Sustainable social and economic development of the country, as well as the need to ensure its energy safety requiresthemodernisation of the existing and construction of new transmission devices. The characteristic feature of technicalinfrastructure is its linear nature, i.e. its course through numerous real estates, resulting in limitations imposed on such properties.The limitations differ depending on the stage of the investment process. Such stages include the formal legal stage (designingand collecting appropriate permits and decisions), the investment implementation stage, and the stage of exploitationof transmission devices. Within the first stage, a limitation concerning land development may occur (location of investmentsin planning documents); limitations of the use of land properties always occur in this case (acquisition of a legal title to theland property disposal for building purposes). At the stage of construction, i.e. the investment implementation, limitations relatedto the deterioration of the use of the land property may appear. The third stage may involve limitations connected withthe presence of transmission devices in the space of the land property, i.e. limitations which result from the actual use of theland property by the transmission company.

The objective of this paper is to identify limitations imposed on land properties resulting from the construction and exploitationof transmission infrastructure in Poland.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/enviro.2017.236