Planning Law
- Faculty
 Faculty of Agricultural Science and Landscape Architecture
- Version
 Version 1 of 13.08.2025.
- Module identifier
 44B0040
- Module level
 Bachelor
- Language of instruction
 German
- ECTS credit points and grading
 5.0
- Module frequency
 only winter term
- Duration
 1 semester
- Brief description
 In planning practice, landscape architects are regularly confronted with planning regulations, e.g. in the form of urban land use plans. Therefore, the central learning objective is to provide professional competence in the field of planning law and highlight the interrelationships between planning regulations and landscape architecture.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
 The module deals with the following topics of building planning law:
- Structure and fundamentals of overall spatial planning
- The instrument of the land use plan
- The instrument of the binding land-use plan, in particular:
- Types of binding land-use plans, preparation procedure
- Requirements for the content of a binding land-use plan
- Possibilities for regulations in accordance with the German Building Code (BauGB)
- Design specifications in accordance with the building regulations of the federal states
- Drawings in accordance with the Planzeichenverordnung (Ordinance on Zoning Drawings)
- Justification and consideration of the plan contents
- Importance of federal state and regional planning for municipal planning
- Admissibility of building projects (§ 29-35 BauGB)
- Building regulations and neighbouring rights
- Interfaces with sectoral planning law (including landscape planning, nature conservation and species protection, planning approval)
- Overall workload
 The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
 Lecturer based learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 30 Seminar - 30 Lecture - Lecturer independent learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 30 Work in small groups - 30 Exam preparation - 30 Preparation/follow-up for course work - 
- Graded examination
 - Written examination or
 - Homework / Assignment or
 - Oral presentation, with written elaboration or
 - oral exam
 
- Ungraded exam
 - Homework / Assignment
 
- Remark on the assessment methods
 The standard form of examination is the written examination, 2 hours (alternative form of examination may be chosen by the examiner and then announced at the beginning of the course)
+ ungraded: homework
- Exam duration and scope
 written exam, 2 hours
- Recommended prior knowledge
 Contents of the module Urban Planning.
- Knowledge Broadening
 Students have a broad and integrated knowledge of the central legal requirements and regulatory options of planning law.
- Knowledge deepening
 Students have an in-depth knowledge of urban land use planning and its linkages to formal landscape planning.
- Knowledge Understanding
 Students know basic legal terms and can use them to interpret legal texts and current court decisions.
- Application and Transfer
 Students can independently work through legal regulations and identify their significance for their own planning practice.
The students can analyse planning regulations for specific planning situations.
- Academic Innovation
 Students will be able to develop regulations for new planning challenges in development plans and to critically assess the existing planning law instruments.
- Communication and Cooperation
 Students can communicate planning law requirements and regulations in the form of a presentation to political decision-makers and developers.
- Academic Self-Conception / Professionalism
 Students can understand and reflect on their planning activities in the context of the existing legal regulations.
- Literature
 Schmidt-Eichstaedt, Weyrauch, Zemke (2019): St?dtebaurecht. 6. Auflage. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag
Bischopink et al. (2021): Der sachgerechte Bebauungsplan: Handreichungen für die kommunale Planung. 5. Auflage. Bonn: vhw - Verlag
Ministerium für Infrastruktur und Raumordnung des Landes Brandenburg (2022): Arbeitshilfe Bebauungsplanung. Potsdam
- Applicability in study programs
 - Landscape Engineering
 - Landscape Engineering B.Eng. (01.09.2025)
 
- Landscape Engineering Dual
 - Landscape Engineering Dual B.Eng. (01.09.2025)
 
- Open Space Planning
 - Open Space Planning B.Eng. (01.09.2025)
 
- Person responsible for the module
 - Schoppengerd, Johanna
 
- Teachers
 - Schoppengerd, Johanna