Rural and urban land management : the role of the Netherlands' government as policy maker and land owner
Molen, Paul van der & Louisa J.M. Jansen
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This paper discusses the changes that took place in recent years considering the spatial planning policy in the Netherlands. This appears to concur with a major shift in governance philosophyy, namely from a strongly centralised planning and implementation towards the paradigm locally when possible, centrally when necessaryy. In a densily populated country the central government has, of course, to safeguard national spatial interests, (these are explicitely summarised in the so-called National Spatial Structuree), while the provinces are assigned a central role in translating national interests into local policy. This translation is executed in so-called structural visionss. At implementation level, the municipalities have a certain freedom to develop the local zoning plans as they deem best in the local situation. The existing approval procedures, through which the central government kept control over zoning plans, is now abolished. Where previously every ministry pursued its own policy targets and its own subsidy mechanisms, these are now bundled in integrated investment budgets for both urban and rural areas that are allocated according to multi-annual agreements between the different layers of government. When the government is in need of landownership for the realisation of its purposes, the previously existing situation, in which distinguished ministries were each others competitors in the land market, is now regulated through a coordinating body of all land-owning large central government bodies. This coordination leads to less distortion of the land market. Llandownership is registered in the land register and cadastre. However, according to the law, the state is an owner similar to any other private ownerr. Therefore a separate state land cadastre does not exist. Land-owning government bodies use their own GIS for their own business purposes..
Event: International Land Management Symposium
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