DEVELOPMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL REGULATION OF URBAN PLANNING ACTIVITY IN THE CONDITIONS OF ECONOMIC CRISIS AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION DESIRE

Abstract

The irreversibility of the European course of Ukraine, enshrined in the fifth paragraph of the preamble of the Constitution of Ukraine, determines the direction and methods of implementation in all spheres of society and the state, everyone’s awareness of the leading role of guarantees of rights, freedoms, legitimate interests of each person, acquisition of power ex officio. The current legislation, endowing a person with power, not only provides the scope of rights, respectively, the functions performed, but also imposes additional responsibilities, the proper implementation of which is one of the guarantees of the legitimacy of state power. This fully applies to the implementation of permitting activities in the field of urban planning, which aims to create conditions for the formation and maintenance of a full living environment, including ensuring the preservation of cultural heritage and infrastructure necessary for the existence of the living environment. Methodology. The use of cognitive general scientific and special methods allowed to achieve the goal of this publication. Thus, the study of the historical development of administrative and legal regulation of urban planning allowed to determine the close relationship between the areas, in which such construction was carried out, and the development of legal norms for it (both administrative and legal, and technical). Comparative legal method, analysis, synthesis allowed to identify prospects for administrative and legal regulation of urban planning. The practical importance. Improving the administrative and legal regulation of urban planning activities takes into account not only specific law enforcement problems, but also general social (including economic, social, etc.) processes; systematization of construction legislation and its proper application. A feature of the current stage of development of administrative and legal regulation in this area is the focus on the best foreign experience, which gives initial importance to human rights and freedoms as factors of legal regulation in this area.