Early this year, minister De Jonge announced his plans to accelerate housing construction. The Netherlands faces a major housing task. The government is committed to realising 900,000 houses by 2030. The average lead time of a...

Who had heard of the Environment Act or even 'environmental law' a few years ago? Meanwhile, the central government is implementing an immense programme to 'better' regulate the Dutch living environment. I am not exaggerating that this is a nationwide change process...

Houseboats are a structure, building a structure (usually) requires an environmental permit and a structure must comply with the 2012 Building Decree. That is what the Administrative Law Division ruled in a ruling on 16 April 2014. And then the...

The little owl is once again creating new case law. The Administrative Law Division tests a zoning plan marginally for feasibility in view of the prohibitions in the Flora and Fauna Act/Bird Directive. The substantive Ff discussion is conducted in the Ff procedure. In general terms, the...

Utrecht is the first city in the Netherlands that plans to establish an environmental zone within which polluting passenger vehicles will be banned. To this end, a subsidy scrapping scheme was introduced for Utrecht residents at the end of December 2013. However, some inhabitants will fall between two...