Turin's new master plan wins unanimous regional backing

Turin's new master plan wins unanimous backing from regional co-planning conference

Turin's new General Regulatory Plan won a unanimous favourable vote from the co-planning conference with the Piedmont Region, the Metropolitan City and the heritage superintendency, the first plan revision under regional law 5/2026, which halved the conference to sixty days.

2 November 2026 by Robert Eduard Antal, facts checked automatically against the source · updated 4 November 2026

Key facts

The co-planning and assessment conference on Turin's new General Regulatory Plan ended with a unanimous favourable vote.

Under the new regional law, the conference's duration was halved from 120 to 60 days.

Key features of the plan include equalisation, transformation areas, public city and reduced building capacity compared with the 1995 plan.

The co-planning and assessment conference on Turin’s new General Regulatory Plan ended on 2 November 2026 with a unanimous favourable vote. All participating bodies backed the proposal, confirming the overall design of the city’s plan. The vote opens the final phase before definitive approval.

What the conference decided

The conference is where the Region, the Metropolitan City and the heritage superintendency examine the plan together with the city. Each body gave its opinion, and the minutes identify the binding requirements that the city will fully incorporate into the Definitive Project. These requirements concern how the plan demonstrates and guarantees its choices and how they are coordinated with regional and metropolitan planning. They will be built into the Definitive Project in the coming weeks.

A faster procedure under Cresci Piemonte

This is the first general revision of a master plan carried out under regional law 5/2026, known as Cresci Piemonte, approved last February. The new rules halved the conference’s duration from one hundred and twenty to sixty days, counted from the convocation on 2 September. The law also created a steering committee of the municipality, the Region and the Metropolitan City, with the superintendency taking part, which met on 18 May and 18 June. The law set a precise boundary on what the bodies may request: compliance, consistency and sustainability.

What the plan contains

The plan’s structure remains that of the Technical Proposal adopted by the city executive on 1 September. Its distinctive elements include equalisation, transformation areas, the public city and a lower building capacity than the 1995 plan. The City Council had adopted the Preliminary Project of the new plan on 16 March 2026. Mayor Stefano Lo Russo said the new plan, coming more than thirty years after the previous one, is meant to govern the transformations of the coming decades.

Next steps

The competent authority will now issue its reasoned opinion on the Strategic Environmental Assessment, based on input from the regional technical body and the Metropolitan City. The city will then prepare the Definitive Project, respond to residents’ observations and submit it to the City Council for final approval. The mayor aims to reach definitive approval before the end of his term.

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