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| At the 32 session of the NA Standing Commitee__Photo: An Dang/VNA |
The draft Law on Urban and Rural Planning tops the agenda of the 32nd session of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on April 22.
At the session, Construction Minister Nguyen Thanh Nghi said that the draft law aims to create a legal foundation and a synchronous, comprehensive, unified management tool to adjust urban and rural planning activities, fix related problems in reality, enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of state management.
The bill includes adjustments and amendments to a number of existing legal regulations that are no longer suitable to reality, he said.
In his verification report, Chairman of the NA's Committee for Economic Affairs Vu Hong Thanh said that the committee agreed on the necessity to promulgate the law, underlining that the consolidation of regulations on urban and rural planning into one law is appropriate, aiming to ensure uniformity in general direction in urban and rural control, management and development.
Thanh reminded the drafting agency to add the assessments of specific impacts of new regulations of the bill, along with the summary on regulations related to decentralization on local planning adjustments.
He emphasized the necessity for the bill to have suitable and strategic visions in urban planning with respect to market rules and principles of sustainable development, taking people and quality of life as the center and urban culture and civilization as the foundation for development.
Addressing the session, NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said that the draft Law on Urban and Rural Planning was built on the basis of inheriting, developing and unifying the urban planning regulations in the 2009 Urban Planning Law and regulations on construction planning and rural planning in the 2014 Construction Law.
He said that the bill should review and clarify the issue of climate change adaptation planning, criteria and standards for urban planning associated with population density and infrastructure, as well as planning adjustments to suit reality.
The NA leader also asked for coherence among the bill and other related laws.-(VLLF)
