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...
