UOPG planning unit: can you build on it in Portugal?
Depends on the unit's rules: a planning and management operational unit (unidade operativa de planeamento e gestão, UOPG) is an area the PDM maps for planned development, often delivered through an execution unit.
- Answer
- The PDM's rules for that unit apply to any building.
- Where shown
- On the PDM's zoning map (planta de ordenamento).
- Execution unit
- Can match a UOPG, or an urban or detail plan area, and shares benefits and costs among owners.
- Who decides
- The municipality.
- Council rules
- The municipal plan (PDM) sets the detail for your plot; ask the council for a planning certificate (certidão) and the plan maps.
- Legal basis
- RJIGT, contents of the municipal plan and article 148 on execution units
- Sources
- files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2015/05/09300/0246902512.pdf
- Checked
- 2026-11-05
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