The analysis of planning possibilities of rural management works as examplified by the Kozłów commune

Rural management works are carried out for the purpose of creating more favourable conditions for management and use of agriculture areas. The activities are fundamental to comprehensive development of a village, farm and the protection and maintenance of natural environment. The principal goal of these works is the improvement and development of the structure of rural areas. The paper indicates priority areas for planning of rural management works and especially for land consolidation works. The research was based on The programme of rural management works in the Kozłów commune [Program prac urządzeniowo-rolnych... 2011] and on geodesic and planning materials. Combination of various kinds of data obtained at District and Voivodeship offices of geodesy and cartography and their appropriate analysis have proved effective in identification of areas in the Kozłów commune most urgently requiring the improvement of the use and ownership structure of lands and in defining the areas where the current land use structure should be transformed. The condition of reasonable planning of rural management works, leading to an indication of priority areas for this kind of activities are - on the level of voivodeships - the consistent and synchronized spatial databases founded on the land and property register. The analysis of geographic, natural, environmental, socio-economic, demographic conditions and of cartographic documents with the use of GIS tools led to the identification of three precincts: Przybysławice, Bryzdzyn and Wierzbica, urgently requiring rural management works.