Regionaler Raumordnungsplan (ROP) IV Westpfalz
Regionaler Raumordnungsplan (ROP) IV Westpfalz
The Western Palatinate ROP sets out the regulatory and organisational framework of the regional development programme for the Western Palatinate planning region; it defines the role of spatial planning as the development, regulation and protection of the region's spaces and lays down the new emphases of the spatial planning action strategy due to changed societal framework conditions.
In the spatial planning field this involves the strengthening of the higher level central spaces as healthcare centres and interconnection points for public transport services, the reinforcement of basic centres to secure primary care provision to the population in neighbouring districts and to stabilise the comprehensive coverage of the population with public service facilities and equal opportunities for access. The basic principles on which the ROP is built are sustainability, equality and gender equality. The spatial planning instruments identified are central places (concentration of development potential and reinforcement of exchanges of services between different levels of central places and their spheres of influence), function identification, threshold values, functional networks, priority areas, regional green corridors, settlement breaks. In addition there are also statements on mobility and the environment (especially the protection of open spaces and climate protection).
Table of contents:
I. Guidelines on spatial planning and regional development
I.1 Preliminary remarks
I.2 Role of spatial planning
I.3 Framework conditions
I.4 Guidelines on: Growth and Innovation
I.5 Designing the ROP
I.6 Implementing the ROP
II. Spatial planning goals and principles for settlements, open spaces and infrastructure
II.1 Settlement structure
II.2 Open space structure
II.3 Infrastructure
II.4 Spatial relevance of financial flows
III Strategic environmental assessments (SEA)
The central control element for the securing of public services is and remains the Central Place Concept (CPC). The Central Place Concept can do its job not only in a growing, but also in a shrinking society. However, to do so it must be adapted to the conditions of a symmetrically (in the spatial sense) growing and shrinking society. What matters is the development and implementation of situation-specific, innovative solutions and not hanging on to traditional demand standards. With that a redefinition of the equality postulate takes place: Equality not as optimisation imposed from above, but in the sense of fair access with minimum standards at the lowest level. Precisely in a society characterised by demographic change, it can no longer be about comprehensive equality, but rather about equal opportunity of access to sites with a public service offering.
Dr.-Ing. Hans-Günther Clev
Planungsgemeinschaft Westpfalz