The Instruments for the Implementation of Territorial Plans and Land Management by the Public Administration.

Abstract

The territorial planning and the management of urban development in Albania was one of the greatest challenges of the administration, both at the central and local level. The planning, until after the proclamation of independence, has been an important element, in the administration’s hands, used in the context of the organisation of the new Albanian state, especially in Tirana. 2009 marks an important reform in the urban legislation with the introduction of the law “For Territorial Planning" and the regulations adopted for its application. The reform sign a change in the notion of territorial planning, passing by the concept of urban planning, as definition of the general rules for the location and architecture of the buildings in all the Albanian territory, in a concept of territorial planning as a whole, organised into four levels clearly defined. The law defines the new instruments to be used by the administration, in the planning and management of the territory, where a particular importance remain the special instruments to monitor the land development. The drafting of planning instruments, and especially of the plans and regulations, is followed by their implementation in a specific territory. This last phase has presented particular issues after the 90s as, regarding the regulatory plans of municipalities. The expropriation for public interest, as an instrument used for the construction of infrastructure and services in implementation of territorial plans will be subject of analysis, focusing also in other instruments of the legislation for territorial planning. The study has as objective to analyse the instruments provided by the law for territorial planning, the way in which they can be used by the local administration during the drafting and especially during the implementation of territorial plans.