An analysis of the city and territorial planning doctrine as established by the Sentence of the Constitutional Court as to land legislation

Abstract

The paper pretends a detailed and objective analysis of the law as to City and Territorial Planning as it now stands consequent to decision 61/1997 of 20 March, 1997 handed down by D. Enrique Ruiz Vadillo and D. Pablo Garcia Manzano sitting on the Constitutional Court Bench and officially gazetted in a supplement to N.° 99, BOE, 25 April 1997. The sentence is here understood to have finally resolved the various and accumulated pleas laid against supposed anti-constitutional proceedings made by various Autonomous Regional Governments (Aragon,Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile and Leon,Catalonia and Navarra) such as those against the Government' s redrafting of the Land Ownership and Cities Administration Law, LS9 2 (plea: Aragon, Catalonia, Balearic Islands). The paper has previously been read before the Instituto Pascual Madoz's one-day seminar on «City and Territorial Planning in the wake of the Constitutional Court 's Decision)), 16 April, 1997 at the Carlos III University, Madrid and is to feature as the preface toa legislative digest to seen be published.