Detailed development plan provisions whichcomplicate plan implementationOccurrence and utilization

Abstract: For  a  long  period  of  time  it  has  been  known  that  detailed  development  plans  contain provisions that are difficult to implement. In 2011, the Swedish government assigned the cadastral authority to identify the gravity of the problem by sending out 384 questionnaires to cadastral surveyors. These cadastral surveyors specified whether the detailed development plans  contained  provisions  that  could  be  difficult  to  implement.  In  this  thesis,  the questionnaires are reviewed, and in order to have a deeper understanding of the reasons why these provisions are still used, interviews were carried out with five detailed development planners in different municipalities. The results from the questionnaires illustrates the following: two percent of the detailed development plans contain land that is reserved for a joint facility and for a public purpose, and five percent was for land that was not localized. In five percent there were no special reasons for the municipality for not mandating public places. The description of the plans lacked information about how the plan could be carried out in 35 percent of the plans. From the interviews it appears that the land reservation which were not localized were used because they did not want to lock the plan to existing conditions. Through the land reserve for a joint facility and for public land the municipality wanted to secure public access to private land and at the same time not have to pay for the public area. In many of the detailed development  plans  the  municipalities  did  not  mandate  for  public  spaces  because  the neighbourhood had private mandating. According to one municipality they gave priority to the design of the plan before the implementation. Another one said that it was hard to decide which questions they had to solve in the plan and which ones belonged to the cadastral authority.  However,  the  development  planners  consider  the  consultation  as  a  pragmatic method to get input on the plan. In summary, the municipalities need more guidance to enforce the plan and the know-how of the provisions needed to implement the plan efficiently.