Our regional land use plans set out the principles of land use and the community structure in Helsinki-Uusimaa. They define the use of areas needed for specific purposes, along with the principles of urban structure.
These plans are long-term plans and guidelines for our member municipalities when they are drawing up and amending local master plans, as well as local detailed plans. We make our land use plan concrete by a map with a land use classification indicating a desirable future, also including a written statement.
Every regional land use plan is drafted by a regional council and approved by its assembly. The land use planning in Finland is defined in the Land Use and Building Act.
Learn more about the Regional Land Use Plan:
Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Land Use Plan 2050
The Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Land Use Plan 2050 covers almost the entire region. It has a time span until the year of 2050.
Our Regional Land Use Plan has the following four main targets:
- Steering sustainable growth and a regional balance
- Facing climate change and the sustainable use of nature and natural resources
- Increasing welfare and attractiveness
- Enabling sustainable competitiveness
The Plan has two different levels; firstly, a strategic structural plan for the entire Helsinki-Uusimaa, which is then completed by three phased regional land use plans. We have made these phased plans for the Helsinki Metropolitan Region, the Eastern and Western Uusimaa.
Our structure plan deals with the greater lines of the regional structures, which are the network of centres, the structures of densely populated areas, traffic connections and the most important green structural entities. This plan also includes an order in which development directions are to be focused upon. All regional land use plans deal with such issues that each region wants to especially focus upon.
Learn more about Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Land Use Plan 2050:
New Regional Plan focuses on themes relating to green transition
The Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council started the process of a thematic green transition land use plan in May 2024. The new plan completes the legally valid Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Land Use Plan with themes including energy, technical service, business, logistics, as well as environment and climate.
Green transition projects often require space and coordination with other forms of land use. Aim is to support the land use planning in municipalities and consequently make the implementation of green transition projects in Helsinki-Uusimaa smoother.
Preliminary themes to be handled in plan
- Energy: solar energy, transfer networks and new energy solutions as small nuclear power reactors and hydrogen.
- Technical services: water supply and resources.
- Business: Industry and production, circular economy and soil management.
- Mobility: logistics and long-distance passenger transportation.
- Natural and environmental resources and attraction: protected areas, ecological networks and forests/carbon sequestration.
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation will be acknowledged, among others, in the impact assessment.
- Additionally, the security of supply and safety is a cross-cutting principle in the land use planning work.
Other Regional Land Use Plans in force in Helsinki-Uusimaa
- Regional Land Use Plan for the Östersundom area
- Phased Regional Land Use Plan 4 – only markings for wind power.
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Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Programme
The Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Programme sets out our region’s vision for 2030 and outlines the development priorities, objectives and measures for 2022–2025. The vision is “Well Ahead”, and the Programme includes the key development guidelines and strategies from the global level to the municipal level.
For more information, please contact:
Ilona Mansikka
Manager, Regional Planning
ilona.mansikka@uudenmaanliitto.fi
Development of regional land use planning, Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Land Use Plan 2050. Areas of responsibility in regional land use planning: Espoo, Helsinki, Kaunainen, Vantaa. Deputy for Director of Regional Planning Mari Siivola
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3.12.2024
New Regional Plan focuses on themes relating to green transition
The Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council started the process of a thematic green transition land use plan in May 2024. The new plan completes the legally valid Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Land Use Plan with themes including energy, technical service, business, logistics, as well as environment and climate.
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25.11.2024
Mari Siivola leading regional land use planning in Helsinki-Uusimaa: “A growing region with all preconditions for success”
Mari Siivola, who recently started as the Director of Regional Planning at the Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council has been working a long time with municipal land use planning. She feels anything is possible for the growing and versatile region. She thinks Helsinki-Uusimaa has all the possibilities it needs to succeed.
This page was last updated: 3.12.2024