Regulations on urban residential land

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Article 196 of the 2024 Land Law (effective from August 2024) stipulates urban residential land as follows:

1. Urban land is land for housing and other purposes serving life in the same plot of land in an urban area.

2. Based on the land fund and actual situation of the locality, the Provincial People's Committee stipulates the limit of residential land allocation to individuals in urban areas.

3. Urban residential land must be arranged synchronously with land used for the purpose of building public works, public works, ensuring environmental sanitation and urban landscape.

4. The conversion of residential land to land for construction of production and business establishments must comply with the planning, land use plan, construction planning approved by competent authorities, comply with the provisions of law on order, safety, law on environmental protection and other relevant provisions of law.

Thus, urban residential land is regulated as above.