Challenges for Land Development in Flanders

Celen, Griet

Although the land development practice was in continuous change the last 50 years to meet the socio-cultural and economic needs of the time, the last years there is a shift going on of a different magnitude. There is an ever-increasing number of spatial conflicts and a demand for a wide range of solutions in the field. There is also a demand for short-term projects to anticipate on current questions of policy makers. To meet this wide range of questions and to come with quick results on the field, there was a constant search in making the existing instruments (land consolidation, land development, land development for nature) more modular and more flexible. The Flemish Land Agency developed also new and very flexible instruments without legal procedures (demand driven project initiation, land banking, project implementation based on contracts). To complete the possibilities the responsible minister wants to create a new law which makes it possible to work with tools for plots-exchange, land reallocation and compensation payments, in a modular and a sector-neutral way.

Event: UNECE WPLA Workshop Effective and Sustainable Land Management : A Permanent Challenge for Each Society

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