Objects of urban technical infrastructure planning in Vietnam

Objects of urban technical infrastructure planning in Vietnam (Internet image) 

1. What is urban center?

According to Clause 1, Article 3 of the Law on Urban Planning 2009, urban center is an area with a dense population mainly engaged in non-agricultural economic activities, which is a political, administrative, economic, cultural or specialized center playing the role of promoting the socio­economic development of a country, a territorial region or a locality, and consists of inner city and suburbs, for a city; inner town and outskirts, for a town; and townships.

2. Objects of urban technical infrastructure planning in Vietnam

Specifically, in Article 36 of the Law on Urban Planning 2009, urban technical infrastructure planning shall be conducted for the following objects:

- Urban transport:

- Urban base heights and surface water drainage;

- Urban water supply;

- Urban wastewater drainage;

- Energy supply and urban lighting;

- Information and communication;

- Cemeteries and solid waste treatment.

3. Contents of urban technical infrastructure planning in Vietnam 

Contents of urban technical infrastructure planning include:

- Urban transport planning must indicate land funds reserved for transport construction and development, locations and sizes of key works; organization of the urban transport system on the ground, overhead and underground; and the scope of protection and corridors for traffic safety.

- Base height and urban surface water drainage planning must indicate areas favorable for construction in each area and urban center: main basins for water drainage, and areas where construction is banned and restricted; standard construction ground floor level, network of surface water drainage and key works; and measures of preventing and mitigating damage caused by natural disasters.

- Urban water supply planning must indicate the need for and selection of water sources; locations and sizes of water supply works, including the networks of transmission and distribution, water plants, cleaning stations, scope of protection of water sources and protection corridors of water supply facilities;

- Urban wastewater drainage planning must indicate the total volume of wastewater, locations and sizes of water drainage works, including networks of drainage pipelines, wastewater drainage plants and stations, sanitation distance from and corridors of protection of urban wastewater drainage works.

- Energy supply and lighting planning must indicate energy use needs, supply sources, requirements of locations and size of key works, transmission and distribution networks: safety corridors and scopes of protection of works: and comprehensive solutions for urban lighting.

- Information and communications planning must indicate information transmission routes, locations and sizes of satellite stations, switchboards and auxiliary works.

- Solid waste treatment planning must indicate the total volume of solid waste, locations and sizes of transfer depots, solid waste treatment facilities, auxiliary works and sanitation distance from solid waste treatment facilities.

- Cemetery planning must indicate burial needs, locations, sizes and boundaries of cemeteries, functional sub-zones, arrangement of technical infrastructure works and sanitation distance from cemeteries.

(Article 37 of the Law on Urban Planning 2009)

3. Principles on the formulation of a specialized technical infrastructure plan in Vietnam

Specifically, in Article 21 of Decree 37/2010/ND-CP, the principles on the formulation of a specialized technical infrastructure plan are as follows:

- A specialized technical infrastructure plan shall be formulated for every centrally run city in order to concretize technical infrastructure planning orientations in its general plan, ensuring sufficient grounds for making investment projects to build an urban technical infrastructure system.

- A specialized technical infrastructure plan shall cover every technical infrastructure object in the whole city.

- The details of a specialized technical infrastructure plan must conform with the approved general plan of the centrally run city.

Thanh Rin

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