Annotation

The study positions urban-planning legal policy as one of the principal instruments for the practical realisation of constitutional socio-economic rights, which serve both as a theoretical-value framework and as a yardstick for assessing the policy’s effectiveness. Particular attention is given to the intersectoral nature of this policy and to its four core functions—goal-setting, regulatory, distributive and protective—carried out through strategic documents, normative acts and judicial practice. The analysis focuses on the rights to housing, a favourable environment, health protection, education and social security, as well as on economic rights and freedoms, including the right to private property and guarantees of a single economic space, whose realisation depends directly on the spatial organisation of territory. The paper examines the role of integrated territorial development as an indicator of the State’s capacity to balance public and private interests and to secure the substantive content of the socio-economic rights under consideration.