Participation in re-allotment

Marije Louwsma

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Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency

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and re-allotment

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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)

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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

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Result of re-allotment: an example

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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

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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

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Economic benefits agriculture (dairy farm)

Cost reduction (€/ha/year)

€ 0

€ 100

€ 200

€ 300

€ 400

€ 500

€ 600

€ 700

Insufficient toexcellent

Insufficient togood

Insufficient toaverage

Insufficient toacceptable

Improvement re-allotment

Large (80 ha)

Medium (40 ha)

Small (25 ha)

Size of farm

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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

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Current process

1. Co-ordinator speaks individually with landowners to

investigate the willingness to participate

2. Repeated individual meetings to talk through

possibilities for land exchange

3. Development of land exchange proposals

4. Rounding off proposals & financial consequences

5. Agreement of participants

6. Deed by notary

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New participative process

1. Individual intake land owner2. Public meeting to inform land owners3. Interactive group sessions with land owners to

design new allotment (multiple parallel sessions)4. Second interactive group session:

• Final proposals & financial consequences• Discuss necessity of permits

5. Agreement of participants6. Deed by notary

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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

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Preparation of interactive sessions

• Prepare geo-data

• Select participants in project area

• Divide participants in smaller groups for parallel

sessions

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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

wished by 3 persons

wished by 2 persons

wished by 1 person

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Each land owner receives a map

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Data management system

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Administrative overview per land owner

Personal information land owner

Difference in hectares between old and new allotment

Amount to pay / get

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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

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Questions?