Concrete progress

An amendment to the special residential act, colloquially known as the ‘Lex Developer bill’, has found its way to the Polish government’s legislative body. [Ed: this conversation took place at the beginning of September]. The Polish Association of Developers [PZFD] has been intensively lobbying for these changes. Why are they so important? Patryk Kozierkiewicz, a legal trainee and expert at the PZFD: These reforms are set to open up new opportunities for developers and unblock many investment sites, while local authorities would not lose control over how this land is used. Such projects will still need local government approval. At the moment, on the basis of current legislation, you can develop a project that does not fit the spatial plan but that nevertheless has to be in line with the site conditions. There are a number of exceptions to this, such as sites formally used for production and railway land; but what the amendment will do is to increase their scope to i