The article is devoted to the coverage of trends in the development of scientific research of the legal regime of residential and public lands in Ukraine. It is determined that the specifics of legal regulation of land use within settlements, as a broader category, which includes land for public and residential development, due to their functional purpose (territorial basis for the location of urban planning, production forces, social and other production) and is determined by the norms of land legislation with a combination of town-planning requirements both for the organization of the whole territory and its separate parts. It is concluded that in the land law of Ukraine there is a large number of scientific works devoted to the analysis of certain aspects of the legal regime of lands of settlements. The subject of these studies are: a) the legal regime of land settlements; b) the legal regime of certain components of the lands of settlements (residential and public buildings, industrial zones, green zones within settlements, lands of united territorial communities, etc.); c) certain elements of the legal regime of lands of settlements or problems of their realization (zoning, observance of town-planning legislation, maintenance of ecological safety at planning and building of territories, etc.). At the same time, there is currently no comprehensive study of the legal regime of lands within settlements, which would combine the analysis of land legal norms and norms of urban planning legislation.
science of land law, legal regime of lands, lands of housing and public buildings, lands of settlements, town-planning legislation