By Municipal Board Resolution (Delibera di Giunta Comunale, DGC) No. 1358 of 6 November 2025, the Municipality of Milan approved the guidelines for the initiation of the partial amendment to the Territorial Government Plan (PGT), simultaneously revoking the previous DGC No. 496/2023, which had launched the comprehensive review of the PGT.
The Municipal Board also issued transitional provisions to the municipal offices concerning the application of the rules governing deviations from morphological requirements.
The full text of the resolution is available here.
SI – Studio Inzaghi remains available for any further information or clarification.
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With Municipal Board Resolution No. 1358 of 6 November 2025, the Municipality of Milan approved the guidelines for initiating the partial amendment to the Territorial Government Plan (PGT), which will update the Implementation Rules of the Plan of Rules and the Plan of Services.
The purpose of this initiative is to bring Milan’s urban planning framework into alignment with recent regional and national provisions, address certain implementation issues, and simplify administrative procedures pending the forthcoming general amendment, whose timing does not allow short-term solutions to current criticalities. At the same time, the previous resolution launching the comprehensive review of the PGT (DGC No. 496/2023) has been revoked.
In summary, the new amendment process will pursue the following key objectives:
- Align the implementation procedures of the Plan of Rules with the most recent municipal provisions (DGC 552/2025 and DD 4192/2025).
- Provide a clear and unambiguous geometric definition of the courtyard as a morphological element.
- Clarify the procedures for transferring building rights through equalisation, including within areas subject to detailed planning.
- Restrict deviations from morphological rules to detailed planning procedures, supported by comparative analyses between project and urban context.
- Align the landscape provisions of the Plan of Rules with the Cultural Heritage Code (Legislative Decree 42/2004), clarifying the role and binding effect of opinions issued by the Landscape Commission.
- Define the administrative process for introducing building rights in municipal areas and for interventions in Squares and Transport Hubs, to be carried out through detailed planning.
- Limit changes of use of car parks and garages, preserving their original function.
- Update the provisions on Social Housing (ERS), specifying the types of social housing permitted.
- Allow the development of ERS above the base index only where consistent with morphological requirements or, in duly justified cases, within detailed planning processes, ensuring the necessary provision of services.
- Adapt the rules governing commercial activities to new and subsequent legislation.
- Ensure the protection of rural buildings, prohibiting demolition and promoting the conservation of historical building stock.
- Update the planning framework for Parco Nord Milano areas, harmonising competences between the Municipality and the Park Authority.
- Revise transitional and final provisions to ensure regulatory consistency.
- Adapt the service provision standards for public and private facilities, in line with urban needs.
- Ensure morphological compliance for interventions on private facilities under agreement and on accessory areas (excluding public services).
- Define procedures for updating the Plan of Services in cases of decommissioning, relocation, or integration of public and general-interest services, both on public and private properties.
Pending approval of the regulatory amendment to the PGT, the Municipal Board has also issued transitional instructions for the application of the rules governing deviations from morphological requirements (Articles 19 §§ 4–5, 21 § 8, 23 § 4 of the Implementation Rules of the current Plan of Rules).
Specifically:
- Deviations from morphological rules must be interpreted and applied with utmost caution, ensuring coherent and harmonious urban development.
- Each request for derogation must be thoroughly justified and assessed by the competent offices and the Landscape Commission, which must issue detailed opinions on the landscape and environmental consistency of the projects.
- Until the approval of the amendment, deviations may be authorised only within detailed planning procedures, in accordance with DGC 552/2025 and DD 4192/2025, and must be supported by a technical and morphological report.
- In all other cases, derogations may be granted only where the height of existing buildings is respected and following a detailed review by the competent offices, based on a typo-morphological and architectural analysis of the urban context.
- Where inconsistency or deterioration of the urban context is identified, the offices may deny the request for deviation, even without seeking the opinion of the Landscape Commission.
The resolution also provides for the initiation of the related screening procedure for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and the publication of the notice of commencement in local newspapers, on the municipal website, on the official register (Albo Pretorio), in the BURL and on the SIVAS platform.
Within 30 days of publication, citizens and stakeholders may submit suggestions and proposals.