The object of the study is the social relations that arise in the field of urban development. Purpose: to define, on the basis of generalization of scientific works of scientists, analysis of current legislation and practice of its implementation, the nature and features of administrative and legal bases of control and supervision in the field of town-planning activity and to outline directions of improvement of the relevant administrative legislation. Methods: general scientific and special legal methods of cognition, in particular, dialectical, systemic-structural, comparative-legal, logical-semantic, formal-logical, historical, sociological, statistical methods, modeling method, etc. Theoretical and practical results, scientific novelty: the expediency of unification at the legislative level of the issue of supervision and control in the field of urban development activities and a clear definition of their types, delineation of the circle of subjects of implementation, boundaries and specifics of supervision and control within the framework of a single regulatory document; proposed under the subject of control and supervision in the field of urban planning to understand the totality of legal, organizational and other phenomena arising in the process of urban development activities, which are directed control and supervisory activities of authorized entities in the research area; the importance of administrative procedures of control and supervision in the field of urban development activity is established, the importance of compliance of which is that control and supervisory entities carry out their activities more consistently, qualitatively and quickly and exclusively within their competence, and for the controlled object of compliance with such procedures are an important preventative measure to prevent the violation of their rights. Practical significance: the provisions obtained from the research carried out in the dissertation can be used in: research area, as a basis for further research of administrative and legal principles of control and supervision in the field of urban development; in law-making, in the course of clarifying and supplementing the existing legislative and regulatory acts regulating the issues of control and supervision in the field of urban development; in law enforcement activities to increase the effectiveness of control and supervision in urban development. Scope: in the educational process during the preparation of textbooks and manuals in the disciplines "Administrative Law", "Administrative Activities", "Court and Law Enforcement Agencies"; they are already used in the course of these subjects at Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. They are also taken into account in the educational and methodological developments prepared by the author.
