Why investors don’t want to use an integrated investment plan

One of the new tools for managing spatial policy in the municipality, introduced under last year’s amendment to the Spatial Planning and Development Act (UPZP), is the Integrated Investment Plan (ZPI). A ZPI is a special form of local plan that regulates the intended use of the properties it covers. It is approved only upon the request of the investor, who covers all costs related to its preparation.

So far, only a few municipalities have registered individual applications. A smaller number of municipalities have taken decisions to join the Integrated Investment Plan. County flyers are empty. It seems that by mid-September, only one integrated investment plan had been approved – in the municipality of Gokzalkowice-Zdrój. Why don’t investors want to use this procedure? Will the trend change, and if so, when? Should municipalities then expect a huge influx of requests for an integrated investment plan? More importantly, are municipalities prepared for the new procedure?