Medium-sized plans

Medium-sized plans often affect your street or neighborhood. It is therefore advisable to involve your neighborhood in your plan. Also, medium-sized plans often do not fit within the rules of the municipality. By informing and involving local residents in your plan, you can answer questions, get ideas and address any concerns that may arise.

Examples of medium-sized plans

  • Construction of one or more dwellings
  • Making an egress on the municipal road
  • Transforming a store into a home
  • Changing a company residence to a regular residence

Form of participation

  • Personal interview
  • Leaflet or flyer
  • Mail or letter
  • Group app
  • Information meeting

Roadmap

The following is a roadmap for participation in medium-sized plans.

1. Determine if you need a permit for your plan.

What is legally possible, does your idea fit within the environmental plan, what policies do you need to take into account, and may a procedure need to be followed? Your immediate environment may also ask about this. You can find this information on the page about the Omgevingswet

2. Contact the municipality, inform the municipality about your plan.

For medium-sized plans that do not fit into the environmental plan, it is advisable to
first submit a so-called request in principle.

3. Determine your environment: who should I talk to about my plan?

For a medium-sized plan, this could include your immediate neighbors, the entire street or surrounding streets.

4. How do you engage with the environment?

You can visit in person and inform those affected about the plan. It is also possible to send an e-mail or flyer. People often find a personal conversation more pleasant, so you can also organize an information meeting about the plan.

5. Make a record of all responses.

This creates an overview of all tips, interests, concerns and ideas. A sample report can be found in the appendix of this roadmap.

6. Circulate the report to all persons you have involved in the plan.

Ask stakeholders if they agree with the report

7. Adapting the plan or not?

Those involved may have provided tips on how to improve the plan. It is your choice whether or not to modify your plan.

8. Submitting the application.

You indicate whether or not you have had a conversation with the environment. If you did, you also attach the report. This will state with whom the conversation was held and the results.

9. Township assessment.

The plan is tested against the rules that apply within the municipality. In addition, the municipality looks at whether it has talked to the surrounding area and what has come out of that.