Middle-segment housing by implementing passive land policyMiddle-policy: An exploratory case study on how middle-segment housing is developed by using land-use instruments in wicked problems and with low municipal landownership

The Dutch housing market has a shortage and especially a shortage in its middle-segment between, low-income, social housing, and higher-income, homeownership. Because of this, municipalities have become more active in creating middle-segment housing, but most Dutch municipalities have few land positions which has urged them to create middle...

Strategizing Towards Agreements That Create And Capture Added Value: A mixed method exploratory case study to guide future area developments in a neo-liberal urban landscape

The urban challenges of today are plentiful. A million houses need to be built in the next decade, urban development needs to allow for climate adaptation and contribute to the energy transition. It needs to ensure sustainable economic growth potential in a circular and social economic fashion. The active forms of land policy that where standard...

Land for housing: Quantitative targets and qualitative ambitions in Dutch housing development

The struggle of cities to achieve quantitative housing objectives can partly be explained by the struggle to cope with increasing value conflicts with other (qualitative) policy objectives, including the realization of affordable housing, climate adaptive areas, inclusive neighborhoods, and high-quality public spaces. In public debate in the...

Land Policy for Rural Development in the European Union and its Impact on Access to Land

The concentration of farmland has potentially a negative impact on planning for local rural development as it impedes access to land for other rural initiatives. Land policies in the European Union aiming to reserve lands for local communities are constrained by principles of the EU single market, such as the free movement of capital and the...

The Use of Financial Contributions in Practice: An explorative study analysing the implementation of negotiable developer obligations in the Netherlands.

Public services are an essential part of urban development projects. Usually, municipalities aim to recover the costs of these services from developers that initiate projects that benefit from these services. Many countries have implemented various value capturing instruments to be able to achieve this. However, only fragmented data is available...

Financiële gegevens bouwgrondexploitatie gemeenten: Cijfers tot en met 4e kwartaal 2020 (1e plaatsing)

Volgens voorlopige cijfers hebben gemeenten in 2020 een positief resultaat van ruim een miljard euro gerealiseerd op grondexploitaties. Dit saldo bestaat voor zo een 30% uit een positief resultaat op investeringen in fysieke bedrijfsinfrastructuur en voor 70% uit grondexploitaties voor woningbouw. Dit resultaat is beduidend hoger dan in de...

Active versus Passive Land Policies: Urban area development in the Netherlands from a Municipal Perspective

The Dutch institutional system for urban development has traditionally been known for its implementation of active land policy by municipalities. This is an approach to land development that includes a municipality acquiring land, servicing it with infrastructure and public amenities and disposing it to a real estate developer, in which the...

Land-policy instruments for densification: the Dutch quest for control

Land-policy instruments are important to local governments for the implementation of densification. This article explores the factors behind local governments’ motives that determine the use of specific land-policy instruments to achieve densification. The aim is to increase understanding of how available land-policy instruments are applied in...

Strategies of municipal land policies: housing development in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands

How do municipalities strategically use land policy to develop land for housing? The development of housing is a challenge for many European countries, though the scale and time of it differs. Issues are not always about the absolute number of houses that need to be supplied in a country. The distribution and quality of houses affect the demand...

Financiele gegevens bouwgrondexploitatie gemeenten: Cijfers tot en met 4e kwartaal 2018 (1e plaatsing)

Volgens voorlopige cijfers hebben gemeenten in 2018 een positief resultaat van één en een kwart miljard euro gerealiseerd op grondexploitaties. Dit saldo bestaat voor een kwart miljard euro uit een positief resultaat op investeringen in fysieke bedrijfsinfrastructuur en voor een miljard euro uit grondexploitaties voor woningbouw. Dit resultaat...

Land pricing upon the extension of leases in public leasehold systems

Purpose: This paper aims to compare and review alternative ways to adjust public ground leases. Design/methodology/approach: Based on principles derived from a review of scientific literature, alternatives for the extension of leases are discussed based on the case of Amsterdam. Findings: Many alternatives lead public ground-lease systems to...

Financiële gegevens bouwgrondexploitaties: Financiële gegevens bouwgrondexploitatie gemeenten tot en met 3e kwartaal 2017 (1e plaatsing)

De grondverkopen op het gebied van bouwgrondexploitatie zijn met 25,6% gestegen naar € 1,3 miljard over de eerste 9 maanden van 2017. Het resultaat van gemeentelijke grondexploita-ties is 5,6% hoger dan over dezelfde periode in 2016. Ongeveer 1/5 van de grondverkopen is bedoeld voor bedrijventerreinen. Hiervan is bijna de helft (47%) verkocht in...

Financiële gegevens bouwgrondexploitaties: Jaarcijfers 2016 en financiële gegevens 2e kwartaal bouw-grondexploitatie gemeenten 2017 (1e plaatsing)

De opbrengsten van de grondverkopen van gemeenten zijn in 2016 voor het derde opeen-volgende jaar gestegen. Er is sprake van een stijging van 13% ten opzichte van de verkoop in 2015.<br/>Het in 2016 geboekte resultaat van grondexploitaties is € 390 miljoen positief. Dit is 30% lager dan het resultaat in 2015. Het voorzichtiger zijn met het...

The Land Administration Domain Model Standard

LADM is a international standard for the land administration domain. It will stimulate the development of software applications and will accelerate the implementation of proper land administration systems that will support sustainable development. The LADM covers basic information-related components of land administration (including those over...

The Land Administration Domain Model Standard

LADM is a international standard for the land administration domain. It will stimulate the development of software applications and will accelerate the implementation of proper land administration systems that will support sustainable development. The LADM covers basic information-related components of land administration (including those over...

Key Considerations for the Adaptation of the STDM for the OECS Member States

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), with the assistance of the Australian government’s aid agency, AusAID, and UNHabitat, is currently working on developing regional land policy guidelines that will address the most critical land issues being faced by the countries, not the least of which is the impending impact of climate...

Effects of land policy on hybrid rural-urban development patterns and resilience: A case study of the territorial development in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region

This article aims to provide planners and policy makers with a better understanding about potential impacts of land policy on the shaping of hybrid rural-urban development patterns and their effects on resilience enhancement of urban systems. It examines the impacts of diverse development policies applied to two selected areas in the Bangkok...