The subject of this article is an analysis of updating lands use in process of preparation and setting out of roads investments. In order to determine the proper range of land use the terms of road and road right-of-way were compared. With an example of selected roads investments from capital city of Warsaw area, it has been investigated the time consumption of changing existing lad use in cadastre. The complex of factors having impact on possibilities of changing former land use on needs for elaboration of serveying documentation and registering by administrative power running cadastre were detarmined . Documents being basis for making change in land use and in cadastre for "roads", independently from investment fullfilment course in investment within range of roads, have been examined. There were presented two solutions , differing in moment of making change of land use long-lasting process of road construction. On the basis of SWOT analysis one identified strong and weak points of each approved solution. Consequences of out-of-date cadastre data have been determined. Land use updating importance for spatial planning was stressed. Regulation cohering was proposed in order to unify land use verification procedure in pursued investment. ...