PLANNING LAW AND ITS IMPORTANCE

Some Acts, Ordinances, Rules and Regulations called public regulations guide physical development of urban and rural areas. They serves as safeguard for development. The regulations disperses within different Acts and Ordinances or within purposively framed laws. In Bangladesh, many laws are involved with physical development. Some of those not exclusively identifies as planning laws. Different types of statutes and enactments notifies to serve the needs of different issues. Different public authorities perform responsibilities as the enforcement authorities of those rules and regulations.

Planning law considers as major tool for the urban and rural planning, implementation and control of development activities. Specific and individual statute or enactment preserves the role on such planning, implementation and control. All planning and development aspect guides through the prescribed regulatory arrangements and this guidance ensures effectiveness of the plans. Planning aspects prepared by the prescribed authority as the functions notified in the statute. Planning tasks involved with private sector or individual landowners also needs approval from the specific public authority according to the regulations prescribed through an enactment or statute. Again, development activities closely depends on the planning tasks. Planning work is the pre-requisite of a development work. The law framed on the process and procedure of planning tasks and on the need of their enforcement authorities rather than the development activities.

AIM OF THE STUDY

The study emphasizes to find out the problems of execution of the planning laws related with the physical development activities to generate healthy living environment in urban premises. It observes that, a large number of statutes deal with similar issues such as construction of settlement; about 11 statutes are involved with such development and 19 statutes on city development activities. Those statutes not practices by the public authorities, only practiced by the Judges for the necessity of court cases. These create development problems and unhealthy living environment.

Except these, Government and public authorities not maintain any regulatory provisions to establish physical components in the country. As a result, haphazard development prevails in all urban areas of the country. The laws deal with similar issues indirectly lead the problems of planned development within a time frame. Too many regulations involve with the same issues. This is not necessary for the growing needs of the physical development of the country. The study tries to identify the objectives behind the formation of the study laws, and whether exists consistency between the contemporary laws practices for the physical development of the urban areas.