The aim of this paper was to analyze the extent of checkerboard land in order to determine the priority ranking of areas intended for land consolidation works, in the municipality Sławno, in the Lodz region. A prerequisite to qualify the village for land consolidation, according to the Law of 26 March 1982 year by merging and exchange of land (Dz. U. z 2003r. Nr 178 pos. 1749 as amended), Is to collect more than 50% of signatures owners. On the other hand guiding principle for the qualification of the village to merge, within the framework of the program, the highest percentage of owners of acceding to this step. A common hurdle while collecting signatures from landowners, is that some of them live outside the village analyzed (land of non-resident owners plots).For picking areas for land consolidation works in the villages of the municipality Sławno, due to the size checkerboard land determined and calculated 9 factors characterizing each village. These factors were: x1 -% of land farms, X2 -% number of plots in the private sector, x3 - the number of inhabitants, x4 - the number of non-resident owners plots, x5 - the number of plots of non-resident owners plots, x6 ...
The article presents the size of the land being in checkerboard of land in the villages of the municipality Sławno, located in central Poland, Lodz province. The analysis included the surface, the number of parcels and the number of owners. The study was performed by checkerboard array capable of identifying the prevalence of land by non-residents and local residents. Such an approach allows the determination of the exchange of land between them and their liquidation in the process of land consolidation works. The genesis of the phenomenon checkerboard of land is closely linked to historical facts. As a result of the acquisition method of recording the factual and legal land from invaders countries, in the late nineteenth century, in the cadastre Polish notes to this day many inaccuracies. Some of them are the result of differences in the definitions of cadastral objects under Austrian rule, Prussian and Russian and specific rights of inheritance of land. Polish territory is variation in the severity and the shape and dimensions of the checkerboard land. So we can say that examined the phenomenon is local which determines the aforementioned geographical and historical factors. ...
