Dutch land-use planning : the principles and the practice / by Barrie Needham

1. Setting the scene : the underlying land and the underlying attitudes --
2. How the Dutch want their land to be used : the content of Dutch spatial planning policy --
3. The planning agencies, their land-use plans, and how they use them : the formal system for land-use planning --
4. The statutory powers for realising those land-use plans: and how they are used --
5. Realising the land-use ambitions in practice : pro-active planning : making things happen --
6. Pro-active planning in practice : examples of the types of projects being realised in this way --
7. Obligations on planning agencies : and how those agencies take account of them --
8. An assessment of dutch spatial planning : how good is Dutch planning?

Dutch planning is widely known and admired for its ambitions and its achievements. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description and analysis in English of its full range of policies and practices. It gives an up-to-date account of the principles - written and unwritten - behind the planning, and in addition shows how the practice sometimes ignores those principles in order to achieve better results. It describes the content of the policies, the measures taken to realise them, and the successes and failures. The book is not uncritical of Dutch land-use planning, but the a.