Including participation requirements into planning law
This paper analyses how ambitions to enhance participation in spatial planning decisions were translated into the new Environment and Planning Act in the Netherlands that took effect in 2024. The study analysed the various ambitions for enhancing participation and compared the participation require...
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Politecnico di Torino
2025-07-01
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This paper analyses how ambitions to enhance participation in spatial planning decisions were translated into the new Environment and Planning Act in the Netherlands that took effect in 2024. The study analysed the various ambitions for enhancing participation and compared the participation requirements before and after the legal reform. The study showed that participation requirements hardly changed. Despite ambitions to enhance participation through new legislation, new rules have been formulated that however do not regulate the content of the participation process beyond the requirement that were into force before the new act took effect. The study shows that the formulation of legal rules concerning participation was strongly influenced by overly optimistic expectations about possible positive effects of participation, while no attention was given to the conditions that are needed to ensure that these positive effects indeed materialise. This makes it debatable that a desired improvement of participation comes about.
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| spelling | doaj-art-f6c8a3cb3dd742d5bd8394b5d7906db22025-08-20T03:51:09ZengPolitecnico di TorinoEuropean Journal of Spatial Development1650-95442025-07-0122110.5281/zenodo.16091834Including participation requirements into planning lawDaniel Hollemans0Saskia Bisschops1Raoul Beunen2Open University, Faculty of Sciences, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT, Heerlen, the NetherlandsOpen University, Faculty of Sciences, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT, Heerlen, the NetherlandsOpen University, Faculty of Sciences, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT, Heerlen, the Netherlands This paper analyses how ambitions to enhance participation in spatial planning decisions were translated into the new Environment and Planning Act in the Netherlands that took effect in 2024. The study analysed the various ambitions for enhancing participation and compared the participation requirements before and after the legal reform. The study showed that participation requirements hardly changed. Despite ambitions to enhance participation through new legislation, new rules have been formulated that however do not regulate the content of the participation process beyond the requirement that were into force before the new act took effect. The study shows that the formulation of legal rules concerning participation was strongly influenced by overly optimistic expectations about possible positive effects of participation, while no attention was given to the conditions that are needed to ensure that these positive effects indeed materialise. This makes it debatable that a desired improvement of participation comes about. https://journals.polito.it/index.php/EJSD/article/view/442law development, participation, planning law, planning reform. |
| spellingShingle | Daniel Hollemans Saskia Bisschops Raoul Beunen Including participation requirements into planning law European Journal of Spatial Development law development, participation, planning law, planning reform. |
| title | Including participation requirements into planning law |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Including participation requirements into planning law |
| title_short | Including participation requirements into planning law |
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| topic | law development, participation, planning law, planning reform. |
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