Registration of the territory planning and survey projects when placing linear facilities: current problems and prospects of legislative regulation

Abstract

The rapid growth of freight and passenger traffic in rail transport creates an urgent need to expand and modernize the rail infrastructure. However, the legal regulation of linear facilities, which includes the railroad track, is one of the most complicated in the contemporary land, forestry and urban planning legislation of the Russian Federation. Hence, the given paper is focused on scrutinizing of the most pivotal issues of development, coordination and approval of planning and land surveying projects when placing linear facilities. After the thorough analysis of literature and a wide array of regulatory legal acts, the authors provided their own legal definition of the term «linear facilities». Besides, the paper examines the most difficult cases concerning the division, allocation of a share, combination, and redistribution of land plots during the period of project approval. Furthermore, the findings of the study make it possible to present a number of recommendations for their subsequent legislative consolidation in relation to land-surveying projects that do not contain information about the owners or landowners who have not registered their rights in the Unified State Register of Real Estate.