Taking planning seriously: Compulsory purchase for urban planning in the Netherlands

Legitimacy Dilemmas in Direct Government Intervention: The Case of Public Land Development, an Example from the Netherlands

“…The complexity and significance of the potential interplay between policy instruments and policy aims is often overlooked. It is essential to collaboratively develop a systematical way to better understand this interplay and thence discuss the (sometimes hidden) conflicting values [12,18,19]. This paper puts central the following question: what are the key considerations to recognize and ultimately reduce those legitimacy dilemmas that arise from the application and optimization of direct government policy instruments?…”

Risk management in public land development projects: Comparative case study in Finland, and the Netherlands

“…In the existing literature, public land development has been addressed in many perspectives including the functioning of land and property markets (Needham, 1992;van der Krabben and Lambooy, 1993;Needham, 1997;Needham and Verhage, 1998;Priemus and Louw, 2003;El Araby, 2003;Turk and Korthals Altes, 2010;Yan et al, 2014), efficiency (Roberts, 1975;Lefcoe, 1977;Buitelaar, 2004;Louw, 2008;Korthals Altes, 2010;van der Krabben and Jacobs, 2013), urban governance Tan et al, 2009), competition regulation (Korthals Altes, 2006Tasan-kok and Korthals Altes, 2012;Tasan-kok et al, 2013), connection to land-use planning (Kalbro, 2000;Verhage, 2003;van Rij and Korthals Altes, 2010;van Dijk and van der Vlist, 2015;Hartman and Spit, 2015;Buitelaar and Bregman, 2016), employment of compulsory purchase (Korthals Altes, 2014), contextual changes (Buitelaar, 2010), provision of social housing (Buitelaar and de Kam, 2012), property rights (Havel, 2009;Muñoz Gielen, 2014;Havel, 2014), development negotiations (Samsura et al, 2014(Samsura et al, , 2015Glumac et al, 2015), public accountability (Kang and Korthals Altes, 2015), public value capturing (Passow, 1970;van der Krabben and Needham, 2008;Alterman, 2012), and developer selections…”

Dealing with private property for public purposes : an interdisciplinary study of land transactions from a micro-scale perspective

“…The majority of these studies focus on practises in developing countries, where contexts and problems are fundamentally different than in western countries. Korthals Altes (2014) summarised this difference as the distinction between a focus on property rights to gain insight into ownership constraints versus a focus on planning as harmful activity to owners. The first body of literature aims to gain more insight into land policy, the land market, and land transactions in order to conduct more efficient planning, and consists mainly of literature that is written from a neo-institutional perspective.…”

“…Many developers started to actively acquire land property to anticipate on future developments on agricultural land. In the last decades, both public and private parties have been active on the Dutch land market (Needham, 1997;Korthals Altes, 2014). Between 1993 and 2012, municipalities bought 60.000 hectares of agricultural land .…”

“…The use of CP has decreased over the past few decades due to Chapter 3. The (un)ambiguousness of compulsory purchase compensation the high costs of and negative political views on the instrument (Korthals Altes, 2014;Muñoz-Gielen, 2012;Van Straalen & Korthals Altes, 2014). Economic downfall and considerable governmental losses due to active land policy have started a social and professional debate on active land policy, including CP.…”