Regional planning

Regional planning is the supra-local, interdisciplinary and summary regional planning in the territory of a region, in which the state, associations of municipalities and municipalities work together in accordance with the Spatial Planning Act and the State Planning Act.

The main focus of regional planning is the development of regional spatial plans. It specifies and supplements the objectives and principles of state planning, as they result from the state development programme, at the regional level.

Regional planning is carried out by the districts and independent cities within a region; they form a planning community. Under planning law, Rhineland-Palatinate is divided into the four regions

• Middle Rhine-Westerwald,
• Trier
• Rheinhessen-Nahe and
• West Palatinate

scaled. Regional planning for the area of the former Rhine-Palatinate region, i.e. the independent cities of Frankenthal (Palatinate), Landau in der Pfalz, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Speyer and Worms as well as the districts of Bad Dürkheim, Germersheim, Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis and Südliche Weinstraße, is the responsibility of the Rhine-Neckar Region Association in accordance with a state treaty concluded between the states of Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate.