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The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning has decided on new regulations for plan descriptions for detailed plans. The rules apply to both the content of the plan description and how the information is to be handled digitally. The rules enter into force on 1 January 2021. Boverket - the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning's regulations on plan description (new window) shall be applied when adopting new detailed plans and when amending existing plans, if the planning work begins after 31 December 2021. Purpose of the regulation is that the information in plan descriptions must be uniform and have a digital functionality that enables the information to be made available and processed digitally at a national level.
The content of a plan description is regulated in ch. plan and the Building Act and the regulations clarify what is to be reported. For example, what the purpose should contain is regulated, how planning documents are to be handled and which implementation issues need to be reported.
The new rules affect everyone who produces detailed plans and who has a role in the detailed planning process. This means, among other things, that all municipalities, county administrative boards, other authorities, courts and system suppliers that develop software for producing and managing detailed plans are affected. The rules came into force on 1 January 2021. The municipalities may apply the rules directly, but do not have to do so. The rules apply in full to plan descriptions that belong to detailed plans that begin after 31 December 2021.