Wel of geen welstand; een dilemma : Een handreiking voor gemeenten die hun huidige welstandsbeleid heroverwegen
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2011-05
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Every municipality in the Netherlands has its own Commission on Architecture and the Built Environment
(CABE). This committee advises the municipal government/council/board on aspects
concerning architecture, urban design and public space. In order to improve the transparency
municipalities are obliged to set up a policy document which contains concrete criteria to which
CABE can test building permits. This document is called the ‘welstandsnota’. It is the municipality’s
primary instrument used to promote design and architecture to raise the standard of the
built environment. However, experts are now in debate about the existence of CABE. Many municipalities
wish to see this independent commission disappear due to austerity of municipal
funds and deregulation. In stead municipalities would rather test these building permits to the
criteria of the ‘welstandsnota’ themselves. Nonetheless, the law does not accept this. This has
resulted in the fact that more and more municipalities consider abolishing the ‘welstandnota’ as
well as the CABE. Thus causing them to lose the most important policy instrument that enables
them to influence the quality of the built environment.
This report reflects the current social debate on the CABE and serves primarily as an assessment
framework for municipalities. The underlying research concerns a study on the options that municipalities
have to control the quality of the built environment, including the ‘welstandsnota’.
Many municipalities are afraid that the quality of the built environment will deteriorate when
they abolish this policy document. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to explore the potential
of other planning instruments, which municipalities can use to ensure valuable spatial
characteristics in certain areas.
Ultimately, an overview of the various planning instruments will be given, including the
‘welstandsnota’, which can serve as an assessment framework for municipalities. In this overview,
the (im-) possibilities, advantages and disadvantages of the various planning instruments
will be compared with each other
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen