The Draft Law consists of 6 chapters and 65 articles.

Presenting the Report, Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi said that the Party and State always pay attention to and provide leadership for urban planning, construction planning, and rural planning, identifying this as a very important task in national development and national defense.

After 14 years of implementing the Law on Urban Planning and 9 years of implementing the Law on Construction, along with new requirements of development practice, limitations and inadequacies have been revealed, requiring research, amendment, supplementation and improvement. Therefore, the drafting of the Law on Urban Planning and Rural Planning is necessary.

The Draft Law consists of 6 chapters and 65 articles, closely following and clearly demonstrating 3 groups of policies that have been approved, including: perfecting regulations on the urban and rural planning system; perfecting regulations on the establishment, appraisal, approval, review, and adjustment of urban and rural planning; perfecting regulations on the selection of planning consulting organizations, funding sources, and other relevant regulations to improve the quality and feasibility of urban and rural planning; the right to access and provide information on urban and rural planning.

Inheriting the scope of regulation of the 2009 Law on Urban Planning and the 2014 Law on Construction (Chapter II), on the basis of the scope of urban and rural planning stipulated in the 2017 Law on Planning, the scope of regulation of the proposed Law is: "This Law regulates the urban and rural planning system; establishment, appraisal, approval, review, adjustment, organization of management of urban and rural planning and state management of urban and rural planning".

Ensuring close connection between urban and rural planning

In his report on the review of the Draft Law, Chairman of the National Assembly's Economic Committee Vu Hong Thanh said that the Economic Committee basically agreed with the necessity of promulgating the Law. However, the Economic Committee suggested that it is necessary to clarify the relationship between types of planning in the urban and rural planning system, the relationship with planning in the national planning system and specialized technical planning, principles, bases for establishing and adjusting planning.

At the same time, it is necessary to decentralize and delegate authority in the establishment, appraisal, approval, adjustment and management of urban and rural planning to enhance the role, initiative and responsibility of local authorities in accordance with their capacity and resources for implementation; reduce administrative procedures in the establishment, appraisal, approval and adjustment of urban and rural planning, meeting the requirements of improving the investment and business environment.

According to Chairman of the Economic Committee Vu Hong Thanh, many opinions agreed with the scope of adjustment (Article 1) of the draft Law; at the same time, it was suggested to continue researching and reviewing the content of basic concepts such as "urban" and "rural", ensuring the orientation of linking urban and rural areas and being consistent with the reality of urban-rural interweaving.

Along with that, review and clearly define the scope and objects, ensuring close connection between urban planning and rural planning; continue to review, complete and clarify the scope, objects of planning, and contents of rural planning...

In addition, the review agency also proposed to focus on clarifying a number of issues regarding the urban and rural planning system (Article 3); cases related to the scope of boundaries and administrative boundaries when making urban and rural planning (Article 5); principles in urban and rural planning activities (Article 7); general planning of centrally-run cities (Article 20)...