Territorial Planning as a sustainability tool

Abstract

Land-use plans are social pacts between the inhabitants of a territory, which are subsequently reflected in a technical-normative instrument of long-term planning and management that guides the development of the territory and regulates the use, occupation and transformation of the physical, urban and rural space.
In spite of fulfilling a public and complex function, it has not yet been fully and completely implemented in the world, nor in Peru. This is why it requires constant support from legal instruments and the participation of diverse areas of knowledge, in order to balance the needs and specific considerations that will allow it to be better defined and to determine a better use for each space.
Thus, this tool must be approached from the perspective of sustainability, not as an irrational barrier to development or private or public investment, generating restrictions on its use due to the issuing of contradictory legal norms.