The assessment of sustainability development has become the common part of urban planning practice. So far there are not explicit and operational criteria that would help the public as well as planning offices to assess ex antem the benefits and costs that the planning concepts bring to the territorial and community development. The goal of the research was to create a model that would enable in advance evaluation of the impact of the planning concepts that are operationalized in the forms of planning documents, prescriptions and regulations on the future quality of the environment.