Environmental restrictions in territorial planning schemes of Russian agglomerations

Aim. We consider the environmental restrictions in the development of agglomerations on the territory of Russia, which are taken into account or should be taken into account in the process of developing the schemes for their territorial planning.

Methodology. The work makes use of official statistical data, information from state authorities and local governments, materials from Development Concepts and Territorial Planning Schemes (TPSs) of a number of Russian agglomerations, and the results of the 2021 All-Russian Population Census. As the keys, we study TPSs of Samara-Togliatti, Kavminvodsk and Novosibirsk agglomerations. Various environmental restrictions taken into account in the development of TPSs of agglomerations, selected as the keys for this study, are compared and analyzed.

Results. The main results of the work include the compilation of a list of environmental restrictions on territorial development used in a number of TPSs for agglomerations developed in our country in recent years with references to their legal regime, as well as a comparative analysis of the use of certain environmental restrictions in the development of TPSs of agglomerations located in different types of Russian regions. The analysis shows that the list of environmental restrictions taken into account in the development of the TPS of a particular agglomeration depends not only on the natural, economic-geographical or urban specifics of the planning object. In a number of cases, unreasonable omissions of some restrictions taken into account in other TPSs are noted. The absence of a clearly regulated list of environmental restrictions approved by experts in this field of activity, as well as a unified form for submitting such materials to the TPS of each agglomeration, in our opinion, requires serious improvement.

Research implications. The work is of practical importance, since the analysis of the developed TPSs of Russian agglomerations in regions of various types and, based on its results, a fairly complete (representative) list of the environmental restrictions of prospective territorial development used in them allows using this material for further work in this type of territorial planning. The data on the legal regime of each type of environmental restrictions given in the same list will make it possible to use them in the future in the development of regional strategic documents and territorial planning documents.

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