Planning Law

44B0040

Bachelor

German

5.0

only winter term

1 semester

In planning practice, landscape architects are regularly confronted with planning regulations, e.g. in the form of urban land use plans. Therefore, the central learning objective is to provide professional competence in the field of planning law and highlight the interrelationships between planning regulations and landscape architecture.

The module deals with the following topics of building planning law:

- Structure and fundamentals of overall spatial planning

- The instrument of the land use plan

- The instrument of the binding land-use plan, in particular:

- Types of binding land-use plans, preparation procedure

- Requirements for the content of a binding land-use plan

- Possibilities for regulations in accordance with the German Building Code (BauGB)

- Design specifications in accordance with the building regulations of the federal states

- Drawings in accordance with the Planzeichenverordnung (Ordinance on Zoning Drawings)

- Justification and consideration of the plan contents

- Importance of federal state and regional planning for municipal planning

- Admissibility of building projects (§ 29-35 BauGB)

- Building regulations and neighbouring rights

- Interfaces with sectoral planning law (including landscape planning, nature conservation and species protection, planning approval)

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Written examination or
• Homework / Assignment or
• Oral presentation, with written elaboration or
• oral exam

• Homework / Assignment

The standard form of examination is the written examination, 2 hours (alternative form of examination may be chosen by the examiner and then announced at the beginning of the course)

+ ungraded: homework

written exam, 2 hours

Contents of the module Urban Planning.

Students have a broad and integrated knowledge of the central legal requirements and regulatory options of planning law.

Students have an in-depth knowledge of urban land use planning and its linkages to formal landscape planning.

Students know basic legal terms and can use them to interpret legal texts and current court decisions.

Students can independently work through legal regulations and identify their significance for their own planning practice.

The students can analyse planning regulations for specific planning situations.

Students will be able to develop regulations for new planning challenges in development plans and to critically assess the existing planning law instruments.

Students can communicate planning law requirements and regulations in the form of a presentation to political decision-makers and developers.

Students can understand and reflect on their planning activities in the context of the existing legal regulations.

The module deepens the partial contents of the urban planning module.

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