City Planning Department
The City Planning Department is responsible for physical planning in the City of Stockholm. The Department works with comprehensive planning and detailed development plans, building permits, surveying, property formation and home adaptation.
In more concrete terms, this means that the City Planning Department
- is responsible for the City of Stockholm’s comprehensive plan, which describes how Stockholm's spatial environment is to be developed in the long term
- is responsible for detailed development planning that determines the location and design of areas, buildings, parks, green areas, infrastructure, etc.
- works with strategic planning for social sustainability, water, climate adaptation and issues relating to noise and risk
- examines and makes decisions on issues relating to building permits, and is responsible for the supervision of issues including unauthorised building
- produces different kinds of maps of the City, digital city models and 3D visualisations, and handles issues relating to property formation
- investigates needs and makes decisions on grants for home adaptations for people with permanent disabilities.
The elected representatives on the City Planning Committee make decisions on how the City should work with this operational area. The City Planning Department must then execute the committee’s decisions.
Organisation
The City Planning Department’s operations are led by Director of City Planning Amanda Horwitz. The City Planning Office consists of four divisions, as well as administrative management and staff.