IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/eurpls/v33y2025i3p443-460.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Infrastructure levy in Poland – forgotten achievements of the interwar period

Author

Listed:
  • Wojciech Korbel

Abstract

Legal regulations in Poland allow local governments to impose infrastructure levies on private property owners to support the construction of public roads or utilities. The amount of the fee is estimated as part of the increase in property value caused by the public investment. The increase in value is difficult to estimate and is unrelated to the cost of infrastructure implementation. The regulations are therefore widely criticized. In the search for an alternative, the author draws attention to the solutions operating in Poland in the years 1928–1939. Of particular importance is a 1937 publication found in the research query, intended to support local governments in the application of the law at the time. The methods proposed in the publication for allocating the cost of building streets and squares, authored by the Urban Planning Commission of the Polish Cities Association, underpinned the study. The author verifies these proposals and relates them to contemporary regulations. The study proves the great care taken by the interwar solutions for a fair and simple participation mechanism. It also indicates possible directions for changes in the form and methods of determining infrastructure fees that can be made in modern Polish realities.

Suggested Citation

  • Wojciech Korbel, 2025. "Infrastructure levy in Poland – forgotten achievements of the interwar period," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(3), pages 443-460, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:33:y:2025:i:3:p:443-460
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2025.2464246
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09654313.2025.2464246
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09654313.2025.2464246?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:33:y:2025:i:3:p:443-460. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CEPS20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.