National Spatial Development Concept 2030 (NSDC 2030).

This National Spatial Development Concept 2030 (NSDC 2030) is the most important national strategic document that addresses the spatial planning management of Poland. The strategic (unlimited in time) goal of the national spatial development policy is: to effectively use the country space and its territorially diversified development potentials to achieve overall development objectives – competitiveness, increased employment, efficiency of the state and long-term social, economic and territorial cohesion. To ensure that the strategic goal of the National Spatial Development Policy is achieved, six interrelated objectives of the national spatial development policy by 2030 have been formulated.
NSDC 2030 seeks to make agriculture more productive and sustainable. Objective 2 is to enhance internal cohesion and balance the territorial development of the country across regions by promoting functional integration, creating conditions for spreading development factors, multifunctional development of rural areas and using the internal potentials of all territories. Territorial cohesion is intended to enable the entire population to participate in the development processes by ensuring access to high-quality jobs and public services that are a precondition for development opportunities. Spatial policy measures intended to achieve the territorial cohesion objective include: supporting nationwide cohesion, regional functional integration, supporting development diffusion to areas outside major cities and building territorial specialisation potential, as well as supporting cohesion in problem areas. Important measures intended to ensure development of Eastern Poland, Central Pomerania and Western Poland include measures aiming to increase the concentration of urbanisation processes and strengthen the role of medium-sized and small cities located in those areas, and to support the restructuring of rural areas. Objective 4 is to develop spatial structures supporting the achievement and preservation of Poland’s high-quality natural environment and landscape. In order to meet development needs, the access to water of appropriate quality must be ensured. Necessary measures will include i.a. integrated planning of municipal services management in functional areas. Water abstraction and waste water discharge will be balanced within units in a catchment. The rules for management of other resources, including soils and strategic minerals, will be specified to enable efficient and early resolution of the conflict of interest concerning the land development and to manage other natural resources in the same geographical space. A set of such measures, provided for in the system of integrated development planning, will allow to prevent irreversible loss of spatial resources, biological and landscape diversity and to enhance the development of natural resources.
NSDC 2030 seeks to increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters. Objective 5 of the NSDC 2030 is to enhance spatial structure’s resistance to natural disasters and loss of energy security and to develop spatial structures supporting national defence capabilities. The main include: improving protection against extreme natural and man-made disasters; counteracting energy security threats and appropriate response to such threats; etc.