Miejscowy Plan Rewitalizacji „Jabłkowskiego– Podgórze” w Kaliszu – nadzieja zmian w kreacji polityki przestrzennej w Polsce
Local Revitalization Plan of “Jabłkowski–Podgórze” in Kalisz – hope for changes in the creation of spatial policy in Poland

Summary/Abstract: At the end of 2021 the Kalisz City Council adopted the “Jabłkowskiego–Podgórze” Local Revitalization Plan (LRP). For the first time in Poland, a new instrument of local spatial policy was created, based on the completely new Revitalization Act adopted by the Polish Parliament in 2015.The plan has thus become a form of pioneering action, a fully implemented new planning process, helpful in the preparation of other similar actions.It has also become an important supplement to the discussion concerning the role of local spatial policy and its impact on the quality of the revitalized space.Among the particularly interesting issues related to the establishment of LRP “Jabłkowskiego–Podgórze”, the following should be mentioned:• reasons for creating and adopting the plan in question,• the scope of locally accepted analytical and planning works in view of the legal conditions that shape them,• the obtained results and their impact on a scope of potentially applied, advanced but optional, urban planning tools by other communal governments.The plan adopted in Kalisz is therefore extremely interesting in the context of the relationship between the statutory tools for creating spatial policy in Poland and the real demand for these tools as well as their actual use in the area of planned revitalization. These issues are reflected in the presented research results, including a simulation showing the possible impact of the provisions of the “Jabłkowskiego–Podgórze” plan on the quality of the shaped space.The results also show the great potential of new legal tools that require a large amount of time, commitment, and funding from local authorities at the same time. Against this background, the article deals with the problem of the current marginalization of the significance of the Local Revitalization Plan in the spatial policy of Polish municipalities and the farreaching need for changes in shaping this policy.

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