La pianificazione come principio fondamentale [Urban planning as a fundamental principle]

Keeping in the background the previous constitutional case law on regional housing plans, the contribution focuses on sentence 17/2023, in which the Constitutional Court declared illegitimate regional law 38/2021, extending the Puglia Region housing plan for the eighth consecutive time, for violation of the fundamental principle of municipal urban planning. The annotation of the judgement is, therefore, the occasion to formulate some further reflections on the relations between regional urban planning legislation and local autonomy as well as on the relations between urban planning and building at the time of urban regeneration and the so-called town development plans «without expansion».