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Land use and land take in Flanders, situation 2019
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This report describes the development of the land use file for reference year 2019 for Flanders. It is the result of a progressive development and is based on the combination of the best available spatial information in Flanders (GIS layers and other (spatial) databases). In other words, no specific fieldwork was carried out in the context of drawing up this land use file.
The aim is to carry out at least a 3-yearly update in order to be able to monitor evolutions in land use in Flanders. This based on the best available data layers at that time. It is therefore important that the procedure is up to date and that the underlying data sources are updated at regular intervals. The advantage of this is that the derived products of the land use database can also be updated on a regular basis, so that a consistent time series can be built up for these derived land use maps and indicators as well.
Land take' is such a derived product of the land use database. The concept of 'land take' is defined in the White Paper and in the strategic vision of the Spatial Policy Plan as that part of space in which the biophysical function is no longer the most important one. In other words, it refers to the space occupied by our settlements (i.e. for housing, industrial and commercial purposes, transport infrastructure, recreational purposes and also parks and gardens). To monitor the evolution of additional land take and to steer it towards a situation in which land take no longer increases by 2040, as stated in BRF's strategic vision, we need a consistent time series of data on land take. To this end, a baseline measurement of land take was carried out in 2013, based on the land use database, state of 2013 (Poelmans et al., 2016a, Poelmans et al., 2016b). The concept of land take was concretised and mapped as a direct derivative of the land use database. This report describes the land take update, state 2019.
The aim is to carry out at least a 3-yearly update in order to be able to monitor evolutions in land use in Flanders. This based on the best available data layers at that time. It is therefore important that the procedure is up to date and that the underlying data sources are updated at regular intervals. The advantage of this is that the derived products of the land use database can also be updated on a regular basis, so that a consistent time series can be built up for these derived land use maps and indicators as well.
Land take' is such a derived product of the land use database. The concept of 'land take' is defined in the White Paper and in the strategic vision of the Spatial Policy Plan as that part of space in which the biophysical function is no longer the most important one. In other words, it refers to the space occupied by our settlements (i.e. for housing, industrial and commercial purposes, transport infrastructure, recreational purposes and also parks and gardens). To monitor the evolution of additional land take and to steer it towards a situation in which land take no longer increases by 2040, as stated in BRF's strategic vision, we need a consistent time series of data on land take. To this end, a baseline measurement of land take was carried out in 2013, based on the land use database, state of 2013 (Poelmans et al., 2016a, Poelmans et al., 2016b). The concept of land take was concretised and mapped as a direct derivative of the land use database. This report describes the land take update, state 2019.
Number of pages: 112
Publication year:2021
Accessibility:Open