall.

Process of submitting a suggestion for implementing a modification to the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague