Land Policy in the Netherlands

Needham, Barrie

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1997.tb01606.x

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“…Local government has traditionally played a strong role in land development in the Netherlands (Needham, 1997). Municipalities generally follow a direct development strategy, i.e.…”

Section: In His Doctoral Thesis Entitled Regulating Land and Pollutiomentioning

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Municipal strategies for introducing housing on industrial estates as part of compact-city policies in the Netherlands

Altes

Tambach

2008

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Promoting mixed-use development is part of policies aimed at enhancing urban quality. Until recently, however, industry and housing have rarely been found together in the same development as there is a long tradition of keeping these functions separate. As part of a compact-city policy, Dutch local authorities are in the process of introducing housing on single-function industrial estates developed after World War II. Local governments are looking for strategies and instruments that will help them to redevelop these sites towards mixed-use areas combining housing and industry. This paper analyzes case studies on the Binckhorst and Plaspoelpolder sites in and around The Hague and the Buiksloterham site in Amsterdam in relation to the following themes: attractiveness of the site as a location for the introduction of housing, the environmental loading caused by combining industry and housing, and municipal strategies for redevelopment of the industrial estates. It was found that traditional amenities such as waterfronts can provide ample potential for housing development; that while there may be plenty of room for housing, much of it will be subject to unacceptable environmental hazards; that a cooperative enforcement style is used to mutual adapt the local interpretation of environmental standards to the interests of the mixed-use areas;; and that in all cases, local government became strongly involved in the property market in order to internalize the external effects of investments in the area.

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“…Local government has traditionally played a strong role in land development in the Netherlands (Needham, 1997). Municipalities generally follow a direct development strategy, i.e.…”

Section: In His Doctoral Thesis Entitled Regulating Land and Pollutiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Municipal strategies for introducing housing on industrial estates as part of compact-city policies in the Netherlands

Altes

Tambach

2008

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“…Growth in the proportion of market-sector housing meant an average increase in disposal prices for serviced land, which resulted in the early acquisition of land by developers at certain locations (Needham, 1997;Korthals Altes, 2000;Raaphorst et al, 1998). For table 1 we have used data on the covenants and the royal decree on location subsidies (Besluit locatiegebonden subsidies) of dwelling growth of the housing stock (Koninklijk Besluit, 1994).…”

Section: Dutch Concentration Policies As Espoused In the Planmentioning

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Stagnation in Housing Production: Another Success in the Dutch ‘Planner's Paradise’?

Altes

2006

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Abstract. There are a number of different criteria for measuring the success of plans in planning. In the planning literature there is a debate about the criterion of conformance (that is, whether spatial development is according to plan) as opposed to performance (that is, whether the plan has shown the way to better decisionmaking), which is, in fact, different from performance measurement. In this paper both criteria are applied to measure the success of Dutch national concentration policies in the``Fourth Memorandum on Spatial PlanningöPlus''. The author shows that the urban containment policies conform well to the plan but perform badly in terms of improving current decisionmaking on the stagnation of housing production in the Netherlands. Moreover, the present stagnation of housing production is planned stagnation. With this result, the author shows that conformance and performance are independent criteria for measuring planning success, and that plans (as set out in the``Fourth Memorandum on Spatial PlanningöPlus'') with high conformance may still perform badly on the performance criterion.

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“…Accordingly, land is offered in good time, for the proper function, with a reasonable price (Needham 1992), and the existence of informal settlements is thus unlikely. -The policy and laws making in the Netherlands allows the participation of diverse actors including the public, stakeholders, and local governments among others: the local governments or municipalities are empowered to lead all the activities at the operational level including land development (Needham 1997, Buitelaar 2010). …”

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“…For the part of the Netherlands component of the literature review, existing literature were reviewed on the Netherlands cadastre (Wakker et al 2003, Zevenbergen 2002, overall governance in general (Kaufmann et al 2010, Huther andShah 1999), land policy (Needham 1997, Buitelaar 2010, land legislation (van Rij and Altes 2010) and spatial planning and mapping (van Rij and Altes 2010). Apart from these, land use data from Enschede was accessed from the ITC Remote Sensing laboratory, University of Twente for illustration purposes.…”

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Land Policy in the Netherlands

Cited by 60 publications

References 2 publications

Municipal strategies for introducing housing on industrial estates as part of compact-city policies in the Netherlands

Municipal strategies for introducing housing on industrial estates as part of compact-city policies in the Netherlands

Stagnation in Housing Production: Another Success in the Dutch ‘Planner's Paradise’?

Urban cadastres for urban land governance

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