08 conditions for adjusting urban and rural planning in Vietnam from July 01, 2025

08 conditions for adjusting urban and rural planning in Vietnam from July 01, 2025​ (Image from Internet)

08 conditions for adjusting urban and rural planning in Vietnam from July 01, 2025

According to the provisions at Article 45 of the Urban and Rural Planning Law 2024, the conditions for adjusting urban and rural planning include:

- Adjustments to the strategy for socio-economic development, national defense, security, planning within the national planning system, or adjustments to higher-level urban and rural planning that alter the contents of the approved planning.

- Adjustments in administrative boundaries or conflicts between urban and rural plans affecting the nature, function, scale of the urban area, district, commune, functional zone, or planning area, except as specified in point a, clause 2, Article 8 of the Urban and Rural Planning Law 2024.

“Article 8. Ensuring the Compatibility of Construction Investment Projects with Urban and Rural Planning

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2. The determination of planning is conducted to ensure compatibility of construction investment projects with planning in cases of conflicts between urban and rural plans, implemented according to the following provisions:

a) When there is a conflict between urban and rural plans of the same level, with the same approving authority, the competent approving body decides the plan to be implemented; if at the same level but different approving bodies, the higher competent authority decides the plan to be implemented. Approved planning contents must be updated and reflected in the planning dossier;”

- Projects approved by the National Assembly, the Prime Minister regarding investment policy, investor approval, simultaneous investment policy and investor approval as per public investment law, investment in the public-private partnership method, and investment affecting the use of land, architectural space of the planned and approved area.

- Changes in climate, geology, hydrology conditions, or impacts of natural disasters, war, or demands ensuring national defense and security affecting the use of land, architectural space of the planned and approved area.

- Serving national and community interests when changing land use needs for technical and social infrastructure according to developmental policy of the period or changes in planning land use indicators, average residential floor area per capita according to the locality’s housing development plan based on ensuring no overload of technical and social infrastructure of the planned and approved area.

- Urban and rural planning cannot be implemented, or implementation adversely affects socio-economic development, national defense, security, social welfare, and the ecological, historical, cultural environment.

- Construction investment projects have been permitted for adjustment in investment policy by competent authorities as per legal regulations impacting land use and project site spatial organization.

- Necessary adjustments regarding the boundary or certain planning land use indicators or adjustments to specialized technical requirements for land plots to implement concentrated construction investment projects or standalone projects in the area planned and approved in detail.

Refer to more details at the Urban and Rural Planning Law 2024 which comes into effect from July 1, 2025.

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