Regulations on evaluation of urban planning tasks and plans in Vietnam

According to Article 31 of Decree No. 37/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, the order and procedures for evaluating and approving urban planning tasks and plans are prescribed as follows:

- Submitting and approving agencies:

+ The Ministry of Construction shall evaluate and submit to the Prime Minister for approval urban planning tasks and plans falling within its formulating responsibility and those assigned by the Prime Minister;

+ Provincial-level People's Committees shall submit to the Ministry of Construction for evaluation and submission to the Prime Minister for approval urban planning tasks and plans falling within the approving competence of the Prime Minister, excluding urban planning referred to at Point a of this Clause;

+ Agencies organizing the formulation of urban planning shall submit to provincial-level planning management agencies for evaluation and submission to provincial-level People's Committees for approval urban planning tasks and plans falling within the approving competence of provincial-level People's Committees;

+ Provincial-level urban planning management agencies shall evaluate and submit to provincial-level People's Committees for approval urban planning tasks and plans falling within the formulating competence of provincial-level People's Committees and urban plans formulated by investors of construction investment projects:

+ District-level urban planning management agencies shall evaluate and submit to district-level People's Committees for approval urban planning tasks and plans falling within the formulating competence of district-level People's Committees and urban plans formulated by investors of construction investment projects;

+ Investors of construction investment projects shall submit to provincial-level urban planning management agencies for evaluation urban plans falling within the approving competence of provincial-level People's Committees; or to district-level urban planning management agencies for evaluation urban plans falling within the approving competence of district-level People's Committees.

- Tasks of evaluating agencies:

Agencies evaluating urban planning shall base themselves on opinions of related agencies, evaluation councils and contents of planning tasks and plans to send documents to submitting agencies for completing urban planning tasks and plans. After receiving complete urban planning task and plan dossiers, evaluating agencies shall report on evaluation contents to agencies with approving competence for consideration and decision.

- Approving agencies:

+ For general plans of urban centers of grade IV or higher, provincial-level People's Committees shall obtain written agreement of the Ministry of Construction before approving them.

+ For urban plans falling within their approving competence, district-level People's Committees shall obtain written agreement of provincial-level planning management agencies before approving them.

View details at Decree No. 37/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from May 25, 2010.

Nguyen Phu

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