State Guidance Plan

The National Indicative Plan is the central planning instrument binding on the authorities that identifies and coordinates all significant spatially effective activities. Among other things, this forms the central instrument for the control of sustainable spatial development and serves in material and formal terms of coordination.

His planning methodology and design have been further developed since the preparation of the expert opinion on spatial planning development, which the government had prepared in 1966 by the Institute for Local, Regional and National Planning of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Due to the changing understanding of planning, guideline planning changed from a rather static and project-oriented planning to a conceptual planning. This focuses on current goals and is based on new approaches to solutions.

The National Structure Plan is a concept plan consisting of a structure plan text and a structure plan map. With the National Structure Plan, an instrument has been developed that presents the various activities and projects in the different subject areas of settlement, agriculture, nature and landscape, transport and supply and disposal in an overall view, makes the conflicts of use visible and, in appreciation of the overall view for the desired spatial development of the country, formulates goals and guiding principles and, with a view to implementation, in object sheets, instructions for action.

At the strategic level (goals and guiding principles), the State Indicative Plan establishes the long-term direction of the state's spatial development policy. This has a lasting effect. It is to be reviewed and, if necessary, adjusted as part of an overall revision as needed.

The government last approved the currently valid State Indicative Plan in 2011. In June 2021, the government approved the overall revision of the National Indicative Plan and assigned the current Office of Building and Spatial Planning to manage the project.