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Participation in re-allotment Marije Louwsma. Cables and pipelines. Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency. and re-allotment. Introduction. Land consolidation is a planned readjustment and rearrangement of land parcels and their ownership. Specific law:
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Cables and pipelines Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency and re-allotment
Introduction • Land consolidation is a planned readjustment and rearrangement of land parcels and their ownership. • Specific law: • Land Consolidation Act (till 2007) • Rural areas development Act (from 2007) • Two instruments: • Land consolidation (formal process) • Re-allotment (voluntary)
Principles of re-allotment • Voluntary participation • Exchange of parcels between landowners: • Private landowners • Public landowners • Spatial aims: • Agriculture • Clustering of parcels • Enlarging the parcel with farm buildings • Reduction of distance to parcels • Improve shape of parcels • Water management • Implement environmental policies
Why cadastre is involved • To guarantee legal certainty • Experience with handling geo-information in complex processes • Tailored software to support re-allotment process • Thourough knowledge about land consolidation and re-allotment
Trends in spatial planning and land consolidation • Decentralisation of tasks • from national to regional level • Budget cuts • especially on nature restoration • Role government shifts from initiating towards facilitating: • Shift from top-down to bottom up processes • Tendency to give stakeholders more responsibility • Availability of e-governance applications with geo-information
Economic benefits agriculture (dairy farm) Size of farm
Trends require change re-allotment process Need for: • Active participation of stakeholders • Quick process • Clear results within limited period of time • Insight in economic benefits for agricultural sector
Current process • Co-ordinator speaks individually with landowners to investigate the willingness to participate • Repeated individual meetings to talk through possibilities for land exchange • Development of land exchange proposals • Rounding off proposals & financial consequences • Agreement of participants • Deed by notary
New participative process • Individual intake land owner • Public meeting to inform land owners • Interactive group sessions with land owners to design new allotment (multiple parallel sessions) • Second interactive group session: • Final proposals & financial consequences • Discuss necessity of permits • Agreement of participants • Deed by notary
GIS supports new process • New application developed in GIS • Starting points for development: • expert user • immaculate administration of re-allotment needed • delivers products for land owners (maps, administrative overview) • delivers administration needed for deed • Characteristics: • developed ‘on the job’ • adequate functionality • user friendly • workspace per project phase
Preparation of interactive sessions • Prepare geo-data • Select participants in project area • Divide participants in smaller groups for parallel sessions
wished by 3 persons wished by 2 persons wished by 1 person Interactive group session Land owners are asked the following: • Indicate if parcel available for re-allotment (yes / no) • Let know your wishes regarding new allotment • Discuss possibilities for exchange
Administrative overview per land owner Personal information land owner Difference in hectares between old and new allotment Amount to pay / get
Conclusions • Development of application ‘on the job’ worked very nicely • Application adequately facilitates participative process with multiple parallel sessions • First results are promising: • Participants are satisfied with participation • Achieved improvement is equal to regular process • Within short time results available