Physical planning provides the conditions for use, protection and management of the space of the Republic of Croatia as a particularly valuable and limited national asset, and also creates the prerequisites for social and economic development, environment and nature protection, building excellence and rational use of natural and cultural goods.
The Physical Planning Act (Official Gazette 153/13) regulates the physical planning system: aims, principles and subjects of physical planning, spatial monitoring and monitoring in the field of physical planning, spatial planning requirements, adoption of the Spatial Development Strategy of the Republic of Croatia, spatial plans including their development and adoption procedure, implementation of spatial plans, building land development, property postulates of building land, development and supervision.
Spatial planning shall be a permanent process which includes knowing, verifying, and assessing the possibilities for the use, protection and development of space, development and adoption of spatial plans and monitoring implementation of spatial plans and the situation in space.
