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How to read an environmental plan legend
An environmental plan (çevre düzeni planı, ÇDP) is the upper-level plan that shows land use for one or more provinces at a scale of 1/100,000. It decides where agricultural, forest, settlement, industrial, tourism and protected areas will be; lower-level zoning plans must comply with it.
What is the legend?
It is the key to the plan: each colour and hatching shows a land-use decision. Every plan has its own legend; the same colour can mean different things in two different plans. On ParselX, turn on the plan layer and press the legend button; then find the colour under your parcel in the legend.
Main groups of decisions
- Settlement areas: existing urban area, urban development area, rural settlement
- Employment areas: industrial area, organised industrial zone, storage, commerce
- Agricultural and natural areas: agricultural land (absolute, special crop, planted, marginal), forest, pasture, wetland
- Protected areas: natural / archaeological heritage (sit) areas, national parks, drinking water catchment protection zones
- Tourism, energy, infrastructure: tourism centres, energy generation areas, airports, ports, main transport corridors
Plan provisions (plan notes)
Alongside the colours there are plan provisions (plan hükümleri), and they are often decisive: which structures may be built on agricultural land, the prohibitions in protected areas and the rules that apply until a lower-level plan is made are all set out here. You can reach the plan provisions PDF from the ParselX plan page.
Points to watch
- An environmental plan's scale is coarse: its lines can be hundreds of metres out on the ground; decisions at the edge of a parcel become clear only with the lower-level plan.
- An environmental plan does not confer development rights; building requires the municipality's zoning plan and a zoning status certificate.
- Plan changes are announced sheet by sheet; with the ParselX watch list you can be told about changes to the sheet your parcel is on.
This guide is for information only; legislation and practice can change. For definitive information, check with the relevant authority (the land registry office, the municipality or the provincial special administration) or get advice from a lawyer or a licensed adviser.
Last updated: 29 September 2026