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Dr Justyna Goździewicz-Biechońska
ORCID: 0000-0001-5046-037X

Doctor of law and architect, assistant professor at the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Protection Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. Her expertise covers environmental law, nature law and climate law (including renewable energy sources), and spatial planning law and the legal aspects of land use planning and construction process. She authored over 40 scientific publications in international and national journals and the monograph Unlawfulness of administrative decisions in the land use planning and construction process. She actively participates in international and national conferences. She is a member of international and national scientific and expert organizations, including the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights, PLPR; The European Environmental Law Forum, EELF, the Legal and Urban Planning Team at the National Spatial Development Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Association of Agrarian Lawyers.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2026.5.3
JEL: K39, K49, K25

The aim of this article is to define the scope of tasks and the mutual relations among the main entities involved in the process of drafting and adopting an integrated development plan (IDP), namely the investor and municipal authorities (the municipal council and executive body of the municipal council). The study puts forward a research hypothesis that the relationship among these participants is based on balancing their legal positions, reflecting the objectives and concept of the IDP as a specific spatial planning instrument. Based on the analyses, this hypothesis has been successfully verified. This leads to the conclusion that the legal relationship among the key participants in the IDP’s drafting and adoption process aligns with its concept and objectives. Its purpose is to enable the implementation of private projects in a procedure initiated by the investor while maintaining the municipality’s planning authority, in particular through its competence to adopt this specific local plan.

Keywords: integrated investment plan; investor; urban planning agreement; act on spatial planning and development