Gminne akty planowania przestrzennego jako instrumenty ochrony zabytków nieruchomych

The protection of immovable monuments requires a proper spatial planning policy. Of particular importance are communal acts of spatial planning, which ensure the protection of immovable monuments previously covered by various forms of protection and included in the communal register of monuments, but also independently create the protection regime. The aim of the article is to analyse to what extent such acts in the Polish spatial planning system constitute instruments of protection of immovable monuments and how they strengthen the system of monument protection. It discusses, among other things, conservation protection zones. The article also refers to the issue of determining the principles and conditions for the location of billboards and advertising devices, small architectural objects and fences, as well as numerous interpretational doubts related to this issue.