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Socioeconomic development involves expansion of urban areas, which has its consequence in changes in the condition of the environment. Mismanagement of the process results in disturbing the environmental balance. Examples of this effect include intensive, frequently wasteful exploitation of non-renewable natural resources and overly rapid consumption or improper management of renewable resources. Chaotically located investments result in pollution of the soil as well as surface and underground waters. The aim of this paper is to value the natural features of an area before the local land use plan is approved and the same area in the condition described by the plan. A comparison of the value before and after the plan is drawn up shows whether the intended project has met the conditions of natural compensation. They are met when the land use is planned in such a way so as to allow it to retain its value after the area has been transformed. The method used for the analysis is called 1st generation analysis of landscape value. It involves adding up the products of multiplication of partial areas with specific land use and the corresponding score point indexes. The index values lie between 0 and 1. The analysis was started with the stocktaking of the land features and the analysis of cartographic materials, as well as the provisions of the local plan approved in 2004. The state of land development as of 1995 and the specified target state, as per the plan, provided grounds for determination of the intensity of the environmental change resulting from the land development policy implemented in the area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Socioeconomic development involves expansion of urban areas, which has its consequence in changes in the condition of the environment. Mismanagement of the process results in disturbing the environmental balance. Examples of this effect include intensive, frequently wasteful exploitation of non-renewable natural resources and overly rapid consumption or improper management of renewable resources. Chaotically located investments result in pollution of the soil as well as surface and underground waters. The aim of this paper is to value the natural features of an area before the local land use plan is approved and the same area in the condition described by the plan. A comparison of the value before and after the plan is drawn up shows whether the intended project has met the conditions of natural compensation. They are met when the land use is planned in such a way so as to allow it to retain its value after the area has been transformed. The method used for the analysis is called 1st generation analysis of landscape value. It involves adding up the products of multiplication of partial areas with specific land use and the corresponding score point indexes. The index values lie between 0 and 1. The analysis was started with the stocktaking of the land features and the analysis of cartographic materials, as well as the provisions of the local plan approved in 2004. The state of land development as of 1995 and the specified target state, as per the plan, provided grounds for determination of the intensity of the environmental change resulting from the land development policy implemented in the area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]